Through our Office of International Health, CAMH works with partners around the world to strengthen their ability to address critical mental health and addiction challenges. This work also broadens our own knowledge base, enabling us to better serve our own clients and communities.

CAMH’s collaborative programs include major training and health promotion projects in Sri Lanka, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and the Caribbean.

This year CAMH hosted numerous international study visits and forums, including:

• 10 academics from seven Latin American countries for intensive two-month training in drug research
• 10 municipal primary care providers from Chile and Brazil for an advanced mental health and addiction training program
• two psychiatrists, from Thailand and Trinidad and Tobago, for study visits of CAMH’s Child, Youth and Family; Concurrent Disorders; Schizophrenia; and Mood and Anxiety programs
• 24 foreign-trained physicians from 10 countries for observerships
• four U.S. academics for a roundtable on best practices in Aboriginal addiction and mental health, and one from Japan for intensive training in geriatric mental health.

CAMH was selected by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime as a resource centre for an international network of 19 drug treatment centres. Through this project, CAMH helped build capacity in addiction treatment and rehabilitation in under-resourced countries. A best practices guide for establishing community-based addiction treatment clinics was developed for circulation by UN agencies worldwide.

CAMH is making a difference around the world

Dr. Pablo Diaz from CAMH’s Schizophrenia Program reviews a mental health and addiction curriculum with primary health care workers in Chile.

Fortaleza, Brazil

• Week-long training on addiction and concurrent disorders for 70 primary care workers, in partnership with the ministries of health of Fortaleza and Brazil.

Santiago, Chile

• Two-week advanced training program for primary care providers. CAMH approach adopted as a national model.
• Six-month evaluation of a national child and youth addiction treatment pilot program, organized by the national drug control commission.

Hidalgo, Mexico

• Collaborative mental health and addiction training program for 40 health care providers, and leadership training program for 40 health care managers, in partnership with Mexico’s national institute of psychiatry. Agreement signed for a four-year statewide train-the-trainer program.
• Week-long exchange between CAMH Aboriginal Services and Mexico’s national institute of psychiatry. Ongoing mental health promotion training program for teachers and mental health promoters working with indigenous communities.

Caribbean

• Two-week addiction training program and three-day advanced program for 80 participants from eight countries, in partnership with the Caribbean Institute on Alcoholism and Other Drug Problems (CARIAD), University of the West Indies.

Making Connections: Integration in Mental Health and Addiction

• Message from the Chair and President
• Making connections between people and clinical care
  • Law and Mental Health Program
  • Child, Youth and Family Program
  • Connecting older people with mental health and addiction services
  • Linking therapy and culture competence: Expanding services to Aboriginal people
  • Integrating the social determinants of health into care, research and education
• Connecting research with everything else we do
  • Linking research to health promotion: From the neuron to the neighbourhood
• Linking communities locally, provincially and globally
  • Helping underserved areas
  • Educating local service providers throughout Ontario
  • Reaching francophone communities
  • Building capacity in the community
  • CAMH Provincial Services
  • Connecting CAMH expertise to needs around the globe
  • Building capacity in Sri Lanka
• Building on excellence
  • Building a world-class hospital
• Financial snapshot (PDF version only)
• CAMH by the numbers (PDF version only)
• Board of Trustees as of March 31, 2007
• Senior Management Group