In response to the abrupt closure of the Asian Initiative in Mental Health (AIM) on June 18, 2025, a broad coalition of healthcare leaders, advocates, and community members formed the RE-AIM Coalition to demand accountability, restore vital services, and reimagine culturally and linguistically appropriate mental health care.
We invite you to join us in this growing movement to ensure equitable mental health support for all.
Our Demand & Our vision
Our Demand
We call on UHN (University Health Network) to:
- Immediately reinstate AIM (Asian Initiative in Mental Health) to its full capacity.
- Convene a cross-sector consultation forum that includes affected communities and frontline voices to ensure culturally safe, equitable mental health care for Chinese, Portuguese, and other racialized groups.
Our Vision
RE-AIM is more than a mental health initiative—it is a movement to restore healing, dignity, and cultural connection.
- A renewed Centre of Excellence in cultural psychiatry and community mental health
- Rooted in equity and lived experience
- Advancing care that is culturally grounded, community-driven, and evidence-informed
Together, we are shaping a future where mental health care reflects the diversity of those it serves.
How You Can Help after our online petition
- Download our email template and write to Dr. Kevin Smith, CEO of UHN (kevin.smith@uhn.ca). Please copy his Executive Assistant, Grace Ivo (Grace.Ivo@uhn.ca), and the Coalition (info@re-aim.ca).
- Stay tuned for details about the Community Forum and plan to join us.
- Keep spreading the word about why culturally appropriate mental health care matters.
- Sign an online declaration at the Change.org : https://www.change.org/supporting-culturally-specific-mental-health
- If you signed our petition and provided your contact information, we will continue to share updates on our campaign through email and on our website. If you have not shared your contact information, please sign up for our email updates through the Contact Us page on our website
Recent News
August 27 Informing our Supporters
2025-08-27 Today we sent the following email update to petition signatories regarding our campaign.
CTV News Toronto Watch: The end of a Mental Health Program
2025-0825 The end of a mental health program tailored specifically to the Chinese community raises concerns| CTV’s health reporter Pauline Chan reports.
Press Release: RE-AIM Coalition Reaches 1,000 Signatories and Delivers Open Letter to UHN CEO on AIM Closure
August 20, 2025, Toronto, ON – The RE-AIM Coalition today announced it has reached a milestone of 1,000 signatories on its petition to reinstate the Asian Initiative in Mental Health (AIM) to its full capacity. Endorsed by service providers, healthcare…
Black Psychiatrists of America letter August 19, 2025
2025-08-19 Stephen McLeod-Bryant, MD, President of Black Psychiatrists of America Inc. Wrote to Dr. Kevin Smith, President & CEO of UHN for their urgent support for the restoration of AIM.
Transcultural Psychiatry Section of the CPA Letter to CEO Letter, August 11, 2025
2025-08-18 Dr. Eric Jarvis, Chair, Transcultural Psychiatry Section of the CPA and a cultural psychiatrist at McGill University with over 30 years of experience, wrote to Dr. Kevin Smith, President & CEO of UHN to express his Concern about dissolution…