The Mental Health and Addictions Centre of Excellence hosted a private, virtual engagement session for AMHO members to share their input on Ontario’s new Mental Health and Addictions System Plan. The System Plan aims to review and update the existing priorities – including clinical programs and standards, Provincial Data Set (PDS), performance measurement and coordinated access from the 2020 Roadmap […]

The mental health and addictions provincial oversight model is designed to broadly engage stakeholders as we work to define, guide, monitor, and lead the development and delivery of standardized, high-quality mental health and addictions services, in alignment with the mandate of Ontario Health’s Mental Health and Addictions Centre of Excellence.   Led by Ontario Health’s […]

Guided by a provincial advisory committee, the Aging Without Violence project (AWV) has created this Visual Training Tool (VTT) to help service providers across a wide range of sectors gain a deeper understanding of trauma-informed approaches and promising practices when working with women of all ages who have experienced violence. By visualizing the neurobiology of […]

Children’s Mental Health Ontario (CMHO) works in collaboration with members and key sector partners to support and lead policy changes and advocacy initiatives for child and youth mental health. Our reach and relationships enable us to convene engagement activities critical to policy change, from research to consensus-building to the development and implementation of policy solutions. […]

This document has been developed to help health care professionals make decisions about the use of virtual care modalities (i.e., telephone, videoconferencing) for adults with depression and/or anxiety-related conditions.   This guidance is specific to decision-making regarding the delivery of virtual care for depression and anxiety-related conditions. It supplements – rather than replaces – all […]

The Ontario Student Drug Use and Health Survey (OSDUHS) is a population survey of Ontario students in grades 7 through 12. The OSDUHS began in 1977 and is the longest ongoing school survey in Canada—and one of the longest in the world. This self-administered, anonymous survey is conducted across the province every two years with […]