National Defence committee  I have several women peers on my peer load. Of course I'm female myself. It just goes to show that as we discussed earlier, OSI knows no trade, no rank, no gender, no race.

National Defence committee  From my perspective, I didn't have a difficult time coming forward once I figured out what was going on with me. I have quite a number of women I work with on a daily basis.

National Defence committee  The decision on whether someone is deployable or not is a medical decision, obviously. Is it reversible? Yes, it is. Some people have been diagnosed with different conditions on temporary categories and they get treated and get better and they can be redeployed. So yes, it is,

National Defence committee  Currently I have 89 active cases that I'm working on. However, at any moment.... I could go home tomorrow and ten of those inactive may be active now, and I may have eight e-mails and four voice mails and more referrals from within the office. That number changes quite regularly.

National Defence committee  Also, in Cyprus there are five briefings that the troops have to attend. There's one mandatory--battle mind--that everybody has to do, and then on the second day there are four, out of which they have to choose two. The briefings were battle mind, as I said; healthy relationships

National Defence committee  Part of our job as peer support coordinators, sir, is we are mandated to see psychologists. Every year we have to get a medical screening from our psychologist, saying that we are still able to do this. As well, we have self-care calls once a month with a psychologist at St. Anne

National Defence committee  You knew there were three. I will try to remember. I guess on one part of your question about the coming back to work and if that's making it harder, in my area the majority of the people I deal with are already out of the military. They're coming forward now, and I think a lot

National Defence committee  That's correct, yes; it's 197.

National Defence committee  It does take a lot of time and a lot of effort. I do have one very good trained volunteer. Our volunteers, of course, also have suffered OSIs and are at a point in their recovery at which they're able to help out on a limited basis. It's a huge client base, but there's really no

National Defence committee  Hi, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Cyndi Greene. I too am from Newfoundland and Labrador. I was born and raised in a small town of 150 people called Pinware on the southern shore. I joined the regular force in 1989, immediately after high school. I was a cook for 15 years. In