CAMH's New Vision for 1001 Queen Street West

A unique moment in the history of health care

Excitement has been growing around CAMH's plans to create a hub of care, research, education and health promotion in an urban village environment at our Queen Street site.

Left - Right: Paul Garfinkel, President & CEO, CAMH; Mary Deacon, President & CEO, CAMH Foundation; David Goldbloom, Senior Medical Advisor, Education and Public Affairs, CAMH; Jamie Anderson, Deputy Chairman, RBC Capital Markets and Chair of the Board of Trustees, CAMH.

The Globe and Mail's Toronto weekend section featured a front-page article supporting the proposed redevelopment as one of the "most open and pioneering" models for mental health and addiction care in the world. Writer Sarah Milroy praised CAMH staff for their "heroic" work in client care in spite of the limitations of the current facilities.

By creating an inviting neighbourhood, not an institution, stigma will be reduced, and more people will get the care they need. Care will be delivered with dignity, streamlining research and clinical services, decreasing the time from discovery to recovery.

Our new facilities will enable CAMH to continue to deliver the best in research, care, training and prevention. Our successes and breakthroughs will be disseminated worldwide.
We are on the brink of a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: to build a hospital for the 21st century that will transform the delivery of health care for mental illness and addiction, and change the way the world views these illnesses.

In the coming months, the CAMH Foundation will embark on the most ambitious capital campaign we have even undertaken to support this historic project. Support from the community will assure our success and achieve a profound victory in our work to erase the stigma attached to mental illness and addiction.
To find out more, please contact Anissa Hilborn, 416 535-8501, ext. 3534.

Volunteers already connected with CAMH's redevelopment project say they believe it to be the single most important contribution they can make to society at this time: maybe the most important thing they will do in their lives.

CAMH -- a cause whose time has come.

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