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
October 20th, 2025 – Using ‘Integration’ to Silence Culturally Specific Care by Dr. Ted Lo and Kennes Lin published on Healthy Debate
RE-AIM member, Kennes Lin and Dr. Ted Lo published an article on Healthy Debate, titled “Using ‘Integration’ to Silence Culturally […]
October 12th, 2025 – Support letter by Cultural Psychiatrist Expert, Dr. Jaswant Guzder
Professor and Child and Cultural Psychiatrist Dr. Guzder, with long experience at McGill and now UBC writes to condemn the […]
September 28th, 2025 – World Association of Cultural Psychiatry Supports RE-AIM at Closing Ceremony of the Conference
At the closing ceremony of WACP Conference, Prof. Dr. Mario H. Braakman, psychiatrist, ethnologist, and President of the World Association […]
September 27th, 2025 – RE-AIM held roundtable at World Association of Cultural Psychiatry Conference in Tokyo
At the WACP Conference, jointly held with the Pacific Rim College of Psychiatrists at Tokyo, the RE-AIM Coalition held a […]
August 25th, 2025 – Community Leaders met with UHN Psychiatry Leadership at UHN
RE-AIM Coalition leaders met with UHN Psychiatry Leadership, Dr. Ishrat Husain, Dr. Aristotle Voineskos, and Charlene Reynolds. UHN Psychiatry Leadership […]