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Every Door is the Right Door: Mental Health Disparities in Ontario

Mental health outcomes are distributed unequally in different populations in Ontario:

  • low-income women are three times as likely as higher income women to report their mental health as poor or fair
  • low-income men are five times as likely as higher income men to report their mental health as poor or fair
  • there is a clear mental health gradient – the percentage who report their mental health as only fair or poor rises as income decreases

Focus on Equity , a joint initiative between the Wellesley Institute and the Canadian Mental Health Association provides feedback on the proposed strategic directions and priorities in the Ministry’s paper.  We have endorsed the document and congratulate the Government of Ontario for their commitment to equity in mental health.  Focus on outlines an equity roadmap for mental health in Ontario.

Every Door is the Right Door is a consultation paper developed by the Minister’s Advisory Group of the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care. It sets out a framework for a proposed 10 year strategy to improve services and supports for all Ontarians.

Acknowledgement of Traditional Land

We wish to acknowledge this land on which the Wellesley Institute operates. For thousands of years, it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land.

Revised by the Ceremonial Committee at the University of Toronto Office of Indigenous Initiatives in April 2021.