Veterans Affairs committee  Certainly. Thank you. One of the things that we're really trying to do through our work at CIMVHR is to make sure that we have research to answer some of these really complicated, messy questions. What we're hearing from all the witnesses is how many different interconnected kin

Veterans Affairs committee  I would echo Dr. Sareen's comments. I'm not aware of that distinction.

Veterans Affairs committee  I've done a fair bit of work around the evidence for this. I think this echos back to the need to move toward a family-centred model of service delivery. As [Technical difficulty—editor] when they come in for mental health services, there is a primary referral. That's the name on

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you very much, and thanks to all the members for their interest in these areas. There is a lot happening in the field of military and veteran family health, so it is very important to have these conversations, because we're learning more all the time. The family piece is

Veterans Affairs committee  I haven't seen that directly. I will speak a bit on the first responder research basis, because we do have a fairly heterogeneous representation of research. There's much more research on police than there would be on fire, for example. Even within that group of first responders,

Veterans Affairs committee  Certainly. Health Canada has invested $5 million over five years in the institute to develop its capacity to harness research to inform these issues. That does not directly fund research. That is to fund the development of the research ecosystem across Canada. The contracts co

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes. The recruitment process will become embedded within the Canadian Armed Forces release process. People will become aware of the study, and they can elect to release at that time. For many people, if they're medically releasing, they would have a date well in advance of their

Veterans Affairs committee  I'm not aware of any research literature that would inform a response to that.

Veterans Affairs committee  That's not a simple question to answer, because that's been the subject of some international debate around what exactly that looks like. There's quite a bit of perspective around a successful outcome being equated with the experience of well-being and whether well-being is a pro

Veterans Affairs committee  There are two parts to that. One is that there is a lot of activity across the Canadian Armed Forces and Veterans Affairs to close that seam, to improve that handover, to give that warm handshake. That's a very active initiative, with a lot of different invested parties within go

Veterans Affairs committee  Credibly, yes, the idea of a registry for veterans...and if that could be tied to some of their anonymized health data so that we're able to understand the health needs and issues and health utilization patterns for veterans, because they may not be all defined at the point of re

Veterans Affairs committee  That particular study is part of a funding relationship we have here, at the Canadian Institute for Military and Veteran Health Research, where the government can actually internally define; so the research directorate within Veterans Affairs Canada looks at its strategic priorit

Veterans Affairs committee  This is one of the challenges to that recruitment process. When we're recruiting people, when they're still in service, we don't actually know yet where they're going to be moving to. They may be serving in Meaford but they may return to Grand Falls, Newfoundland. We don't know w

Veterans Affairs committee  I can tell you that last year one of the contract research studies was an environmental scan of all the programs that are available, within the CAF, within Veterans Affairs, and also within the community. There was some high-level analysis done as well across different countries

Veterans Affairs committee  Absolutely. Thank you, and certainly my training as a mental health occupational therapist really informs this perspective as well. We do know that when you have someone who's in active service, there's a great deal of structure that goes along with that particular way of life. A