CMHA 1962-2012

By CMHA

  • To Kill a Mockingbird is the top movie

  • Charter Meeting for CMHA/Peel

  • John Diefenbaker is PM of Canada

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    CMHA Peel 50 years

  • John F Kennedy was assassinated

  • White Cross Information Centre opens

  • The Sound of Music is the top movie of the year

  • Drop in Centre opens 2 afternoons per week

  • Queen Street Asylum changes name to Queen St Mental Health Centre

  • Peel Assessment Workshop established; $1000 donated for psychiatric unit

  • Pierre Trudeau became PM of Canada

  • World's largest airplane Boeing 747 makes 1st commercial flight.

  • Neil Armstrong is the first man to set foot on the Moon

  • Love Story is the top movie of the year

  • Distress Line opened

  • Region of Peel was first incorporated- Population was 335,126

  • Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen

  • Canada hosted Summer Olympic Games in Montreal

  • Peel Aftercare Resources (PAR South) opens

  • Elvis Presley Dies

  • Hazel McCallion becomes Mayor of Mississauga

  • PAR North opens

  • First Cell Phone call made by Dr Martin Cooper of Motorola

  • Mississauga Train derailment in Streetsville

  • Sandy Milakovic starts at CMHA/Peel as PAR Coordinator

  • Constitution Act- The Canadian Constitution came home; Charter of Rights and Freedoms

  • Establishment of 24 hour housing for ex-psychiatric patients

  • Development of Mission statement;

  • PAR renamed Peel Activities and Rehabilitation

  • Canada hosts the Winter Oympics in Calgary- wins 5 medals

  • PAR Clubhouse relocates to 250 Clarence St.

  • Region of Peel Population was 732,414

  • "Nothing Compares to You" is the Top song in Canada

  • Davidson Scholarship Fund established

  • SHIP incorporated as independent Community MH Program

  • United Way provided funding to CMHA/Peel

  • Board adopted Carver Model of Governance

  • Mental Illness Awareness Trng for 1000 Peel Police Officers

  • Microsoft Windows 95 was released

  • "Batman Forever" was the top movie

  • Eden Place and Resource Centre opens up

  • Court Support Services starts up

  • CAMH was formed from the merger of the Queen Street Mental Health Centre, the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, the Addiction Research Foundation, and the Donwood Institute.

  • Outreach Program for homeless starts up

  • Youth Net opens

  • A New Millenium begins and Y2K passes uneventfully

  • First business plan for the agency is written

  • CMHA/Peel website is launched

  • Terrorists bomb World Trade Centre In NYC

  • CMHA/Peel 40th anniversary is celebrated

  • Facebook, a social networking site is launched

  • Funding received for ATR Case Management Program

  • Resource Centre, Court Services and ATR moves to 2 County Court Blvd.

  • FACT Peel plus starts up

  • Homeworks program starts up

  • released; The Mental Health Commission was set up by the Federal govt

  • ACT team starts up

  • CMHA/Peel Budget is 5.5 million

  • CMHA/Peel revises mission statement to present form

  • COAST team is launched in partnership with St Elizabeth Health Care and Peel Police

  • Winter Olympics in Vancouver- Canada wins 26 medals

  • Tag line-Promoting Mental Health, One mind at a time" is created

  • Katy Perry - Firework is the top song in Canada

  • Region of Peel Population- 1.3 million

  • Relocation To Community Door 7700 Hurontario Street

  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2 is the top movie of the year

  • Receives accrediation