News and Statements
Letter to the Public from Ontario’s Mental Health and Addiction Sector Leaders
Friday, Sept. 25, 2020 The Honourable Doug Ford, Premier Premier's Office Room 281 Legislative Building, Queen's Park Toronto, ON M7A 1A1 Dear Premier, Yesterday, the Ontario Hospital Association (OHA), along with 38 health care leaders and physicians serving largely...
Sounding the alarm on Ontario’s crisis in children’s health care
Toronto, ON, September 11, 2020 NEWS PROVIDED BY Children’s Health Coalition Wait times and delayed care identified as urgent issues; coalition of Ontario pediatric health care providers to host town hall September 17 Ontario children are victims of a health...
Kids with mental health challenges will be left out from getting help
Toronto, ON, September 3, 2020 Children’s Mental Health Ontario (CMHO) warns that focusing and funding only school-based mental health services to support children as they transition back to school instead of increasing the existing community-based child and...
Mental health and addictions organizations call on province for $100 million COVID-19 emergency response package
Toronto, ON, July 30, 2020: Ontario’s leading mental health and addictions organizations including Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, The Royal, Ontario Shores, Children’s Mental Health Ontario, Canadian Mental...
We Are Coming Together for Families: Announcement from PCMH and CMHO
Toronto, ON, July 30, 2020: We are pleased to announce that effective August 1, 2020 Parents for Children’s Mental Health (PCMH) becomes a program of Children’s Mental Health Ontario (CMHO). PCMH and CMHO are excited about the opportunities we have to advance family...
CMHO Response to the New Child Welfare Strategy
Toronto, ON, July 29, 2020: Children’s Mental Health Ontario supports the Government of Ontario’s new vision for child welfare in the hope that once implemented some of our most vulnerable children will have much better outcomes than they do now. “The mental...
CMHO Calls for Action on the Deaths of 11 Ontario Indigenous Children
Toronto, ON, July 23, 2020: Following the news of the tragic deaths of 11 Indigenous children connected to Ontario’s child welfare system, with three ‘in care’ since the start of the pandemic, Children’s Mental Health Ontario (CMHO) joins the call for urgent and...
Statement from CMHO: Mental Health Crisis
Toronto, ON, June 26, 2020: Ontarians are not getting the care they need when they are in a mental health crisis. Since April, four racialized Ontarians – D’Andre Campbell, Caleb Njoko, Regis Korchinski-Paquet and now Ejaz Choudry – who were experiencing a mental...
Statement on Anti-Black Racism in Child and Youth Mental Health
Toronto, ON, June 17, 2020: Anti-Black racism is prevalent and entrenched in our communities and organizations. Systemic racism and the police violence, trauma and injustice we have seen in recent news and events are not solely American issues. This is a Canadian...
Covid-19 Mental Health Impacts
Toronto, ON, May 6, 2020: Half of Ontario children and youth at risk of mental health and addiction issues Timed to Mental Health Week, Children’s Mental Health Ontario (CMHO) and Addictions and Mental Health Ontario (AMHO) are releasing the Ipsos Public Affairs...