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CMHA Toronto provides mental health workshops and trainings across Toronto to help people and organizations develop the skills they need to create and maintain safe living and working environments. By addressing the needs of our community, we can promote mental health and wellness for all.
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Mental Health For All
At CMHA Toronto, we take a client-first, recovery-oriented approach to supporting people and their families when they experience mental health challenges or live with mental illness. By integrating health and social care, we provide services that aid in long-term wellness.
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By integrating health and social care, we provide services that aid in long-term wellness including housing, employment, community connections and so much more. Our community-based programming means we can partner with clients to support all aspects of their wellbeing: mental, physical, financial, emotional and spiritual.
800+
affordable and supportive housing units to keep people living with mental illness housed.
6000+
clinical clients participate in CMHA Toronto programs each year
5900+
clients benefit from CMHA Toronto Information and Decision Support services each year
95%
of clients felt CMHA Toronto services helped them deal more effectively with life challenges
At CMHA Toronto, we celebrate the diversity that makes up Toronto's cultural fabric, and commit to serving all members of the community. Our doors are open to provide community-based mental health support to individuals and their families from all races, cultures, religions, gender identities and expressions, sexual orientations, abilities, and ages - at every stage of their mental health journey.
As a registered charity, CMHA Toronto relies on the support of our funders and donors to offer programs to those in need.
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VOLUNTEER
CMHA Toronto volunteers play a crucial role in enhancing the well-being of our community.
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STUDENT
PLACEMENT
CMHA Toronto offers placements for students in social work, project management, paralegal, nursing, occupational therapy and more.
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Help create belonging and hope by contributing to CMHA Toronto and our leading community-based mental health work.
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Through a new partnership with Toronto Public Library, CMHA Toronto is helping make mental health education, practical wellness tools, and community connections more accessible in familiar neighbourhood spaces.
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We’re delighted to introduce our community to CMHA Toronto’s two newest directors, Carol Carr and Paras Dharamshi, who joined the Board of Directors in September 2026.
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Co-op student Claire McCarten attended a CMHA Toronto-TPL workshop at Fairview Library and shares her experience seeing community mental health in action.
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Many people know someone who is struggling with suicidal thoughts — a friend, family member, neighbour, or colleague — but may not know exactly how to respond in the moment.
In Part 1 of this two-part series, we look at the practical aspects of suicide prevention for individuals and those they may be supporting, and the resources available through CMHA Toronto to understand and respond to suicide risk.
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Here are some general dos and don’ts from CMHA Toronto’s recent Changing the Narrative: Recognizing Suicide Risk in a Stigmatized World webinar.
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It is no surprise to anyone who held a crayon in kindergarten, picked up a pencil or paintbrush in high school, or has merely admired the artistic endeavours of others, that arts and crafts offer joy and self-discovery. Thanks to a grant from the Toronto Arts Council, CMHA Toronto has been able to expand its arts programming so that clients can enjoy the stress relief, self-expression, and social connection that come from making art together.
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Whether a maker or an appreciator, there are many benefits to doing art. And the great news is that you do not need artistic talent to experience them. The simple physical act of creating art can lower stress hormones like cortisol, activate the brain’s reward pathways, and provide a healthy non-verbal outlet to process complex emotions.
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Community mental health nursing brings a deep connection between nurses and patients and offers the rewards of accompanying people during their recovery in a way that acute care nursing usually does not.
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For many people experiencing homelessness or precarious housing, serious mental illness or substance use challenges, the greatest barrier to health care isn’t the lack of services. It’s the lack of a system designed to help them access those services — and stay connected to them.
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West Office
700 Lawrence Ave W,
Suite #480 Toronto,
ON M6A 3B4
East Office
1200 Markham Rd,
Suite #500 Scarborough,
ON M1H 3C3
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