A Provincial Collaboration
The LHIN Exchange is a collaborative project of provincial organizations who are committed to improving the delivery of mental health and addiction services in Ontario, and to supporting the needs of those living with mental health and addictions problems, their families, and their communities. Together, our organizations and our respective branches, members and satellite offices provide services and supports across Ontario for thousands of individuals and families living with mental illness and addiction in community and institutional settings.
ADDICTIONS ONTARIO is a non-profit, charitable organization representing individuals and facilities providing addiction services. Addictions Ontario has provided leadership for excellence in addiction services in Ontario by developing and promoting quality standards of care, and disseminating information that helps members to effectively meet the needs of their clients.
The CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION (CMHA), ONTARIO, is a non-profit provincial association committed to improving services and supports for people with mental illness and their families, and to the promotion of mental health in Ontario. With 32 branches that provide community mental health services throughout the province, CMHA Ontario achieves its mission through public education, knowledge transfer, analysis of public issues and advocacy for healthy public policy and an effective and efficient health system.
The CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH (CAMH) is Canada's leading mental health and addiction teaching hospital. CAMH works to transform the lives of people affected by addiction and mental illness, by applying the latest in scientific advances, through integrated and compassionate clinical practice, health promotion, education and research. CAMH has central facilities located in Toronto and 32 community sites throughout the province.
The ONTARIO ASSOCIATION OF PATIENT COUNCILS (OAPC) (oapc [at] sympatico [dot] ca) brings together represenatives from patient councils in psychiatic hospitals. The OAPC is a collective voice working toward improving the mental health care system through systemic advocacy and promoting the civil rights of citizens living with mental illness and/or addiction.
The ONTARIO FEDERATION OF COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTION PROGRAMS represents more than 230 front-line, community-based providers who recognize clients and their families as the core of their organizations, and who ensure clients' and family members' basic human rights and dignity. Since 1988, the Federation has envisioned a community mental health and addiction system that is accessible, flexible, comprehensive and responsive to the needs of individuals, families and communities; and that is shaped by many partnerships, by dignity and by accountability to those it serves.
The ONTARIO PEER DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE (ODPI) strives to provide a strong, cohesive and unified voice for consumer/survivor organizations in Ontario. It develops quality, valued and responsive supports and services to meet the needs of its membership. OPDI promotes equitable funding and the expansion of peer-driven services in communities across the province.