The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (College Street site) is a

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. It is located at 250 College Street, just east of

Spadina Avenue Spadina Avenue (, less commonly ) is one of the most prominent streets in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Running through the western section of downtown, the road has a very different character in different neighbourhoods. Spadina Avenue runs south ...

. Much of its work focuses on

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, and research designed to shape

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. The hospital was originally founded in 1966 as the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, after Charles Kirk Clarke, a pioneer in mental health in Canada. In 1998, it merged with several other Ontario institutions to form the

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH, pronounced , french: Centre de toxicomanie et de santé mentale) is a psychiatric teaching hospital located in Toronto and ten community locations throughout the province of Ontario, Canada. It re ...

(CAMH), and the facility is now called the CAMH College Street site. CAMH's College Street and Spadina Avenue location is the only 24-hour emergency psychiatric care facility in Ontario.

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* {{authority control Hospitals in Toronto Psychiatric hospitals in Ontario Hospitals established in 1966 1966 establishments in Ontario