Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I am Tania Bennett, executive sponsor for Partners in Canadian Veterans Rehabilitation Services, or PCVRS. Joining me are my PCVRS colleagues: Gilles Chabot, who is a member of the PCVRS executive team, and Paulette Gardiner Millar, who is our dedicated contract manager. We're extremely pleased to be here today to share information related to this very important topic.
Partners in Canadian Veterans Rehabilitation Services is an innovative partnership, joining long-serving organizations in Canadian rehabilitation and vocational services. In fact, our partnership was created for one specific purpose, and that's to deliver high-quality rehabilitative care for veterans through services contracted by Veterans Affairs Canada in the rehabilitation services and vocational assistance program.
Our organization and our qualified health and vocational professionals from across Canada bring the knowledge and expertise to meet VAC's requirements for the program.
I'd like to tell you a little bit more about who we are. Our team has many years of experience providing a comprehensive range of evidence-based medical, psychosocial and vocational rehabilitation assessments and services across the country. We have deep experience working with veterans and we have developed tried and tested methods to deliver high-quality assessments and rehabilitation services that will help veterans transition to post-service life.
PCVRS is a mission-driven team with shared culture and values. We are committed to enabling veterans to live better lives through effective, personalized rehabilitative and vocational care. Our focus is on helping veterans and their families successfully transition to post-service life and to achieve their potential in all areas of well-being. We're on a mission to ensure that participants of the program achieve optimal levels of health, functioning and participation at home, at work and in their communities.
There are four key values for our foundation of care for veterans and their families. The values in our C-A-R-E or CARE model are compassion, access, respect and excellence.
Our approach puts veterans first. We show compassion for those we serve and build trusting relationships based on integrity and kindness. We remove barriers to access to services by providing a wide variety of in-person and virtual services in both English and French, and accessibility is embedded in our technology and our service delivery approaches.
PCVRS provides Canada-wide coast-to-coast coverage through a network of thousands of medical, psychosocial and vocational rehabilitation services professionals who provide services through in-person care as well as virtual options.
We provide and nurture an inclusive environment that is free from discrimination and that is respectful and considerate of the unique experience of each veteran, spouse, common-law partner or survivor. We have embedded gender-based analysis-plus principles into all aspects of our service to advance equality and inclusion for veterans of all backgrounds. We provide training for our team members to support specific veteran communities, including the indigenous veteran population.
We strive for excellence in all we do, and we'll collaborate as a partner to continuously improve the participant experience and to enhance rehabilitative outcomes.
Our Partners in Canadian Veterans Rehabilitation Services team has been created to achieve our mission to enable better lives for veterans. We take a “team around the participant” approach and we look forward to collaborating with VAC case managers to deliver our contracted services for the rehabilitation program. This is important, as we understand that case managers are the delegated VAC decision-makers for rehabilitation plans.
In closing, we are honoured to deliver a professional and supportive rehabilitation service for Canadian veterans. Veterans and their families deserve high-quality, accessible and inclusive health and well-being services, and that is what PCVRS is committed to delivering.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.