{"id":15292,"date":"2025-10-12T19:29:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T19:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/?p=15292"},"modified":"2026-01-16T16:39:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T16:39:00","slug":"campus-safety-officer-earns-slp-white-coat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2025\/10\/12\/campus-safety-officer-earns-slp-white-coat\/","title":{"rendered":"Campus Safety Officer earns SLP white coat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"dslc-theme-content\"><div id=\"dslc-theme-content-inner\">\n<p>By Brielle Krepps \u201926, staff writer&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">For 25 years, Campus Safety Officer Laura Latchford has watched LVC students pursue their dreams; now, she\u2019s pursuing her own.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Latchford received her white coat for Speech-Language Pathology in August. The White Coat Ceremony marked the transition to graduate studies for Speech-Language Pathology majors.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the most memorable moments for Latchford was walking across the stage alongside her fellow students and research partners.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt just gave it such a sense of reality,\u201d Latchford said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Latchford first dreamt of becoming a Speech-Language Pathologist when she witnessed the positive impact a clinician had on a family member. That was nearly twenty years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When LVC introduced the Speech Pathology Program in 2017, Latchford was overjoyed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy kids are getting older now, so now I can go out into the world and be able to make that dream of changing people\u2019s lives come true,\u201d Latchford said. \u201cI am willing to help people however I can.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a Campus Safety Officer and a part-time student, Latchford knows she has to be efficient with her time. Latchford credits her work in public safety with allowing her the space to balance both.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have a fabulous crew,\u201d she said. \u201cThe support system allows me to get the things done that I need to at night.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Latchford is expected to graduate in 2028. Students can still expect to see Latchford as a Campus Safety Officer for the time being.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>By Brielle Krepps \u201926, staff writer&nbsp; For 25 years, Campus Safety Officer Laura Latchford has watched LVC students pursue their dreams; now, she\u2019s pursuing her own.&nbsp; Latchford received her white coat for Speech-Language Pathology in <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2025\/10\/12\/campus-safety-officer-earns-slp-white-coat\/\" title=\"Campus Safety Officer earns SLP white coat\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15292","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-features","8":"category-front-page","9":"category-homepage"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15345,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15292\/revisions\/15345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}