Operational Stress Clinic Telemental Health Outreach

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Operational Stress Clinic Telemental Health
Outreach

• Project Partners
• CareWest, OSI Clinic
• Department of Veterans Affairs Canada, Mental
  Health Policy Directorate
• Calgary Health Region Telehealth
• Alberta Mental Health Board

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What is Operational Stress Injury (OSI)?

• 10 of Cdn Forces (estimate)
• 2500 Active CF presently deployed to Afghanistan
• Stigma Culture Geographic Isolation

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Who will this initiative reach

• Veterans, members of Canadian Forces, eligible
  members of RCMP, families
• In rural Central Southern Alberta

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Project Scope

• Specialized mental health services
• Reduce the burden of OSI and Improve the quality
  of life for clients and their families
• Increase rural health professionals ability to
  identify and manage individuals with OSI

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Innovation

• First program of its kind in Canada
• Well established in United States
• Services are based on the unique needs of this
  population and their families
• Model for adoption of similar service by other
  jurisdictions

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Ensuring Project Success

• Acceptance
• Clinicians Clients
• Staffing
• Challenge of finding support and clinical staff
  in the current economy
• Training

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For more information

• Lenore Delday
• Project Coordinator
• Alberta Mental Health Board
• Telemental Health Service
• [phone]
• lenore.delday_at_amhb.ab.ca