The Latest news impacting our sector, including AMHO media releases

October 21, 2016 Congratulations to our members Nipissing Mental Health Housing and Support Services and St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton for making the Honour Roll of the Minister’s Medal Honouring Excellence in Health Quality and Safety, and to our memberLOFT Community Services for receiving a Poster of Distinction Award. The awards were presented October 20 at the Health Quality Transformation Conference, Health Quality Ontario’s […]

October 18, 2016 The Honourable Jane Philpott House of Commons Ottawa, Ontario Canada, K1A 0A6 Re: Health Accord must include mental health and addiction Dear Minister Philpott, Ten years ago a ground-breaking Senate report urged Canadians to take mental health out of the shadows. The government established the Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC) in 2007. […]

October 17, 2016 TORONTO – Leaders in Ontario’s mental health and addictions sector are urging the Provincial and Territorial Health Ministers to commit significant investment in mental health and addictions services – especially in the areas of supportive housing and structured psychotherapy – in Canada’s renegotiated Health Accord. As members of Ontario’s Mental Health and […]

October 17, 2016 TORONTO – Leaders in Ontario’s mental health and addictions sector are pleased that Provincial and Territorial Health Ministers agree, Canada’s renegotiated Health Accord must provide a significant increase in funding for mental health and addictions services.  We now urge the Federal Government to grant this request so that Ottawa can fulfill a Health Accord […]

October 12, 2016 E-QIP is pleased to offer introductory training sessions on quality improvement. The training is based on the Health Quality Ontario & University of Toronto program called IDEAS. Classes will be 1-day in duration with a ‘homework’ component and follow-up on the web-based E-QIP Collaborative Community of Practice. This FREE, full day, quality improvement […]

Program will provide employees with $5,000 annual benefit for mental health and addiction challenges ​ October 7, 2016 Addictions and Mental Health Ontario (AMHO) and CMHA Ontario congratulate Starbucks Canada for the company’s latest initiative to support the mental health needs of its employees. Starbucks is substantially augmenting its mental health benefits to its employees […]