Message from Mary Deacon, President & CEO, CAMH Foundation

I have the unique privilege of working closely with people who work at CAMH -- front-line health care professionals, students, support staff, researchers and volunteers -- and with our donors. Daily, I see great innovations, great compassion, great generosity, great kindness and great vision. We have dedicated this annual report to those who transform lives, and to those whose lives are transformed:

• Our researchers' discoveries made possible by your gifts improve the lives of people facing mental illness and addiction, not just here at CAMH but all over the world.
• With the help of CAMH's gifted and committed health professionals, who provided excellence in care to over 20,000 people in 2003/2004, clients were able to transform their lives each day.
• We celebrate clients for their courage in seeking help and their determination to overcome the challenges posed by mental illness and addiction, and the accompanying stigma. In particular, we honour in this report those who shared with us their journeys with these challenges.
• We celebrate you, our donors: your generosity, vision and leadership. The transformative impact of your gifts on people and communities is inestimable.

It takes very special volunteers to embrace the challenges inherent in our highly stigmatized cause. We've had an extraordinary leader in Lynda Mackay, who retires as chair of our Board in September 2004. I'd like to thank her on behalf of the volunteers and staff of CAMH and its Foundation. Her successor, Tim Price, will find a strong, vibrant, dynamic organization, ready, eager and passionate about our dream of transforming the Queen Street site into a world-class hospital for the 21st century. We are on the vanguard of a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to change the way the world views mental illness and addiction.

Ours is a cause whose time has come.

Thank you for your support.

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