As she pushes the button to turn on the new laptop, Suzanne becomes visibly engaged. Her face lights up, her posture straightens, she moves her chair closer and prepares to enter cyber space. A resident at St. Joseph’s Steele Street group ...

The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) officially opened the doors to its new Research Imaging Centre -- the first of its kind in Canada where positron emission tomography (PET), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and genetic imaging will be ...

When the shovel hit the ground this spring for St. Joseph’s new mental health buildings, the soil was turning on a new era. “This is a once in a lifetime opportunity,” says Dave Crockett, vice president, facilities planning at St. ...

It’s been 10 years since St. Joseph’s Health Centre inToronto(St. Joe’s) first opened its Child and Adolescent Mental Health program in what was renovated space in the paediatric unit. Now a decade later, this program will be housed for the ...

The years ahead promise exciting developments as Grand River Hospital works to instill hope and foster recovery for people in the Waterloo Region living with a mental illness and their families. “From late 2008 to last year, we provided care in ...

Margareta Rawlins was a bit anxious but mostly excited when she heard her husband, who was receiving care atSt. Joseph’s Regional Mental Health Care London (RMHCL) was going to be transferred to a hospital close to their home town ofCambridge. ...

People often say that everyone is affected by cancer – everyone knows someone who has had it. I would say the same about mental illness – everyone is affected by it. Whether or not you know it, I think it’s ...

Eddie Kwong presents his tarragon chicken dish to Chef Burpee and answers the chef’s questions with an enthusiastic “Yes, chef!” and “No, chef!” Visitors to this culinary program kitchen lab feel like they are at the taping of reality cooking ...

“What words do we use in our society to describe someone with a mental illness?” Allison Potts asks Lakeridge Health emergency department staff during an Opening Minds Project session. Crazy, violent and scary are some of the terms commonly used by ...