Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you. I sit before you today representing the veterans transition program on behalf of Dr. Marv Westwood, a professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia, and Dr. David Kuhl, a professor of medicine at the University of British Columbia. They founded the ve

Veterans Affairs committee  I'll yield my time for the questions and answers. Actually, I will add something about the national rollout. Because it's a UBC program--it's been researched for 14 years--we have our data and we presented it at the military research conference. We are now looking to move it int

Veterans Affairs committee  To the first question, I went to an OSI clinic; those are the provincially operated federally funded clinics. It was the psychiatrist there who said “quick assessment”--and it wasn't quick, an hour and a half--and then that was it. There were no other additional treatments offere

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, we have five leading teams--that's two psychologists. They are trained and they're ready to go. They're asking me all the time when the next program is going to run. I just have to say “That's based on funding”.

Veterans Affairs committee  We have a five-year strategic plan and our mandate is to offer it to anyone who wants it by the fifth year. So we are going to be growing. It's going to take five years to get to full capacity, but our intention.... We haven't had a wait list so far. We've usually had programs ru

Veterans Affairs committee  For the first two years, we need $975,000 for infrastructure costs, and each 10-day program costs about $60,000 to run.

Veterans Affairs committee  As I'm still in the military, I fall under the purview of DND, so I didn't access any VAC services. DND was there. It was sparse.

Veterans Affairs committee  In my experience, it's a two-front war: one is finding out about them, and then one is trying to get over going and asking for help. That's where we just really need to reframe it as something away from the medical model. It obviously has to be based on the medical model and th

Veterans Affairs committee  It wasn't until I got into the transition program that I realized how significant the Legion's impact is. But again, right after coming out, I was 23, and I didn't want to know anything about anything. I was okay. I was good to go. I wanted to get back into school and get into a

Veterans Affairs committee  That we are meeting the demand?

Veterans Affairs committee  No. We are meeting the front-line demand, but we haven't done our huge outreach push.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes.

Veterans Affairs committee  Funding is from the B.C. and Yukon Command of the Legion, and in kind, through the University of British Columbia.

Veterans Affairs committee  This summer the Dominion Command submitted a request to Veterans Affairs Canada to become an official service provider.

Veterans Affairs committee  I haven't heard back yet.