Operational Stress Injury Social Support (OSISS) Program

The Operational Stress Injury Social Support (OSISS) Program provides confidential peer support and social support to CF personnel, Veterans, and their families, affected by an operational stress injury like anxiety, depression, or PTSD resulting from military service.

Social support is offered by individuals who have themselves experienced an operational stress injury, and by family members who fully understand, through their own experiences, operational stress injury issues.

The OSISS peer support program is available throughout Canada to serving CF personnel, Veterans and their families.

Peer Support

Trained Peer Support Coordinators, who themselves have been injured by operational stress, offer support by listening to those who are suffering, drawing on similar experiences, and providing guidance on resources available in DND, VAC and their own community.

Peer Support Coordinators respect individual situations and privacy. They can be trusted to keep conversations confidential.

Family Support

Family Support Coordinators offer support to families affected by an operational stress injury by listening, providing information, engaging in discussion groups, and making connections to community resources.

Accessing Peer or Family Support

Just as physical injuries resulting from operational duties can be treated and healed, psychological injuries resulting from operational stress injury can also be treated and healed.

If you are a CF member, Veteran, or family member, affected by an operational stress injury visit the OSSIS website at www.osiss.ca (external link) or call 1-800-883-6094 for confidential peer support.