What began in the 1850s as a “lunatic asylum” is now being replaced with a health centre that will set new standards for best practices in care. Clients will benefit from a healthy and healing care environment, and integration into the neighbourhood—as well as better connections between CAMH programs and services and supports in the community.

Hundreds gathered at CAMH's Queen Street site in October 2006 to celebrate the groundbreaking for the first phase of CAMH's ambitious redevelopment project. Dr. Paul Garfinkel, President and CEO, digs in with David Caplan, Minister of Public Infrastructure Renewal, and George Smitherman, Minister of Health and Long-Term Care.

The redevelopment will transform the isolated Queen Street campus from a stigmatized mental health facility into a vibrant neighbourhood. With streets, shops, parks and businesses alongside innovative new health care facilities, the award-winning project will integrate client care into the fabric of a revitalized community.

On the west side of the site, four new buildings that will house clients in a home-like setting are now taking shape. Early in 2008, when the first clients move in, a new era for people with mental health and addiction issues will begin.

Through this multi-year, multi-phase redevelopment project, CAMH is fully integrating our programs and bringing research together with health care, education, health promotion and policy, to improve treatment and quality of life for people with mental health and addiction concerns.

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