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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…
News Release: Chinese Canadian Communities Demands Respect, Transparency and Accountability from UHN
7/28/2025/Toronto- RE-AIM Coalition demands respect and immediate actions from UHN to address the abrupt closure on June 18, 2025 of the Asian Initiative in Mental Health (AIM) without consultation with patients, community partners, and internal staff.
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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.
【明報專訊】年處理病患4500人次 事前未與合作單位協商多倫多精神健康計劃突煞停 華人失依靠組「恢復AIM聯盟」
【明報專訊】大多區唯一針對華人社區精神健康患者的服務項目，上月突然被多倫多大學醫療網絡(University Health Network，UHN)叫停，各界人士要求與UHN首席執行官會面，希望盡快恢復。
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.