CAMH News & Stories
In the headlines or behind the scenes, CAMH stories always aim to inform, engage, and enlighten.
Novel Coronavirus updates
Active screening, closures and new visitor restrictions in effect
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Physician psychotherapy unavailable to ninety-seven percent of people with urgent mental health needs in Ontario
CMAJ Open study urges wider access to publicly-funded therapy
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CAMH celebrates the launch of womenmind™
New philanthropic program will focus on closing the gender gap in mental health
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CAMH Launches First-of-its-Kind Workplace Mental Health Playbook
Helping Business Leaders navigate mental illness; a leading cause of workplace disability in Canada
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Research News: Study finds potential new treatment for preventing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Nearly one in ten Canadians have PTSD
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Research News: One in eight Ontario pregnancies are to women with a disability
Pregnancy rates for women with disabilities in Ontario have risen in the past 15 years, according to study.
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CAMH partners with Healthy Debate to support youth with lived experience to promote change
CAMH and Healthy Debate have launched a new partnership with the creation of the site, Our Voice Matters.
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CAMH accepts recommendations from external review panel
Takes immediate action to improve patient recovery and public safety
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Research News: The most cost-effective form of brain stimulation
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is more cost-effective than electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), according to a new study
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Changing the statistics around gender-based violence
gender-based violence continues to be a global epidemic. At least one in three women and girls experience physical or sexual violence in their lifetime. In Canada, 67 per cent of people reportedly know at least one woman who had experienced physical or sexual abuse. Every act of gender-based violence is one too many.
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CAMH forms key partnerships in addressing opioid crisis
When the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario decided it needed to expand the scope of its annual conference on Opioid Use Disorder to include more partners, they turned to CAMH.
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Striving for equality on Transgender Day of Remembrance
On Transgender Day of Remembrance people commemorate the lives of transgender people who have been killed due to violence, hatred and prejudice.
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