Designated Assistant Guide

Table of Contents

• Office of Primary Interest
• Improvement of the guide
• Guide Objective
• Definitions
• Role
  • Designated Assistant’s role and responsibilities
  • Your tasks
  • Protocol for a Designated Officer
  • Toolbox
• Death
  • References
• Contacts for the NOK
• Designated Assistant’s Check List
  • Map of 8 Wing Trenton
• Administration Assistance
  • Stages of bereavement
  • Counselling
  • OSISS – HOPE Bereavement Peer Support Program
  • Wills and Estates
  • Funeral and burial
  • Funeral expenses
  • Funeral director
  • Funeral arrangements
  • Burial
  • Temporary marker
  • Official headstone/memorial
  • Privately Purchased Headstone/Marker or Other Memorial
  • Military Memorial Service
  • Funeral and benefit expenses
  • Death certificates and registration of death
  • Financial assistance
  • Board of inquiry
  • Assistance to the NOK
  • Medical/dental coverage
  • DA disengagement
• Possible benefits and services in case of death
• Injury/Illness
  • Seriously ill/injured (SI) or very seriously ill/injured members (VSI)
  • Living Benefit – terminally ill member
  • References
• Checklist injury/illness
• Administration Assistance
  • Transportation and travel of the NOK and family
  • Financial assistance
  • Substitute decision-makers
  • Board of inquiry
  • Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC) benefits
  • Counselling
  • DA disengagement
• Possible disability benefits and services
• Contacts
• Format