Media & Letters
Our Press Release and Updates
August 27 Informing our Supporters
2025-08-27 Today we sent the following email update to petition signatories regarding our campaign.
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…
Press Release: RE-AIM Coalition Launches Website to Mobilize Support for Equitable Mental Health Services
August 7, 2025 RE-AIM Coalition has launched a new website [www.re-aim.ca] to inform the public, mobilize support, and demand action. The site provides updates on the ongoing campaign, offers background information, and features a petition that has already garnered more…
Our Media coverage
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.
OMNI Mandarin: 关注多伦多西区医院亚裔人士精神健康计划
2025-08-10 6月中旬, 多伦多UHN大学医疗网络,在多伦多西区医院设置的亚裔人士精神健康计划AIM,突然无预警地关闭了, 引发了社区的错愕; 在要求医院解释却没有回音之下, 有医生、病人、社区组织及维权团体, 随即组成RE-AIM联盟, 要求医院给个说法, 恢复服务。 AIM是个什么样的计画? 重要性在哪里? 目前有什么新发展? 我们今天就邀请RE-AIM 联盟发言人吴婷婷, 和大家一起关注。
OMNI Cantonese: 專訪:西區醫院亞裔精神健康中心突然關閉 引發社區關注
2025-08-08 UHN 多倫多大學健康網絡轄下的西區醫院 The Toronto Western Hospital , 當中的亞裔人士精神健康中心上月中突然關閉, 華裔社區要求院方解釋原因, 並恢復相關服務; 醫院其後澄清, 服務只是併入門診, 並沒有關閉, 到底病人及關注組織是否滿意院方的解釋? 併入門診後的服務貿素及數量, 能否維持? 專訪多倫多西區醫院亞裔人士精神健康計劃的關注聯盟成員吳婷婷Amy.
Letters of Concern and Support
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…
OCASI (Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants) letter August 14, 2025
2025-08-14 Debbie Douglas (Executive Director) and Alfred Lam (President) of OCASI wrote to Dr. Kevin Smith CEO, UHN.





