Every benefit your veterans earned runs through your office. NAVPA equips 400+ member institutions with the compliance training, legislative advocacy, and peer network to make sure nothing falls through the cracks.
Behind every veteran using the GI Bill, there's a school certifying official making it work. For over 50 years, NAVPA — built and run entirely by volunteers — has made sure those professionals have the training, the representation in Washington, and the nationwide community to deliver without fail.
We exist because your work is too important and too complex to do without backup.
VA regulations change every year — new circulars, updated audit criteria, shifting enrollment rules. NAVPA's workshops, webinars, and professional development programs keep you ahead of what's coming, so the benefits your students earned are never held up by a change your office didn't see coming.
Explore training →When Congress debates GI Bill funding, when the VA revises certification procedures, when the Department of Education rewrites accountability standards — NAVPA is in the room. We've represented school certifying officials in Washington since 1975, because the people who process these benefits deserve a seat at the table where the rules are written.
See our advocacy →An audit notice lands on your desk. A regulation you've never encountered. A student case that doesn't fit any playbook. Across NAVPA's 8-region network, an experienced colleague has already handled it — and will pick up the phone. That's not a perk of membership. It's the point.
Join the network →Sheraton Dallas Hotel — October 19–21, 2026
Three days. Hundreds of the sharpest VA education benefit professionals in the country. Compliance workshops you'll use the following Monday. Legislative briefings from the people writing the bills. Peer roundtables where real problems get real solutions. For 51 consecutive years, this is where school certifying officials come to get better at the work that matters most.
GI Bill enhancements. Institutional accountability. Student protections during benefit transitions. See the bills NAVPA is advancing on Capitol Hill this session and what each one means for your office.
View prioritiesBuilt for the meeting with your dean or budget committee. One page: mission, benefits, 50 years of results. Everything a decision-maker needs to say yes.
Download PDFOur 2025 analysis documents how shutdowns disrupted VA benefit processing, delayed student payments, and created certification backlogs — plus the contingency steps every SCO office should have ready now.
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