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Veterans Affairs committee It is an operational stress injury. In our 10 clinics that have been set up—and whose number has doubled since 2007—our clinicians are part of an interdisciplinary team. They are specialized in treating operational stress or post-traumatic stress. One of their responsibilities is
September 26th, 2012Committee meeting
Raymond Lalonde
Veterans Affairs committee As far as the OSI clinics are concerned, one of the beauties of having a partnership with provincial institutions is the connections the staff of the clinics have with the provincial health systems and the community services. So I would say one of the mandates of the OSI clinics
May 15th, 2012Committee meeting
Raymond Lalonde
Veterans Affairs committee DND started to set up what they call the Operational Trauma and Stress Support Centres in the 1990s, before Veterans Affairs started our OSI clinics. What we offer are similar services. In most of the areas, there's either an OSI clinic or an OTSSC. Four major cities—Quebec City,
May 15th, 2012Committee meeting
Raymond Lalonde
Veterans Affairs committee As I was explaining at the beginning, we have 10 clinics across the country. Providing specialized services across Canada is really not easy, because a lot of our veterans don't live close to those clinics. We have to scale our network in order to have different modalities of acc
May 15th, 2012Committee meeting
Raymond Lalonde
Veterans Affairs committee Good afternoon and thank you for the invitation to appear. Another area where the department has established partnerships to meet the needs of clients with operational stress injuries concerns the network of specialized clinics it has developed. The OSI clinic network is compose
May 15th, 2012Committee meeting
Raymond Lalonde