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CAMIMH

About the Canadian Alliance on Mental Illness and Mental Health

The nineteen member organizations of the Canadian Alliance on Mental Illness and Mental Health (CAMIMH) represent all elements of the mental health continuum. Consumers and their families, researchers, and all manner of practitioners including physicians, psychologists and psychiatric nurses, are supporters of the Alliance and its messages. Together, these organizations constitute a vibrant network of national, provincial and local organizations that stretch from coast to coast.

Created in October 1998, CAMIMH's core purpose is to put mental illness and mental health on the national health and social policy agendas. It wishes to influence and advise on mental health policy at the national level as a unified voice of consumer, family, community and professional organizations. Its overriding commitment is to improving services and supports for persons facing mental illness and/or mental health obstacles as well as to secure strategies that will enhance the potential for positive mental health among Canadians.

CAMIMH was founded by the Canadian Psychiatric Association (CPA), the Mood Disorders Society of Canada, the National Network for Mental Health, the Schizophrenia Society of Canada and the Canadian Mental Health Association.

CAMIMH members are committed to working together to develop a strong national voice on mental illness and mental health in Canada and to bring other stakeholders to the table in generating ideas and consensus for a national vision and action plan for mental health and illness in Canada.

CAMIMH's members are: