On Monday, April 4, 2016 the University of Waterloo held the official opening ceremony of the Operational Stress Injury (OSI) service, expanding the Centre for Mental Health Service’s (CMHR) range of mental health care for the local community with a specialized assessment service for veterans, members of the Canadian Armed Forces and RCMP. The service was created by an important new partnership with Parkwood Institute’s Operational Stress Injury Clinic (OSIC) part of St. Joseph’s Health Care London (St. Joseph’s).
Prior to the ceremony, the CMHR was host to distinguished visiting guests including Dr. Cyd Courchesne, director general of health professionals and national medical officer of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Heather Tales, director of the Veterans Care Program at St. Joseph’s, and Michael Newcombe, OSISS peer support coordinator for Southwestern Ontario and director of casualty support management, for the Department of National Defense - and a veteran himself.
More information on the ceremony and the expanded OSI service can be found on the Faculty of Arts News site:
New partnership enables Centre for Mental Health Research to provide service to local veterans
And the following story in “The Record”
Waterloo centre to provide mental health services to veterans
