The following veteran surveys are available:

VVi 16 May 2012

TO: ALL VETERANSOFCANADA MEMBERS
FROM: DON LEONARDO
SUBJECT: VETERANS REVIEW & APPEAL BOARD QUESTIONS 

After the Parliamentary Committee for Veterans Affairs finishes their current study they will commence an inquiry into the Veterans Review & Appeal Board. I'm trying to get a jump on this subject by asking you to give your input into this most important subject to all injured veterans, past, present and future.

I have heard a few remarks but would like to hear from you directly. Some say disband the VRAB but don't give details on what would replace it or how it would be better. Some say we need more Veterans, and health care professionals sitting on this board. I read the following early this morning and it makes me think how and what veterans would they choose? (No names, no pack drill) 

"Not taking anything away from all the great friends I have made over the years who are like a family to me. Its the Unit in general, since I became sick over a year ago and found out I was probably gonna be released I got 0% support from them. This made me realize a few things and decided it was time to find support else where if my unit wasn't going to help."
"I used to have to borrow a friends car, and lie to my boss just to go to my therapy. I got caught getting my meds by a CSM that will remain un-named, and he called me a coward, and told me I was a disgrace to the uniform. This was a very low time in my career, I was stuck in a job in the battalion that I hated, but I did my job the best I could, as all soldiers should do. You got to keep focused the future is all that matters. It sucks, to feel so betrayed, as simple as that."

Please click here to fill out the short questionnaire I have created. I will post the decisions of the majority of our members in the next newsletter for you to read. No names will be provided from the results.

Sincerely,
Donald Leonardo
VeteransofCanada.ca

Survey - A Survey of Mental Health Patients Utilizing Psychiatric Service Dogs

By Joan Esnayra Ph.D. & Craig Love, Ph.D.

VVi 05 Apr 2012 db

See pdf file...

http://www.psychdog.org/research.html

Survey - Supporting Canadian Veterans with Disabilities

VVi 10 Dec 2011 db

By: Alice Aiken and Amy Buitenhuis

Defence Management Studies Program, School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University in association with Canadian Institute for Military and Veterans Health Research 2011

Purpose:

To engage the interest and support of scholars, members of the Canadian Forces, public servants, and participants in the defence industry in the examination and teaching of the management of national defence policy and the Canadian Forces.

The Claxton Papers

The Queen’s University Defence Management Studies Program, established with the support of the Canadian Department of National Defence (DND), is intended to engage the interest and support of scholars, members of the Canadian Forces, public servants, and participants in the defence industry in the examination and teaching of the management of national defence policy and the Canadian Forces. The program has been carefully designed to focus on the development of theories, concepts, and skills required to manage and make decisions within the Canadian defence establishment.

The Chair of the Defence Management Studies Program is located within the School of Policy Studies and is built on Queen’s University’s strengths in the fields of public policy and administration, strategic studies, management, and law. Among other aspects, the program offers an integrated package of teaching, research, and conferences, all of which are designed to build expertise in the field and to contribute to wider debates within the defence community. An important part of this initiative is to build strong links to DND, the Canadian Forces, industry, other universities, and nongovernmental organizations in Canada and in other countries.

This series of studies, reports, and opinions on defence management in Canada is named for Brooke Claxton, Minister of National Defence from 1946 to 1954. Brooke Claxton was the first post-Second World War defence minister and was largely responsible for founding the structure, procedures, and strategies that built Canada’s modern armed forces. As defence minister, Claxton unified the separate service ministries into the Department of National Defence; revamped the National Defence Act; established the office of Chairman, Chiefs of Staff Committee—the first step toward a single Chief of Defence Staff; the Defence Research Board; and led defence policy through the great defence rebuilding program of the 1950s, the Korean War, the formation of NATO, and the deployment of forces overseas in peacetime. Claxton was unique in Canadian defence politics: he was active, inventive, competent, and wise.

The editor and the authors wish to thank Ellen Barton for her thorough and professional job as copyeditor, as well as Mark Howes and Valerie Jarus for their continued, accomplished efforts to change the work of “mere vi The Claxton Papers scholars” into an attractive, readable publication. We all thank Heather Salsbury for her unflagging good spirits and willing support to the Chair of Defence Management Studies.

The Chair in Defence Management Studies at the School of Policy Studies is supported in part by a grant to Queen’s University from the Department of National Defence within the Security and Defence Forum program.

Douglas L. Bland

Chair, Defence Management Studies Program

School of Policy Studies,

Queen’s University

Kingston, Canada

See the The Claxton papers report in pdf format...

http://www.veteranvoice.info/db/query-word_search_more.asp?search_fd0=1100

On-Going Survey Part 2 of 2 - Veterans Receiving Benefits from the CF Members and Veterans Re-establishment and Compensation Act (New Veterans Charter (NVC))

Purpose:

Query veterans who are in receipt of benefits from the New Veterans Charter (NVC), claim submitted on or after 01 Apr 2006, about employment after becoming VAC clients.

This is Part 2 of a two part study, the first study being Survey - Veterans Receiving Pension Act (PA) Pensions (below).

Survey website...

Take the online Part2 Survey...

View the Online Survey Results...

On-Going Survey Part 1 of 2 - Veterans Receiving Canadian Pension Act (CPA) Pensions

Purpose:
Query veterans who are in receipt of pensions under the CPA about employment after becoming VAC clients. Senior VAC bureaucrats and certain politicians have implied that those who received the monthly lifetime pension,"... just sat home waiting for their cheque...".

This is Part 1 of a two part study, the second study being Survey - Veterans Receiving Benefits from the Canadian Forces Members and Veterans Re-establishment and Compensation Act (New Veterans Charter (NVC)) (above)

Survey website...

Take the online Part1 Survey...

View the Online Survey Result...

Survey - Veterans Survey Project 2009/Projet d'enquête des anciens combattants 2009

29 Mar 2010 db

By: Shelley Langstaff

School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University

Purpose: The objective of this research project, entitled Veterans Survey Project 2009, is to explore relationships within the military subculture, including demographic similarities among veterans, level of satisfaction regarding recognition for service and service provisions reflected in the New Veteran’s Charter.

Specifically, the research question asks, “Is the New Veterans’ Charter sufficient to ensure that veterans receive a full continuum of care aimed at assisting in a successfully transition from active military duty to meaningful civilian life?”

Objectif: Survey!L'objectif de ce projet de recherche intitulé Projet d'enquête des anciens combattants 2009, est d'explorer les relations au sein de la sous-militaire, y compris parmi les anciens combattants des similitudes démographiques, le niveau de satisfaction à l'égard de la reconnaissance pour le service et la fourniture d'un service dans la nouvelle Charte des anciens combattants.

Plus précisément, la question de recherche qui demande: «Est-ce que la nouvelle Charte des anciens combattants suffisantes pour s'assurer que les anciens combattants reçoivent un continuum de soins visant à aider à une transition de l'activité avec succès le service militaire significative à la vie civile?"

For initial survey findings see the DB under Special Reports or CLICK here for html page!.