Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Foundation
Toronto-based fundraising arm of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.
Last updated September 15, 2026
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Overview
The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Foundation is the Toronto-based fundraising arm of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). CAMH itself is a mental health facility whose Queen Street West site has been home to a mental health facility for over 160 years, and today's 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.
History
The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Foundation is the Toronto-based fundraising arm of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). CAMH's Queen Street West site has been home to a mental health facility for over 160 years, since the opening of the Provincial Lunatic Asylum in 1850. The institution underwent several name changes: Provincial Lunatic Asylum, renamed Asylum for the Insane in 1871, Hospital for the Insane in 1905, Ontario Hospital, Toronto as of 1919, Queen Street Mental Health Centre in 1996, and finally Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in 1998. Today's 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.
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