Veterans Affairs committee  I would also put a plug in for the OSI clinics, and maybe that's something we need to be thinking about in terms of their role and how they connect with other parts of the health care system.

Veterans Affairs committee  We do have a lot of that information in our training manual, because it's also for people in the sector serving the homeless to be aware of those issues, particularly around structure. Being one minute late for an interview can put off the development of a therapeutic relationshi

Veterans Affairs committee  No. I'm talking about the shelter allowance. There are different numbers across the country. I'm using Ontario data here. The province mandates how much the municipality must pay per diem to the shelter, which is right around $50, to keep a person in the shelter. It's the cost th

Veterans Affairs committee  They become homeless.

Veterans Affairs committee  I agree with you a hundred per cent. I think we need to have those linkages across the board. I certainly have worked with OSI clinics. As I said, we have an OSI clinic at the Parkwood that also covers the Toronto-Hamilton-Waterloo area. We just had a consortium meeting last week

Veterans Affairs committee  We work with Cockrell House. I met with some of the families and women there. Cockrell House also provides rent supplements to allow people to access housing outside of that main building. That's also what happened in London. The scattered site seems to work best with a rent supp

Veterans Affairs committee  One of the things we've done in the city of London—and how we've continued with the rent supplement—is compare the cost, if it comes from a different level of government, of being in a homeless shelter with the per diem rate. It ends up adding up to over $1,500 a month per person

Veterans Affairs committee  I'll take a couple of quick angles. It was ironic they had Sue Ray come in on PTSD, and it wasn't what we found. That's one of the reasons we went to 50, because we kept looking for it and thinking we had some kind of sampling error we weren't finding. I started my career work

Veterans Affairs committee  Okay, sorry. The veteran-serving agencies were often pouring the vodka for a different person down the sink and that was repeatedly leading to relapses. I'm just illustrating that difference in culture and why they were saying this harm reduction idea is such a hard thing for pe

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you for the invitation to speak on this important topic. I'm going to give you an overview of several projects we've done in this area to give you an idea of where it might be helpful for you to ask more questions. You understand from the introduction that I am a research