Annual Report 2022-2023

A message from our leadership

To our CAMH Community,

Each year, the CAMH and CAMH Foundation Annual Report offers us the opportunity to do three key things: reflect, celebrate and anticipate.

With CAMH’s 25th anniversary upon us, we’ve had time to reflect on where we’ve been together. Since the early years of our formation in 1998, CAMH laid the groundwork for an ambitious vision that would see the consolidation of world-class clinical and research facilities. This vision has always been about so much more than the physical transformation of our campus. It’s about transforming how CAMH interacts with an evolving community and how mental health care is delivered to the people we serve. And as you’ll read in this report, we’ve made exciting progress.

This year, among many achievements, we celebrate embarking on the final phase of our bold redevelopment. In February, we launched No One Left Behind, the world’s largest fundraising campaign to support hospital-based mental health research. With a goal of $500 million, the campaign supports life-saving mental health research programs at CAMH and the building of a new Research & Discovery Centre. This call to action comes at a time when the world needs CAMH most. We’re in a global mental health crisis, with demand for care surging. There were over 16,000 visits to CAMH’s Emergency Department in 2022, a 10 per cent increase from the year before. We’ve also seen a continued rise in demand for virtual care, with over 100,000 appointments last year. To help us serve more people, CAMH recruited 864 new staff members this year, including 233 nurses, to join our world-class team.

As we look ahead to the future with great anticipation, we must build on the momentum we’ve created over the last 25 years. We’ve made great strides to address the stigma associated with mental illness, enhanced mental health diagnostics and treatments and made phenomenal discoveries in brain health. A significant opportunity is on the horizon to ensure people living with mental illness have the same access to high-quality care as people needing treatment in other parts of medicine. We are confident that CAMH will continue to inspire hope by leading more breakthrough research discoveries, delivering exceptional care and ensuring that mental health and addictions remain on the national agenda.

Thank you for your support, leadership and partnership this past year. We truly believe the best is yet to come and we look forward to continuing to work together to change mental health care forever.

Progress toward better care

We’re in the midst of a global mental health crisis. More people than ever are seeking help and support. To meet this growing demand, CAMH is driving forward new ways of delivering more personalized care when people need it most.