Annual Report to the Community 2006 - 2007

CAMH’s Felix Munger (second from left) walks with Juanita Nathan , community outreach worker with Youthlink, and with Goperajah Arulananthan (left) and Kalaiventhan Kanagarajah (right), both youth outreach workers with the Canadian Tamil Youth Development Centre.

“There are enormous needs in the Tamil community in Scarborough, but few services,” says Juanita Nathan. She is a community outreach worker with Youthlink, a multi-service agency for young people and their families. “Most Tamil families come from Sri Lanka and are dealing with posttraumatic stress from civil war, as well as the stress of establishing a new life here. Some young people are dropping out of school, getting involved in gang activities and abusing alcohol and drugs.”

Juanita is preparing to launch the first addiction program for Toronto’s Tamil youth, a joint project between Youthlink and the Canadian Tamil Youth Development Centre. CAMH’s Youth Outreach Services will provide the curriculum and help provide training. The program will address specific needs in the Tamil community and build local capacity in addiction prevention and counselling.

The Youthlink program is one of seven addiction projects funded by Scarborough Addiction Services Partnership (SASP), which is supported by CAMH. “Part of our focus is on building the addiction capacity of ethno-specific agencies in the community,” says CAMH’s Felix Munger, SASP Project Manager. With funding from the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, SASP provides small program grants plus training, resources and networking opportunities for up to three years.

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