Highlighting women, youth and seniors

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

• The VALIDITY Team

  Introduced innovative clinical services including an early intervention service for young adults with mood psychosis. This partnership between our Mood and Anxiety and Schizophrenia Programs and the Canadian Mental Health Association is the first program of its kind specifically for youth.
• Expanded the continuum of care for women through our new Transitional Care Program, which shortens hospital stays and helps women—some with complex mood and anxiety disorders, complicated by trauma or addiction—make the transition from hospital to home.
• Strengthened our focus on youth through new services and projects, including the VALIDITY (Vibrant Action Looking Into Depression In Today’s Young Women) initiative, which brought together 200 diverse young women to talk about their lives and depression, and led to an important new resource for health professionals called Hear Me, Understand Me, Support Me: What Young Women Want You to Know about Depression.
• Opened the centre for prevention science, which is pioneering approaches to prevent societal youth problems such as bullying. Part of our Child, Youth and Family Program, the London, Ontario centre houses the “Fourth R” project—a violence prevention and healthy relationship program being piloted in local high schools and adapted for use with First Nations youth.

• l-r: Adonis Huggins, Emmanuel Kedini and Vinh Duong of Regent Park Focus.

  Published Responding To Older Adults With Substance Use, Mental Health and Gambling Challenges, a key resource for responding to older adults with alcohol, anxiety, dementia, depression, gambling and medication problems in ways that help to build trust, reduce harm and provide access to specialized care.
• Sponsored the work of community-based programs like Regent Park Focus, a dynamic non-profit organization using arts and media technology to employ young people, enhance resiliency and increase civic engagement in Canada’s largest social housing community. Co-ordinator and community activist Adonis Huggins received a Face the Arts award, from the City of Toronto and Toronto Life magazine, in recognition of his contribution to Toronto’s cultural life.

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