Veterans Affairs committee  You are aware that a number of veterans receive services at the Maison La Vigile, but they also receive psychiatric services at the OSI clinic. So all the veterans do not come to the Maison La Vigile. Sometimes, family members or spouses can also develop dependency issues or depr

Veterans Affairs committee  Veterans tell us that they have difficulty getting into the labour market because they have had no closure on their military careers. It is very difficult for them to accept that they no longer have a military career. Only about 30% of the veterans coming to the Maison La Vigile

Veterans Affairs committee  The service that we provide is summed up in the six programs we have mentioned. The grey area is when Veterans Affairs Canada makes a request for a person who takes substances 20 times a day and poses a serious risk in terms of withdrawal. We have criteria that can exclude cases

Veterans Affairs committee  Actually, families are not part of the programming at La Vigile. Just the veterans.

Veterans Affairs committee  I am sorry, but I did not hear the question very well.

Veterans Affairs committee  The request must always come from Veterans Affairs Canada. If the wife of a veteran ever calls about an admission, we refer her to Veterans Affairs Canada. The request cannot come directly from a family member or from a veteran. It must come from a case manager at Veterans Affair

Veterans Affairs committee  In terms of staff training, a lot of training programs on personality disorders are given by psychologists. As for the nursing staff, we have a veteran who works nights as a nurse. We also have a nurse who was previously in the military.

Veterans Affairs committee  Unfortunately, we are not really familiar with that transition period.

Veterans Affairs committee  Unfortunately, we are not aware of that process at La Vigile.

Veterans Affairs committee  Actually, the goal of the Maison La Vigile is not to provide psychotherapy or to work directly on the trauma. You have to understand that, when a person is living through an experience, it triggers thoughts and interpretations of the event, which lead to the particular behaviours

Veterans Affairs committee  Those comments did not come directly from the families, from the wives or the children, they came rather from the veterans who have stayed at La Vigile and who said that they wished their families had access to those services.

Veterans Affairs committee  We have had military medics who were not directly involved in combat, but who had to look after their comrades. They had been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder after providing that care to their comrades.

Veterans Affairs committee  The main reason why veterans come to the Maison La Vigile is that they are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Fifty per cent of those diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder develop dependency problems. A lot of members of the military and veterans with that dia

Veterans Affairs committee  Our clients are more than 95% men. We have seen a few military women, some of whom have been victims of harassment, even sexual assault, not only in their military careers but also in their personal lives. They are still a very small part of our clientele. In the consultations, t

Veterans Affairs committee  Most of our veterans, our clients, have post-traumatic stress disorder, one of the symptoms of which is anger. We have heard some comments about veterans. It is important to understand that people diagnosed with depression are often going to be haunted by the past whereas people