Ontario Shores acknowledges the lands and people of the Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation that are covered under the Williams Treaties. We are situated on the Traditional Territory of the Mississaugas, a branch of the greater Anishinaabeg Nation which includes Algonquin, Ojibway, Odawa and...
To be successful, Ontario's Roadmap to Wellness needs a comprehensive and fully-funded plan to reduce wait times: combined statement from Ontario’s mental health and addiction providers. The province’s leading public providers of adult, child and youth mental health and addiction care agree that the...
Ontario Shores has begun a year-long celebration recognizing 100 years of delivering mental health care. The specialty mental health hospital unveiled its 100 year brand as well as a portion of its plans around its 100th anniversary at this morning’s kickoff event, which marks one full year before...
Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences (Ontario Shores) will turn 100 years old on Wednesday, October 23 and we are celebrating with a host of planned activities. Over the last 12 months Ontario Shores has been in celebration mode thanks to the efforts of our Ambassadors of Hope, six...
Today, Lorne Coe, MPP for Whitby, and Peter Bethlenfalvy MPP for Pickering-Uxbridge announced that the following hospitals in the Region of Durham will receive additional operating funding this fiscal year: Lakeridge Health will receive an additional $12.3 million starting in 2022/23, which...
September 30 marks National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day. On this day, we remember Indigenous children who never returned to their families and communities and honour the Survivors of the residential school system. As a nation, we acknowledge this system's painful legacy and...
October is Mental Illness Awareness Month and we are proud to welcome everyone to Ontario Shores for Mental Health and Recovery Day on Wednesday, October 19, 2022. Throughout the day a series of speakers with lived experience will engage in conversations on a variety of topics impacting mental...
In recognition of Mental Illness Awareness Month, Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences (Ontario Shores) will host a day-long speaker series on Wednesday, October 19 featuring people with lived experiences sharing stories of recovery. Held in the Lakeview Cafeteria (Building 5, Level 1)...
NEWS RELEASE Ontario Connecting Children and Youth in Durham Region to Care Close to Home $8.4 million boost in funding to expand pediatric services December 20, 2023 Ministry of Health WHITBY — The Ontario government is investing more than $8.4 million to increase access to pediatric services for...
In this episode we're on site at CMHA's Mental Health For All conference. Day 2 at the conference we sit down with Michael Prosserman (@BboyPiecez), Founder and Executive Director, Unity Charity (unitycharity.com). The #MindVine podcast is hosted by Communications team members Darryl Mathers (...
In this episode we are on site at the Regent Theatre in Oshawa with keyboardist Graham Wright and guitarist Josh Hook of Tokyo Police Club (@TokyoPoliceClub), this years Imagine Festival headliners. The Imagine Festival featured an introduction by Dani Stover, Announcer @Indie88Toronto (@danigray)...
In this episode we are on site at Lakeridge Health Oshawa with Chris Cull, Founder of Inspire (@inspire_canada) and Paul McGary, Director, Mental Health and Pinewood Centre, Lakeridge Health . This episode of the #MindVine podcast is hosted by Communications team member Chris Bovie (@ChrisBovie1).
In this episode we're at the Champions of Mental Health Gala in Ottawa with guest Ray McGuire, British Columbia Aboriginal Network on Disability Society (@BCANDS1) and 2018 Community (Organization) Champion of Mental Health. This episode of the #MindVine Podcast is hosted by Communications team...
The Hon. Christine Elliott, Ontario Deputy Premier and Minister of Health; and Mary Deacon, Chair of Bell Let’s Talk joined the #MindVine podcast on Bell Let's Talk Day on location at 777 Bay Street, Toronto. This episode of the #MindVine Podcast is hosted by Communications team member Chris Bovie (...
In Episode 106 of the #MindVine mental health podcast, Michelle Michener-Rousell, a social worker in the Ontario Structured Psychotherapy program at Ontario Shores and Shauna Moore, our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Lead, discuss National day for Truth and Reconciliation, Orange Shirt Week and the...
In recognition of Bell Let’s Talk Day and its 2023 theme of ‘Let’s Change This’, Dr. Phil Klassen, VP of Medical Affairs at Ontario Shores, and John Henry, Regional Chair for Durham Region, discuss mental health and our hospital’s efforts to secure funding to build Canada’s first ever emergency...