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Ontario’s mental health and addiction leaders respond to government’s new investment
October 7, 2020: Ontario’s leading mental health organizations including Addictions and Mental Health Ontario, Canadian Mental Health Association, Ontario Division, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Children’s Mental Health Ontario, The Royal, Ontario Shores...
Government of Ontario COVID-19 recovery must address mental health and addiction crisis warn experts
Toronto, October 6, 2020: Everything is not all right, warned Ontario’s leading mental health and addiction organizations including, Addictions and Mental Health Ontario, Canadian Mental Health Association, Ontario Division, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health,...
Letter to the Premier from Community Health Ontario
September 28, 2020 The Honourable Doug Ford, Premier Premier's Office Room 281 Legislative Building, Queen's Park Toronto, ON M7A 1A1 Dear Premier, As new COVID-19 cases have reached 700 today in Ontario, we’re writing you on behalf of the province’s leading community...
Letter to the Public from Ontario’s Mental Health and Addiction Sector Leaders
September 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 in...
AMHO celebrates Recovery Month 2020
September 1, 2020 Addictions and Mental Health Ontario (AMHO) is excited to celebrate recovery throughout the month of September. Together, we can work to stop the stigma surrounding addiction and create a recovery system that works. This Recovery Month, it has become...
Addictions and Mental Health Ontario observes International Overdose Awareness Day
August 31, 2020 Today is International Overdose Awareness Day. International Overdose Awareness Day is observed globally to acknowledge the grief felt by those who have lost loved ones to preventable overdose deaths and to end the stigma of drug-related death. “Today,...
Mental health and addictions organizations call on province for $100 million COVID-19 emergency response package
Toronto, 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 Health...
Addictions and Mental Health Ontario launches Strategic Plan 2020-2023
Advocate. Communicate. Sustain. July 7, 2020 Addictions and Mental Health Ontario (AMHO) is excited to release our Strategic Plan 2020-2023 with a refreshed vision, mission, and priorities to drive a new system of addiction and mental health where a person can access...
AMHO calls for urgent action on overdose crisis
Toronto, ON, June 17, 2020 12:00 pm: Addictions and Mental Health Ontario (AMHO) is calling for urgent action to address the rising number of overdose and opioid-related deaths and the devastating impact felt by families and communities across Ontario. The COVID-19...
New research shows two-thirds of Ontarians feel that the mental health impacts of COVID-19 are going to be serious and lasting
-Half of Ontario children and youth at risk of mental health and addiction issues- Toronto, ON, May 6, 2020 12:00 pm: Timed to Mental Health Week, Children’s Mental Health Ontario (CMHO) and Addictions and Mental Health Ontario (AMHO) are releasing the Ipsos Public...
