Thank you for your question.
I would very much support the comments Dr. Lanius made. Education is key to prevention. It is one of the big pieces that we have to move forward on in terms of being able to educate, and not just the community. Many people lack awareness of what post-traumatic stress disorder even is, including the people who are suffering from it themselves.
I echo Dr. Lanius' comments with respect to leadership. We heard that very loud and clear from the chiefs who were presenting at the round table. They felt very strongly that leaders needed to be more involved to appreciate and understand what post-traumatic stress disorder is and how they can help the staff that are serving them to move forward.
I will give you two quick examples. The RCMP is about to launch a longitudinal study, a 10-year study with respect to post-traumatic stress disorder, and one of the things that study will do is to help identify areas in which we can develop prevention. It will look at areas where we see PTSD being more prevalent, to be able to say that this is where we need to invest time and energy in prevention as we go forward, but also in terms of treatment in response to those kinds of issues.
The other one is about best practices. Maybe I would just cite the Road to Mental Readiness, which the Department of Defence has put in place. It is a very good educational short-term program with long-term benefits that assists people in the very beginning who are identified or identify themselves with post-traumatic stress disorder types of symptoms, and some of our public safety officer organizations are adopting that now.