News and Statements
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...
28,000 Ontario Children and Youth Are Waiting for Community Mental Health Services
Toronto, ON, January 27, 2020: Children’s Mental Health Ontario (CMHO), representing Ontario’s community public providers of child and youth mental health supporting more than 130,000 children and youth, released new wait time data that shows 28,000 children and...
Ontarians Believe No Child Should Wait More Than 48 Hours for Mental Health Care
Toronto, ON, February 19, 2020: New poll by Ipsos and Children’s Mental Health Ontario reveals sharp contrast to the reality of 28,000 kids waiting up to 2.5 years A month after the release of the Kids Can’t Wait Children’s Mental Health Ontario (CMHO) Report which...
Ontario’s Roadmap to Wellness Needs a Comprehensive and Fully-Funded Plan to Reduce Wait Times
Toronto, ON, March 3, 2020: To be successful, Ontario's Roadmap to Wellness needs a comprehensive and fully-funded plan to reduce wait times: combined statement from Ontario’s mental health and addiction providers The province’s leading public providers of adult,...
Statement From Children’s Mental Health Ontario in Response to the Release of the Ontario Ministry of Health’s Roadmap to Wellness
Toronto, ON, March 3, 2020: The Ontario government’s new mental health and addictions strategy is a start towards making transformational changes to address the gaps in service and wait times for child and youth mental health and addictions care. “The Minister’s...