Highlighting diversity, arts and health promotion

CAMH Annual Report

Highlights from a year of achievements

• Highlighting care
• Highlighting women, youth and seniors
• Highlighting diversity, arts and health promotion
• Highlighting research, discovery and innovation
• Highlighting problem gambling
• Highlighting international partnerships

• Co-sponsored the major international health equity and diversity conference with the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), other hospitals, community agencies and Toronto Public Health. Participants drafted Toronto’s Health Equity and Diversity Charter to address the needs of diverse and marginalized communities in accessing health care, and to develop a plan to build a health equity agenda.
• Developed and delivered research grants with diversity as the key criterion to three communities across Ontario. Working with community partners through the recently established Community Research Capacity

  The cast of Vincent (a play written by Terry Watada and produced by Workman Arts) and staff of Workman Arts.

  Enhancement Program, these grants support research and planning related to critical mental health and substance use issues within diverse communities.
• Workman arts presented the 13th rendezvous with madness film festival, featuring 50 films on mental health and substance use. CAMH also supported the Shadows of the Mind Film Festival in Sault Ste. Marie. Together, the festivals attracted more than 3,700 participants. Workman Arts provides people receiving mental health and substance use services with year-round arts training in film, writing, music, theatre and visual arts.
• Received a Green Toronto Award for Excellence for our Sunshine Market Garden, located on our Queen Street site. The garden is a partnership between CAMH’s Vocational Rehabilitation Centre and FoodShare. Clients are involved in every aspect of the garden, from cultivation, harvesting and setting up a twice-weekly market to pricing and selling the organic produce.
• Released six new unique publications, including Beyond the Label: An Educational Kit to Promote Awareness and Understanding of the Impact of Stigma on People Living with Concurrent Mental Health and Substance Use Problems. Staff held 44 workshops on the publication, which were attended by over 1,200 people, and worked with the Korean community to culturally adapt it for that community’s specific needs.

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