Veterans Affairs committee  You're referring to veterans in homeless situations. When you look at how they got there, had there been early intervention programs they wouldn't be there. Now that they are there, quite a bit of work is happening through the department in Vancouver, Montreal, and Toronto. We're

Veterans Affairs committee  That is certainly the role of our district offices. If they are clients, they are in contact with them. We have a proactive screening unit that does proactive kinds of contacts. I'm not sure whether the group you may be referring to is in our program itself. But there's also a

Veterans Affairs committee  If they are in receipt of any benefits from Veterans Affairs they are considered a VAC client, and they therefore would be entitled to case management, rehabilitation--

Veterans Affairs committee  I could certainly start, and Raymond and Tina can respond. The post-deployment study, for an example, that the Canadian Forces did to identify any physical and mental health problems following deployments indicated that 13% of the 8,000-and-some they had surveyed indicated they

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes. I'll respond, and then certainly you can add to it. When you look at the system that we have today between Veterans Affairs and National Defence, and what has been built over the years, I feel it's a pretty good system in terms of our having all of the major areas covered

Veterans Affairs committee  I could certainly start, and Raymond could add in. We have a number of studies that will be coming out. For example, our research folks are partnering with other organizations to do the life-after-service study. Those results, again, will be out in early 2011. And that's lookin

Veterans Affairs committee  I may not have covered the question quite the way I should have, if you are referring to the suicide prevention report or strategy that we have developed. As I said, we're not waiting to do work in that area, for Statistics Canada to give us data, because that will just give us d

Veterans Affairs committee  Now, with respect to World War II and Korean War veterans, and veterans after those wars and maybe prior to the implementation of the new Veterans Charter, you're absolutely right that we need to be doing more outreach. We actually have an outreach strategy in place where we are

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you for your remarks. On your first point, about the suicide rate, we'll certainly remove that reference. It wasn't intended in that way. We just tried to accurately report the results, because it is a CF study and it's based on the age group that's within the Canadian For

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, I certainly read the article, and I also read the article today that reported the story wasn't quite factual. We did talk with National Defence, because, as you know, we work very closely with National Defence to ensure that through our network of clinics across the country

Veterans Affairs committee  If I could respond as well, you're absolutely right that we do know what causes suicide is multifactorial. We do know that serious physical injury like amputations, serious chronic pain, psychiatric disorders, stressful life events, even imitation.... And when people may see thei

Veterans Affairs committee  Absolutely. In those situations, in our VAC office, a case manager is generally assigned to veterans, particularly veterans who have more severe PTSD and require rehabilitation. It starts with the case manager who is working with the veteran, and if it is identified, obviously, t

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, that’s the key. But if I could add as well, when we have people within 72 hours.... For example, because we have agreements with seven treatment centres that treat PTSD, co-morbid conditions, PTSD and substance abuse, we have been able to get people into these centres. We ha

Veterans Affairs committee  Mr. Vincent.

Veterans Affairs committee  I can begin. Thank you for your question. I’ll try to go in order, based on what your first questions were. You mentioned your concern about the epidemiology and the causative factors. In terms of the research we have on PTSD, at least, it has been pretty well identified in te