What's actually available to Canadian Veteran families?
A national inventory of services families can turn to — mapped by type, cost, geographic reach, and whether anyone has ever evaluated them.
Families serve too. But the supports they rely on are scattered across hundreds of organizations, with wildly different referral rules, costs, and evidence behind them. We pulled it all into one place so families, clinicians, and policy-makers can see the full picture.
Fourteen kinds of support, one map.

Everything from peer support to financial benefits, sorted into the categories above.
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Sortable reference with cost, evaluation status, referral requirements, and reach.
Download PDFThe map is uneven.
Most services are free at point of use, but accessibility varies sharply by province. Many programs still require Veteran involvement, which leaves families on their own when a Veteran can't or won't engage. Formal evaluation of outcomes is the exception, not the rule.
This scan is a starting point — for families looking for help, for clinicians making referrals, and for the system as a whole to see where the gaps actually are.
Prepared by the MacDonald Franklin OSI Research and Innovation Centre, April 2024.
