The Defeat Depression Campaign provides hope and reduces stigma for people impacted by depression and other mood disorders.

Across Canada, mental health organizations, community groups, caring companies and volunteers are planning walks, runs, rides and other physical and social activities to raise funds and awareness for mental health.

Depression is a common illness that impacts many individuals and families and strikes all socioeconomic, educational, and cultural backgrounds. Physical activity such as walking and running, along with social interaction, can have a positive effect on mental well-being, and opening the dialogue on mental illness can help educate people and break down the barrier of stigma.

Our vision at the Evidentia Institute of Knowledge Synthesis is to accelerate innovation and collaboration, leading the charge in synthesizing knowledge across disciplines. We strive to create a world where informed decision-making and creative solutions to complex problems are the norm, powered by the collective wisdom and expertise of our global community.

Humana Community Services is one of the most highly regarded providers of children’s mental health services in southwestern Ontario. As a licensed and accredited children’s mental health agency, with over 50 years as a service provider, we offer a wide range of services to support children, youth and families coping with a mental health challenge.

Together, through a standardized screening and intake process, we assess the young person’s needs to collaboratively develop individualized treatment and service plans that focus on their abilities and areas for improvement.

The standardized Child and Youth Mental Health (ChYMH) assessment system developed by interRAI (an international collective of researchers and clinicians from over thirty countries) provides a coordinated approach to the delivery of children’s mental health care across agencies. The assessment allows us to prioritize safe practices in an effort to help reduce the severity and frequency of harmful behaviours.

(Humana, https://www.humanacs.org/children-youth-mental-health).

We are a respite home in Byron for children described as medically fragile and/or technologically dependent.

London Health Sciences Centre is one of Canada’s largest acute care teaching hospitals and the largest employer in the region with more than 13,000 staff and physicians.  As a regional referral centre, London Health Sciences Centre cares for the most medically complex patients including critically injured adults and children in southwestern Ontario and neighbouring regions. Through more than one million patient visits a year accessing a broad range of specialized clinical services. LHSC has been at the forefront of medicine in Canada for 149 years.  Building on the traditions of its founding hospitals to provide compassionate care in an academic teaching setting, London Health Sciences Centre is home to Children’s Hospital, University Hospital, Victoria Hospital, the Kidney Care Centre, two family medical centres, the Verspeeten Family Cancer Centre, and two research institutes – Children’s Health Research Institute and London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute.

As a teaching hospital and a recognized leader in medical discovery and health research, London Health Sciences Centre has a history of more than 70 international and national firsts and attracts top clinicians and researchers from around the world through its commitment to research and innovation. Through our affiliation with Western University and more than 30 other educational institutions, we train more than 4,000 medical and health-care professionals annually.

Look Good Feel Better supports those facing cancer with the appearance-related impact of cancer and its treatment. We hold monthly in-person workshops, teaching about skincare, sun care, cosmetics and hair loss.

We are seeking volunteers with skincare and cosmetic training to join the London team and support the delivery of these sessions. Once a month commitment for 3 hours.

Mental health advocacy organization founded in 2018

The MS Canada provides services to people with multiple sclerosis and their families and funds research to find the cause and cure for this disease. We have a membership of over 7,000 and are the only national voluntary organization in Canada that supports both MS research and services. Since our founding in 1948, the core support of MS Canada has been from tens of thousands of dedicated individuals, companies and foundations in communities across Canada. MS Canada receives almost no funding from government.

MS Canada is governed by a board of directors comprised of 14 volunteer members who are elected annually.

Some 1,500 volunteers serve on MS Canada national, division and chapter boards and committees. An estimated 13,500 women and men are volunteers for service programs, fundraising events, public awareness campaigns and social action activities.
<h2><strong>Our Vision</strong></h2>
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<h2><strong>Our Values</strong></h2>
<strong>Impact-driven</strong>
We make a difference.

Collaborative
We work together.

Compassionate
We help.

Bold
We think big.

Resilient
We do not give up.

Merrymount exists to help children and families as they navigate through and beyond crisis, to build stronger, healthier families.

Merrymount’s safe, supportive and strength-based intervention and care builds stronger families and children that have the support they need to grow up strong, form healthy relationships, and know they are valued and loved.

Merrymount has been providing these programs and services to London’s families and children since 1874, and is the only centre of its kind in Canada.

Mood Disorders Society of Canada (MDSC) is a national non-profit mental health charity. MDSC is engaged in a wide range of projects and initiatives designed to support the inclusion of persons with mental illnesses in Canadian society and has taken a lead proactive role in public policy and program development in many capacities to improve access to treatment, inform research, and shape programming.

Founded in 1995, OPACC's mission is to support families of children diagnosed with cancer in Ontario.

PHSS is a non-profit organization that provides unique and flexible supports and services so that people with complex medical, physical, and/or developmental needs can live the life they choose as part of the community.

PHSS supports more than 250 individuals in more than 60 locations across Ontario, providing 24-hour residential supports, day and overnight respite, specialized complex medical care and intensive behavioural supports, recreational programs, and support for individuals living at home with their families. We do not believe in discharging people from our supports because their needs increase or change; our services are flexible and innovative, shaped around the needs of the people we support and always adjusting in response to changes in their circumstances.

Through a unique suite of individual services and supports, PHSS provides an alternative to institutional care. PHSS hires highly qualified staff to provide support in over 60 accessible locations throughout Ontario, and each location is home to between two-five adults. By offering home-based supports, we reduce the pressure on hospitals and institutions and in many cases, substantially reduce the cost of care.

We are committed to encouraging and creating an inclusive community where individuals with disabilities have access to all the community has to offer and are included in a valued and meaningful way. Because we believe that family and friends are an important part of life, we seek to build support circles and encourage people supported to play an active role in the decision-making process.