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Ontario urgently needs a provincial alcohol strategy: health and social sectors
(Toronto, May 13, 2024) – A coalition of organizations across public health, research and advocacy, and community mental health and addictions are calling on the province to develop a comprehensive provincial alcohol strategy to promote the health and safety of people in Ontario. In a letter released to the province today, the coalition points out that despite plans to introduce alcohol in an...
Join CMHO to raise awareness about Children’s Mental Health Week (May 6–12) and National Child and Youth Mental Health Day (May 7)
(Toronto, ON) May 6, 2024. National Child and Youth Mental Health Day is on May 7 and is a part of Children’s Mental Health Week from May 6 to May 12, 2024. Children's Mental Health Ontario (CMHO) is encouraging all of Ontario to join us as we raise awareness about the importance of child and youth mental health and well-being. Together with our 85 community child and youth mental health...
Children’s Mental Health Ontario CEO Tatum Wilson Issued the Following Statement About Canada’s new Youth Mental Health Fund
April 9, 2024, Toronto, ON — “We are pleased to see the federal government’s commitment to invest $500 million towards creating a new Youth Mental Health Fund to help community health organizations provide mental health services to youth. Children and youth are facing increased mental health issues like never before. Despite recent new investments in Ontario, decades of chronic underfunding in...
Statement from Children’s Mental Health Ontario in Response to Ontario Budget 2024
Toronto, ON, March 26, 2024: Children’s Mental Health Ontario welcomes new funding in the 2024 Ontario Budget announced today for five new youth wellness hubs and investments in supportive housing, but it does not meet the need for urgent and sustained funding to address the health human resource crisis and the long wait times for services within the community child and youth mental health...
Children’s Health Coalition: Letter to Premier Ford and Deputy Premier Jones
February 8, 2024 Dear Premier Ford and Deputy Premier Jones, Thank you for your ongoing recognition of the importance of children’s physical, developmental and mental health, and the historic investments in children’s healthcare your government made this past July. It is in this context that we are writing today, to express our appreciation for your commitment to respect the rights of patients...
Children’s Mental Health Ontario Welcomes Investment by Ontario Government in Community-Based Child and Youth Mental Health
January 24, 2024 (Burlington, ON) – Children’s Mental Health Ontario thanks the Ontario government for the $44.6 million investment in community-based child and youth mental health, which will help kids and families get the mental health care they need sooner and closer to home. This new funding is a leap forward to address longstanding and urgent gaps in treatment for children, youth, and...
Ontario Mental Health and Addictions Organizations Sound the Alarm on Alcohol Announcement
Toronto, December 14, 2023 – Community mental health and addictions organizations are expressing concern over the alcohol retail sales expansion, noting that the announcement will contribute to an increase in public health harms. The concerns come as the Ontario government has announced increased access to alcohol by allowing sales in corner stores, gas stations, and grocery stores, as well as...
CMHO Stands in Solidarity with Gender Diverse, Trans, and Queer Children and Youth – There is No Space for Hate
September 19, 2023 Children’s Mental Health Ontario (CMHO) and our member child and youth mental health centres across the province add our voice to show support for the human rights and well-being of gender diverse, trans, and queer children and youth. This week, many child and youth mental health centres will be joining Ontarians across the province to stand together in counter protest and...
Tatum Wilson, CEO, Children’s Mental Health Ontario, issued the following statement in response to Ontario Government announcement of $330 million annual boost in pediatric health services investments
July 19, 2023 – Children’s Mental Health Ontario thanks the Ontario Government for its continued investments to address the backlog to access pediatric health services, including child and youth mental health and addiction care. The mental health of children and youth significantly deteriorated during the pandemic, especially for kids with pre-existing serious and complex mental health...
Pediatric Health Leaders Applaud Historic Expansion of Children’s Health Care
July 19, 2023 (OTTAWA, Ontario) – Today, the Ontario Government Made Kids Count with a historic investment of $330 million to expand children’s health care across the province. This investment will allow children’s hospitals and community-based providers across the province to expand services and reduce wait times for essential children’s health care services, including surgeries, procedures,...