Je m'excuse. I needed to confirm what you asked me.
No, I haven't received any information or any education on what the services for families are from VAC. I've never been contacted by VAC. For example, I never knew what types of benefits Sean was entitled to. We found out by trying and asking, but as far as I'm concerned, I don't see any proactive reaching out to families by Veterans Affairs.
What I would like to see...I think DND does have some types of programs where they actually tell the families what the issues are with their husbands--for example, what PTSD is, what they can expect in the way their husbands are going to behave, what types of things they are going to suffer or go through. But I don't think Veterans Affairs has that type of program. I think it would be very helpful for wives and kids to know what happened to their loved ones, what challenges they are going to face, especially because people who go to Veterans Affairs are the ones who are suffering with some type of injury, either psychologically or physically. They are the ones who are suffering. That's why they go to Veterans Affairs.
I am sorry, my first language is Spanish, so sometimes I have problems dealing with English and French with Spanish in my mind.
For example, with PTSD, I really didn't understand what PTSD was, and it has taken me 10 years to understand what Sean goes through and to understand what I can do when he's suffering his symptoms and how I can help him. It would be very good for someone to explain that to the family, when they come back and have these types of psychological injuries. If you will allow me to give a little example--