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Publications
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Highlighting international partnerships
CAMH Annual Report
Highlights from a year of achievements

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Representatives of 20 treatment centres around the world that are part of a four-year global initiative of the United Nations
Office on Drugs and Crime
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Hosted the international mental health promotion summer institute, which brought together almost 100 health promotion experts and researchers from Canada, the United States, the Netherlands,
Australia, India, Chile, Guyana and Mexico, to share experiences and strategies on mental health promotion policies, programs
and practices.
- Helped improve substance use and mental health care around the globe through our Office of International Health (OIH). In partnership with local organizations, OIH trained primary care workers
in Mexico and Chile, and health officials and medical students in Sri Lanka; conducted a feasibility study of methadone maintenance
treatment in Tanzania to address its growing heroin problem; and adapted CAMH’s Virtual Party website for use with youth in
Brazil.
- Was selected for a global initiative of the United Nations office on drugs and crime, along with 19 other treatment centres around the world. The four-year initiative, called the International Network of Drug
Dependence Treatment and Rehabilitation Resource Centres, is designed to build capacity in treatment and rehabilitation in
under-resourced countries.

Transforming CAMH, Transforming Lives: 2005-2006 Annual Report to the Community
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