Veterans Affairs committee  No.

Veterans Affairs committee  What we're hearing from military families—and we do have a significant military veteran family initiative under way—is that many of them are reluctant to access services delivered by DND or VAC because they don't want to get labelled or, as somebody described it, lost in the vort

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you. Thank you for the opportunity to appear before you. It's always a pleasure to be here. I'll be talking about transition through a family lens. I'll share with you some of the findings on the work-to-retirement transition and how it applies, or not, to military and vet

Veterans Affairs committee  One of the things we've heard from families is they identify as a military family. They're a military family forever. Oftentimes what happens is the care that's available, as limited as it might be in some locations, is focused on the individual. It's partly silos, partly privacy

Veterans Affairs committee  I can't speak specifically for VAC, but by and large families are neglected after a crisis.

Veterans Affairs committee  We're certainly hearing from spouses and family members that they too have a need for peer support. It's being able to chat with another spouse at three o'clock in the morning because they finally got their partner back into bed, calmed down, asleep and resting. Now they're wired

Veterans Affairs committee  There could be an identifier on the medical record, absolutely, which would then allow us to track and to connect. Right now, Ontario has some data that we can mine, but not enough. Certainly, we could have the provinces understand the veteran data in their own provinces. If yo

Veterans Affairs committee  Can I just give one quick example?

Veterans Affairs committee  Pediatricians, as a result of this, now have a program whereby they do a warm handover. Instead of your being a patient of a pediatrician and then moving across the country and going to the bottom of the waiting list and working your way up, there is now a warm handover. That mil

Veterans Affairs committee  The leadership circle is primarily national, so we work with the national partners. Having said that, we recently co-hosted a regional leadership circle in Newfoundland for Atlantic Canada to ensure that everybody from the regional organizations also had the necessary military li

Veterans Affairs committee  We hear from military families all the time that they identify as a military family. What they don't identify with is a military family in transition to civilian life or a “veteran family”. Once you're military, you're military for life. Little things that we've heard affect fa

Veterans Affairs committee  I think there are a couple of things too. Most of the services that have been established to meet the needs of military or veteran families are close to installations, such as Petawawa or Gagetown. But when you talk about veterans, you're talking about every community from coast

Veterans Affairs committee  Can I just add one quick comment? One of the things we've done with the Leadership Circle, to pick up on what Breanna said, is building on what already exists and making those programs military-welcoming and veteran-inclusive. We don't have to start from a blank slate. We just ne

Veterans Affairs committee  There are about 40 community-based organizations and they're not the typical military organizations that you might find at a stakeholder summit or the like. There's the College of Family Physicians Canada and the Canadian Child Care Federation. There are community-based organizat

Veterans Affairs committee  Right now, nothing. They are active participants in the leadership circle. We have three co-chairs for that circle: the deputy minister of veterans affairs, the chief of military personnel command, and one of our board members. They co-chair together, and the resources they offer