While Senator and Chair of the Senate Social Affairs Committee from 1999 to 2006, Honourable Michael Kirby remembers the day the members of his committee decided to shine the light on Mental Health.

Did you know? The philanthropy of our employees is essential to the Douglas’ mission. Your gifts represent one third of all individual donations raised by the Foundation. As Douglas employees, you are part of the Douglas Family. Your

Minister Christine St-Pierre unveils the Quebec Chater for a Healthy and Realistic Body Image.

Michael Kirby, Chair of the Mental Health Commission of Canada, visits the Douglas Institute.

For Ellen Corin, PhD, the past 27 years in Montreal have spanned psychology and anthropology, the West and the developing world. There is one unifying element through her career, it is that it was not her own, but other people's stories that were impo

The Douglas Greenhouse: 25 years of horticultural therapy

Last spring, Mike Santoro gave a conference at the Douglas as part of the activities of Social Work Week organized by Joan Simand, MSW, Professional Chief of Social Services, and her team. Social work aims to restore or improve social functioning of i

Individual placement and support (IPS) to find employment: Relevance of this model for Quebec.

Imagine if:  A patient’s file indicates that he has been receiving treatment and a team is handling his follow-up care – fourteen months after he died. You see patients’ names on a waiting list when, in fact, they a

Forensic mental health researcher Anne Crocker, PhD, is tackling some of today's most challenging mental health policy questions.