Veterans Affairs committee  There's some research being done right now on what the indicators of success are. When those indicators are absent, there is an increased risk of failure to transition well and failure to thrive. Your question is probably three to five years ahead of its time. That research is cu

Veterans Affairs committee  I think there are enormous commitment, passion, and conviction from the people we've come in contact with in the research community, at VAC, at DND, and within the veteran community. We don't want to minimize, diminish, or water down that passion, enthusiasm, and commitment by ov

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, absolutely. I think this goes back to the comment earlier about being veteran-centric as opposed to system-centric. Instead of having the veteran try to find a way within the bureaucracy, have the bureaucracy designed in such a way that it meets the needs of the veteran, so

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you so much for this opportunity to share our experiences with you. For us, I think the real value will be in having that combination of programs, services, and supports at the community level that are responsive and reactive as well as proactive and interactive, the inter

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you. I'm speaking today as the CEO of the Vanier Institute. As you know, the institute was founded over 50 years ago by the late general, the Right Honourable Georges P. Vanier and his wife Pauline, mother of his five children and, at times, his caregiver. He was one of Can

Veterans Affairs committee  There are a couple of things. Listen to the military families, those who are already in the military and those who have left the military and are now veterans. They talk with each other all the time. They're really clear on what they need. I think Phil mentioned this. There's a

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

Veterans Affairs committee  I think one of the things we're hearing from the leadership circle is a desire for more of the awareness. In the space of a couple of months, from an idea to a launch, we were able to get to 35,000 family physicians coast to coast to coast: 4,000 of them in their hands, and the r

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  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  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  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?