Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, I'd be happy to share my personal experience here. I have done it before in the media and also in a documentary called War in the Mind. Our program was featured for 12 minutes in that documentary on TV Ontario. It's still available to be seen online. One of the big issues t

Veterans Affairs committee  Right now, because it has been a research project and they have been developing and evaluating it, we haven't been doing a lot of outreach. We are in that position now, so a lot of our funding will be going toward getting veterans in the communities and finding people to come int

Veterans Affairs committee  I'd be happy to answer the first part, and this would be directly on behalf of Dr. David Kuhl, the co-founder of our program. He worked in palliative care at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver for a number of years, so he'll often say that he's seen thousands of people die. What

Veterans Affairs committee  Sure. Absolutely. When we talk about the first two sets of four days, it's not just on communication. It is really in-depth psychological treatment for people with severe PTSD, or people with mild PTSD, or whatever varying operational stress injury. The career transition progra

Veterans Affairs committee  I haven't heard back yet.

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  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