Veterans Affairs committee  No, it's all families.

Veterans Affairs committee  Really, when you look at military veteran families, they're like a microcosm of all other families. Whatever they are going through, whether they have trouble finding child care or they have trouble finding housing, is an example of what other families are doing. The difference

Veterans Affairs committee  It's a way to leverage the knowledge and life experience. If we can find a way to capture that, both in peer to peer...but also by getting advisers to Veterans Affairs and other organizations that military and veteran families come in contact with.... One of the things that is a

Veterans Affairs committee  Peer-to-peer supports can be very successful. We've seen, both at a program level and at a service delivery level, peer-to-peer supports, both within veterans services and within mental health services. We're also evaluating those. For example, there has been a long-standing peer

Veterans Affairs committee  Certainly, moving is a common denominator, although that's changing as families are changing. Modern military families are no different from modern families in Canada who aren't in the military, so there's a greater likelihood that both spouses will be working, and the upheaval i

Veterans Affairs committee  I think there are two things, and I'm sure Russ has a lot of things to add. We are all biological human beings, so anything related to that is universal, and we can learn from other countries quite easily. The actual military experience, and even the language we use, are very d

Veterans Affairs committee  Let me answer the second part first: what are we lacking? I think what's really clear in the research we've been doing, and in the consultations and the round tables that we've been privileged to be a part of, is that families often feel isolated and alone. This is about being

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, and the research shows very clearly that the health of the family is critical to the health of the veteran.

Veterans Affairs committee  We've identified a couple of things with the reservists. When we talk about military and veteran families, we include reservists in that umbrella. For us, when we talk to military families, they consider themselves a military family regardless of their status, whether they're rel

Veterans Affairs committee  There are a couple of things. Suicide is tragic. It can often be prevented if the right services and supports are in place. Often, we hear that for people who have attempted suicide, one of the things that makes it seem impossible is the pressure that they feel their families a

Veterans Affairs committee  We need to make sure that we balance the prevention and early intervention with the crisis intervention. We want to prevent people from ending up on the street. We want to prevent people from ending up in the emergency department. When they do, we want the emergency department to

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, we've been part of CIMVR since its inception. Annually, Russ and I have been playing host to a researchers' round table. Those round tables allow us to connect the researchers with the real life that's going on. We take that information back to the leadership circle and make

Veterans Affairs committee  I can comment on the research, and maybe Russ and Debbie can add to this, as well. I think there are good intentions. One of the challenges occurs when both the Department of Defence and Veterans Affairs try to handle the whole issue by themselves, when we already have community

Veterans Affairs committee  When we were founded by the Governor General, he felt that it would be important to have a funding mechanism that would be there in perpetuity and not necessarily at the whim of either the economy or the government in power at the time. He was wise enough to partner with the prim

Veterans Affairs committee  We have an annual budget of about $750,000. That covers all of the projects and the things we do. We have some alternative sources of funds that come from projects and contracts in government, and that kind of thing. By and large the base funding is covered through the endowment.