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Crisis in Canada: Does the Mental Health System Violate Human Rights?

 

Join the Schizophrenia Society of Ontario and a panel of international experts on June 3 for a discussion on access to mental health supports as a human right with a special guest lecture by Dr. Soumitra Pathare.

Dr. Soumitra Pathare is a psychiatrist based in Pune, India. His main area of work concentrates on mental health policy, legislation and human rights. Soumitra has worked as a consultant to many countries reforming their mental health policies and laws. Most recently, he provided consultation to the Indian Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in drafting new mental health law.

Other Panelists include:

Howard Chodos – Mental Health Commission of Canada

Milesh Hamlai – Altruist (India), Ashoka Fellowship recipient

Kwame McKenzie – Wellesley Institute

Diane Wintemute – ARCH Disability Law Centre

Tucker Gordon –  Empowerment Council

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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.