“There is no health without mental health”

1 in 5 people will experience mental illness severe enough to affect their daily activities.

4 in 5 will be affected by the mental illness of someone close to them. ¹

Help us help others achieve their best health.

Please support mental health care delivery, education and research.

“Vocational Services has been very helpful to me. There are a lot of options for me and great programs to participate in. I am happy with the way things are going and I look forward to the future”   Andrew

Ontario Shores Foundation for Mental Health is an independently incorporated charity whose purpose is to raise funds in support of Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences (formerly Whitby Mental Health Centre) and its partners who provide services and support to Ontario Shores’ patients and their families. High priorities for funding are innovative care initiatives, education, research, mental illness awareness and mental health promotion programs, and capital needs.

Established in March 2009 to provide fundraising leadership to the Hospital, the Foundation received its first gift in April.  In gratitude for gifts received in our first year, the Foundation will publicly recognize the donors of these gifts as Founding Donors on an ongoing basis.

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To make a donation by phone, please call 905.430.4055 or 1.800.341.6323, ext 6021

Our Goal

Awareness of the devastation that mental illness and addiction causes individuals, their families and society is growing across Canada.  But there is still much to be done to:

• reduce the stigma of mental illness and addiction
• open up the way for earlier diagnosis, easier access to treatment and better support for the journey of recovery.

Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences’ programs are addressing these needs.

Ontario Shores Foundation’s goal is to provide the financial resources that will bring these important programs to everyone who needs them.

(1)     Canadian Psychiatric Association at http://www.cap-apc.org