Veterans Affairs committee  Are you asking about programs within our organization?

Veterans Affairs committee  The core program that we deliver is, at first the VTP and now that five-day TSC. It is really our core offering, so that's really the only service that we deliver currently. We are working on that new peer support intervention as well, but as of now that's our core programming.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, typically we aim to have a third of the veterans attending our programs covered by Veterans Affairs. I talked earlier about the reality of charitable organizations. It's very difficult to convince people to give you funding to fund your staff, your rent or your Internet con

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, absolutely. I think I can elaborate. The experience was smooth compared to a lot of other applications, in particular, the ECSF. The advantage we have as an organization is that we have a dedicated grant writer and professional fundraiser. From our perspective as an organiz

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you for the question, Mr. Desilets. It meets our needs for the first six months of 2021. We began the year in a good financial position. We are ready to provide programs across Canada over the next six months, and we intend to do so. I will switch to English; I apologize.

Veterans Affairs committee  I'll compare and contrast our previous program and how we've modified the program for delivery during COVID. The veterans transition program that we typically deliver, which we have been running for 20 years, is 10 days in total, but it's broken up into three workshops of four d

Veterans Affairs committee  Most of the spaces we typically use were able to accommodate us. We are seeing increased costs because there are fewer efficiencies, if you will, with this design of the program. Yes, costs have increased a bit.

Veterans Affairs committee  As I mentioned earlier in my brief introduction to VTN, we've been a registered service provider for Veterans Affairs Canada since 2013. Basically what that means is for veterans who attend our program through a claim with Veterans Affairs, or if their claim would cover an entitl

Veterans Affairs committee  Just that they have entered an internal review of the program. They flagged the new program for review. At the time that we launched the program we spoke to a number of people at Veterans Affairs, some people at Medavie, and they said as a registered service provider, which we we

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you for putting this question to me in French. I apologize in advance for my grammar. I'm sure it will be terrible. I will do my best. Of course, we provide services in Quebec. Our expansion has been happening across Canada over the past eight years. In 2015, we provided

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, absolutely. Thank you for asking that question in English, because that would be significantly more difficult to answer in my broken French. Specifically with the ECSF, as I said, I do think that looking.... As a charitable organization, it seems to me that it was probably

Veterans Affairs committee  Okay. In round two, they had a national stream that was better suited to national organizations, but almost no money was given to veterans organizations in round two.

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. What do I believe worked well? The Sioux program was relatively accessible. It bought us the time to reinvent our programs and to relaunch. I think the Sioux program was particularly important for charitable organizations. Because of their financial structu

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you to the chair and to the members of the members of the committee for having me here today. My name is Oliver Thorne, and I am the executive director with the Veterans Transition Network, which is a registered Canadian charity that delivers group counselling programs fo