Contact your local Parish Veterans Service Officer to apply. The Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs runs the program, not the school.

• You are the child, spouse or surviving spouse of a veteran who died while serving in the U.S. Armed Forces, died from a service-connected disability incurred during a wartime period, was declared missing in action or a prisoner of war, or has a service-connected disability rating of at least 90 percent or is declared unemployable because of that disability
• If the veteran was declared missing in action or a prisoner of war, you are the spouse, and if the veteran is living with a 90 percent or unemployable rating, you are a child
• The veteran was a Louisiana resident for at least 12 months immediately before entering the U.S. Armed Forces if deceased, or for at least 12 months immediately before your admission to the program if living
• If you are the surviving spouse, you use the benefit within 10 years of the date you became eligible
• If you are a child, you are between the ages of 16 and 25