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Veterans Affairs committee Carlos, do you want to speak to that?
June 12th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. David Pedlar
Veterans Affairs committee I'll start. We've been engaged with the institute from the very beginning. We've supported it in the ways that I've mentioned. In addition to the ways that I've mentioned, we also work with them on research applications to group organizations such as the Canadian Institutes of
June 12th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. David Pedlar
Veterans Affairs committee Is it okay if I take this?
June 12th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. David Pedlar
Veterans Affairs committee The study was undertaken to get an understanding of the transition experience from military service to civilian life, as well as to understand the health and well-being of veterans after they're released from service. One of the limitations of work we've done in the past is that
June 12th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. David Pedlar
Veterans Affairs committee There were two main pieces. It was a linkage study where we were able to identify with a list of all the released members, which was provided by the Department of National Defence/Canadian Forces. One study that focused on income over a 10-year period was linked by Statistics Can
June 12th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. David Pedlar
Veterans Affairs committee Yes. The high-level findings were that there was a lot of variation in transition experience, but some people did have a difficult transition. With respect to income, veterans were less likely to experience low income than the Canadian population. They're about half as likely to
June 12th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. David Pedlar
Veterans Affairs committee Right. There was a relatively low rate of those who were using provincial social assistance programs. I think it was rarely more than 1% or 2% in any given year. However, some veterans experienced challenges. Some of them had changes in income upon release. Those who experience
June 12th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. David Pedlar
Veterans Affairs committee If I could address that as well, I want to build on Dr. Sareen's remarks. He mentioned the Chez Soi project. It's a large-scale demonstration pilot around an intervention for homelessness at four or five sites across the country. We've been engaged in that since the very beginnin
June 12th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. David Pedlar
Veterans Affairs committee Thank you very much. It's a pleasure to be back before committee, this time to talk to you about how research work at Veterans Affairs is primarily conducted in partnership with various departments and organizations to strengthen our collective understanding of the health and we
June 12th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. David Pedlar
Veterans Affairs committee Actually, I don't have that information.
February 14th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. David Pedlar
Veterans Affairs committee I'm not, but we are very interested in income, probably for similar reasons. We look at income in two ways. We look at total income, but also at changes in income as dimensions in the work we've undertaken.
February 14th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. David Pedlar
Veterans Affairs committee No, I haven't been informed directly, and I don't know what implications there would be, if any.
February 14th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. David Pedlar
Veterans Affairs committee It doesn't speak directly to the transition experience, but in 2008 a research team at the University of Alberta did a study on the challenges facing families of high-pension disability recipients. They found a number of challenges around the care-giving experience and around the
February 14th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. David Pedlar
Veterans Affairs committee The way we have divided it up so far is that we know that new Veterans Charter clients had higher rates of disability. They had higher rates of disability and higher rates of unemployment. We haven't gone beyond that into great detail to look at other factors that might have been
February 14th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. David Pedlar
Veterans Affairs committee We're generating many reports right now. We have the first three reports, which are publicly available, and then we're generating many reports, most of which will be in the public domain.
February 14th, 2012Committee meeting
Dr. David Pedlar