More than $1 million from the Royal Canadian Legion’s poppy fund will be going to the Heroes in Mind Advocacy and Research Consortium (HiMARC) at the University of Alberta.

The legion’s AB-NWT command calls it the “largest donation (it’s) ever made.”

The university is helping service members and veterans with supports to attend post-secondary school as well as with its therapeutic research into post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health concerns.

“We want to find some other interventions that may be helpful for them rather than leaving them struggling,” said Suzette Bremault-Phillips, a professor at the U of A.

The treatment Bremault-Phillips is researching is called multi-modal motion-assisted memory desensitization and reconsolidation (3MDR).

It uses virtual reality

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