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www .cmha .ca. The Canadian Mental Health Association ( CMHA) is a Canadian non-profit mental health organization that focuses on resources, programs and advocacy. It was founded on April 22, 1918, by Dr. Clarence M. Hincks and Clifford W. Beers. Originally named the Canadian National Committee for Mental Hygiene, it is one of the largest and ...
Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention (CASP)/L'Association canadienne pour la prevention du suicide (ACPS) was established in 1985. It is a non-governmental organization which brings attention to the problem of suicide in Canada and advocates for services, research, education and other supports in the area of suicide prevention and bereavement, across diverse Canadian cultures.
The Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC) is a national non-profit organization created by the Canadian government in 2007 in response to a senate committee tasked to study mental health, mental illness, and addiction. The committee appointed Michael J. L. Kirby as the first chairperson. The MHCC was endorsed by all the provinces and ...
Updated July 9, 2017 at 6:24 AM. Last summer, three 12-year-old girls from a small indigenous community in Canada made a suicide pact, according to their families. Since then, their families say ...
On 2 February 2023, the Canadian government introduced legislation to extend the temporary exclusion of eligibility in circumstances where a person's sole underlying medical condition is a mental illness for a period of one-year, until 17 March 2024. [14] In 2024, this was further delayed until 2027. [15]
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Founder. Michael Schratter. Ride Don't Hide is an annual charity event organized by the Canadian Mental Health Association to raise awareness for, and ultimately defeat, the stigma surrounding mental illness. The event was called the Community Bike Ride in 2009, the ride eventually became Ride Don't Hide in 2012 [1] after Michael Schratter ...
Montreal. Died. April 6, 2020. (2020-04-06) (aged 70) Toronto. Occupation (s) Advocate for psychiatric consumer-survivors, others living in poverty or precarity. Patricia Ann Capponi, OOnt CM (July 1, 1949 – April 6, 2020) was a Canadian writer and an advocate for mental health issues and poverty issues in Canada.