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- ADVOCACY
- Individual
- Self-Advocacy
- Systemic
- Systemic Advocacy Issues — 2003
- Mandatory Inquests
- Social Housing Reform Act
- Personal Needs Allowance
- Discharge Planning Report
- Inquests
- Allalouf Inquest
- Antoniazzi Inquest
- Manzano Inquest - March 2000 PDF
- Williams Inquest - May 2000 PDF
- Segarra Inquest - June 2000 PDF
- Pirrera Inquest - November 2000 PDF
- Edgar Inquest - September 2001 PDF
- Jeffrey Inquest - January 2002
- Lumgair Inquest - February 2002 PDF
- Skultety Inquest - February 2002 PDF
- Wiens Inquest - September 2004 PDF
- Magee Inquest - October 2004
- Cuddy Inquest - December 2004 PDF
- Blais Inquest - February 2005 PDF
- M.K. Inquest - February 2005 PDF
- Blentzas Inquest - March 2005 PDF
- Whisselle Inquest - September 2005 PDF
- Bolger Inquest - December 2005 PDF
- McNeil Inquest - December 2005 PDF
- Police Record Searches (Links below to PDFs)
- Police Record Searches PPAO InfoGuide
- Police Background Check IPC/O Guide
Letters, Submissions and Articles - Ontario Human Rights Code - Definition of Disability
- Letter to Chief Commisioner Keith Norton, OHRC - Oct 28, 2002
- Letter from Keith Norton - Dec 31, 2002
- Letter to Robert Runciman, Minister of Public Safety & Security - Dec 31, 2002
- Letter from Robert Runciman - Feb 24, 2003
- Letter to Chief Commissioner Barbara Hall, OHRC - Jun 14, 2006
- Deputation to Toronto Police Services Board - Jul 10, 2006
- Letter from Jacquelin Pegg, OHRC - Aug 15, 2006
- Letter from Toronto Police Services Board - Aug 25, 2006
- Letter to Ann Cavoukian, Information & Privacy Commissioner - Oct 12, 2006
- Letter to Monte Kwinter, Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services - Oct 12, 2006
- Network Magazine article on police records - Fall 2006
- CLASP Submission to Toronto Police Services Board - Apr 28, 2006
- CLASP Deputation to Toronto Police Services Board - Jul 10, 2006
- Information and Privacy Commissioner: Privacy Complaint Report - Toronto Police Services Board - Nov 2, 2006
- Letter from Monte Kwinter, Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services - Nov 14, 2006
- Letter from Toronto Police Service, Records Management Services - Nov 28, 2006
- Letter + Report from Ann Cavoukian, Information and Privacy Commissioner - Dec 6, 2006
- Letter to Ernie Parsons, Chair, Standing Committee on Social Policy - Jan 18, 2007
- Ontario Human Rights Commission Letter to Chief Terry McLaren, President, Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police - Jan 19, 2007
- OHRC Letter to Chief Terry McLaren, Peterborough-Lakefield Community Police Service - Jan 22, 2007
- Rights Advice
- All Forms and Uses
- Rights Adviser Role
- Requesting Rights Advice Visits
- Request for Rights Advice Visit (PDF)
- Request for Rights Advice Visit RE: Community Treatment Order (PDF)
- Rights Adviser Reporting Materials
- Education
- Admission: Mental Health Act
- Deemed Hearings
- Form 1: Assessment
- Informal Patients
- Involuntary Patients
- Religious And Spiritual Rights
- Restraints: Your Rights When In a Psychiatric Facility
- Rights as a Psychiatric Patient
- Searches: Person and Property
- Voluntary Patients
- Admission or Detention: Other Laws
- Admission to Long-term Care
- Disposition Orders (Criminal Code of Canada)
- Fitness to Stand Trial (Criminal Code of Canada)
- Restriction Of Liberties Hearings
- Victim Impact Statements at the ORB
- Advocacy
- Self-Advocacy
- Four Steps to Successful Self-Advocacy
- Power Of Attorney: Personal Care
- Power Of Attorney: Property
- Residential Tenancies Act
- Systemic Advocacy
- Appeals
- Amicus Curiae For ORB Appeals
- Appeal: Consent And Capacity
- Appeal: Legal Aid Ontario Decisions
- Appeal: Ontario Review Board
- Driving License Suspension
- Complaints
- Complaints about Health Care Practitioners
- Complaints about Lawyers
- Coroners' Inquests
- Human Rights Complaints
- Mental Health Act Violations Section 80
- Police Complaints
- Records
- Accessing Personal Health Records
- Disclosing Personal Health Information
- Personal Health Information
- Police Record Searches
- Treatment
- Community Treatment Orders
- CTO Deemed Hearings
- Covert Medication
- Substitute Decision Makers
- Treatment Incapable In The Community
- List of all Infoguides A-Z
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This section has been phased out. See InfoGuides (above) instead.
- Review: Operation of Agencies, Boards & Commissions
- Bill 103: Independent Police Review Act
- 2007 Budget: The Road to Recovery
- Bill 28: Mandatory Blood Testing Act
- Bill 140: Long-term Care Rights Protection
- Human Rights Code Amendment Act, 2006 > Submission
- Human Rights Code Amendment Act, 2006 > Presentation
- Toronto Police Reference Check Program
- Transparent Drug System for Patients Act, 2006
- Residential Tenancies Act, 2006
- Personal Health Information Protection Act amendments
- 2006 Budget Consultations: Investing in People and Programs
- Local Health System Integration Act, > Submission
- Local Health System Integration Act, > Presentation
- Regulated Health Professions Act
- Smoke-Free Ontario Act - Bill 164
- Regulation of Psychotherapy and/or Psychotherapists
- Private Investigators and Security Guards Act
- Independent Advocacy and Rights Advice: Submission to World Health Organization
- Independent Advocacy and Rights Advice: Senate Submission
- Smoke Free Ontario Act - Patient Impact
- Future Directions for Legislation: Long-Term Care Homes
- Review of Mental Disorders Provisions of the Criminal Code > House of Commons Submission
- Review of Mental Disorders Provisions of the Criminal Code > Senate Submission
- Review of Police Complaints System
- Ontarians With Disabilities Act
- Personal Health Information Protection Act
- Advocacy Guidelines For Smoking Policies
- Consent And Capacity Board: Draft Rules Of Practice Submission
- Personal Needs Allowance
- Mental Disorders And The Criminal Code
- Consumer-Survivor Participation
- Seclusion And Restraint
- Archive
- Mandatory Drug Testing
- Health Professions Self-regulation
- Homes for Persons with Special Needs
- Health Sector and Privacy
- Oct 2000 Submission to Minister
- 2003 Submission to Standing Committee
- Forced Treatment
- April 13, 2000 - Press Release
- April 13, 2000 - Letter to Honourable Brad Clark
- April 13, 2000 - Submission regarding "The Next Steps"
- April 13, 2000 - Submission regarding Advocacy and Rights Advice Delivery
- May 15, 2000 - Submission to the Standing Committee on General Government
- Ontarians with Disabilities Act
Dec 2001 Submission to Minister
- Annual Reports
- 2005 - Annual Report
PDF. (1MB) - 2004 - Annual Report PDF
- 2003 - Annual Report PDF
- 2003 - 20th Anniversary Special Report: PDF
- 2002 - Community-based Rights Advice Services Annual Report PDF
- 1999 - Annual Report PDF
- Other Publications
- Press Releases
- September 15, 2006 - 20th Anniversary of Rights Advice Celebrated
- October 29, 2004 - Medical Services Available to Psychiatric Inpatients Questioned
- October 23, 2003 - PPAO urges Liberal government to make mental health a priority
- October 21, 2003 - PPAO celebrates 20 years of promoting patients' rights in Ontario
- May 7, 2003 - Psychiatric Patient Advocate Office Celebrates 20th Anniversary
- February 10, 2003 - Empowerment Centre - a positive step forward
- July 24, 2002 - Psychiatrist Charged
- June 13, 2002 - Advocates Call for Immediate Action
- April 10, 2002 - OPSEU Labour Dispute Affecting Patient Care
- June 14, 2001 - Personal Needs Allowance: Advocating for increase
- Letters to Editors
- March 20, 2007 - The Toronto Star: Ontario must help most vulnerable
- March 19, 2007 - The Thunder Bay Chronical Journal: Reducing Poverty Supports Recovery
- March 15, 2007 - The Toronto Star: Disclosure harms the mentally ill
- March 14, 2007 - The Globe and Mail: The Wrong Plan
- March 10, 2007 - The National Post: CTOs are not the best solution
- November 28 , 2006 - St. Thomas Times Journal: Psychiatric Rights
- November 28 , 2006 - Kingston Whig Standard: Prisons need psychiatric services
- November 21, 2006 - Brockville Recorder and Times: More must be done to help inmates with mental illness
- November 20, 2006 - Port Hope Evening Guide: Greatest barrier to inclusion for many disabled persons is poverty
- November 20, 2006 - Cobourg Daily Star: Greatest barrier to inclusion for many disabled persons is poverty
- October 6 , 2006 - Midland Free Press: Support those affected by mental illness
- October 2, 2006 - North Bay Nugget: Take time to understand mental illness in society
- October 4, 2006 - Stratford Beacon-Herald: Those with mental illness deserve better
- October 2, 2006 - The Chronicle-Journal, Thunder Bay: "Face Mental Illness"
- October 2 , 2006 - St. Thomas Times Journal: Mental Illness Awareness
- October 2 , 2006 - Kingston This Week: We must improve our understanding of mental illness, advocates write
- September 29, 2006 - Brockville Recorder and Times: We all have a role in supporting recovery of those with mental illness
- August 12, 2006 - The Toronto Star: Educate society on mental illness
- July 19, 2006 - London Free Press: Psychiatric Advocacy Office Helps Protect Patients' Rights
- May 29, 2006 - The Windsor Star: More Community Services Needed for Mental Illness
- May 29, 2006 - The Peterborough Examiner: Mental Health Aid
- May 10, 2006 - The Midland Mirror: Mind Your Health
- May 5, 2006 - Thunder Bay's Source: Think About Mental Health
- May 4, 2006 - St. Thomas Times Journal: Taking Control
- May 1, 2006 - The Thunder Bay Chronicle-Journal: A healthy Ontario includes mental health
- March 22 , 2006 - Kingston Whig Standard: Poor need more help than they're getting
- March 22 , 2006 - St. Thomas Times Journal: Time for province to restore funding
- March 14 , 2006 - The Toronto Star: Increase social assistance rates
- January 21, 2006 - The National Post: Mental illness clients and their right to vote
- January 20, 2006 - St. Thomas Times Journal: Psychiatric patients have right to participate in election
- November 29, 2005 - The Kingston Whig Standard: "Stop mistreating mentally ill inmates"
- November 8, 2005 - The Toronto Star: Service shortfalls in mental health
- October 6, 2005 - Brockville Recorder and Times: Face Mental Illness as an Inclusive and Understanding Community
- October 6, 2005 - The West Nipissing Tribune: The Human Face of Mental Illness
- October 6, 2005 - The North Bay Nugget: It's time to deal with stigma of mental illness
- October 4, 2005 - The Thunder Bay Chronicle-Journal: Face Mental Illness with Understanding
- October 4, 2005 - The London Free Press: Stigma Thwarts Treatment of Mental Illness
- October 3, 2005 - St. Thomas Times Journal: Mental Illness Awareness Week
- September 11, 2005 - The Ottawa Citizen: We need a public strategy to help the mentally ill
- July 23, 2005 - The Sudbury Star: Mentally ill need more than money
- July 22, 2005 - The Peterborough Examiner: Psych patients' rights
- July 22, 2005 - St. Thomas Times Journal: Patient Advocate Office Applauds Decision
- July 8, 2005 - The Ottawa Citizen: Treatment refusal is a right
- July 6, 2005 - The National Post: Protecting the Right to Refuse Treatment
- June 13, 2005 - The Ottawa Citizen: The mentally ill must retain their rights
- May 6, 2005 - Chronicle-Journal Thunder Bay: Fitness involves mind as well as body
- May 5, 2005 - St. Thomas Times Journal: A healthy mind important part of overall fitness program
- May 3, 2005 - The London Free Press: Add mental health to fitness program
- April 18, 2005 - The Standard - St Catharines: Don't stigmatize mental illness
- October 2, 2004 - Brockville Recorder and Times: People with mental illness still face formidable barriers
- October 10, 2003 - Windsor Star: Mental Illness Awareness Week - A Time for Reflection
- October 10, 2003 - Whitby This Week: Mental Illness in focus this week
- October 10, 2003 - Thunder Bay Post: Mental Health Week a time for reflection
- October 10, 2003 - Midland Free Press: Something to think about
- August 26, 2003 - Windsor Star: Jail no place for the ill: Binge eater didn't receive treatment he badly needs
- July 25, 2003 - National Post: Soul Searching in Victoria
- July 18, 2003 - Hamilton Spectator: Mental Illness: We must end the stereotypes
- Feb. 21, 2003 - Kingston Whig-Standard: New Providence centre step forward in mental health
- Dec. 13, 2002 - The London Free Press: Patient advocate calls for inquest
- Oct. 28, 2002 - The Windsor Star: Schizophrenic a label that demeans patients
- Oct. 8, 2002 - St. Thomas Times: Journal Urges effort to prevent suicide
- Oct. 8, 2002 - Thunder Bay Chronicle Journal: We must overcome stigma about suicide
- July 27, 2002 - Thunder Bay Chronicle Journal: Attitudes changing about mental health
- July 23, 2002 - The Hamilton Spectator: Patient death in ER
- May 7, 2002 - St. Thomas Times: Journal Marking Mental Health Week
- May 6, 2002 - The London Free Press: Mental Health Week a chance for change
- May 6, 2002 - Thunder Bay Chronicle Journal: Mental Health Week - a message of hope
- April 11, 2002 - The Windsor Star: Solution is access to mental health care
- PPAO in the Media
- 21 October 2006 The Kitchener Record: A kinder court
- 12 October 2006 The Toronto Star: Mental health law too convoluted
- 7 July 2005 Edmonton Journal: Smokes ban violates psychiatric patients' rights: Advocate backs exemption for mentally ill
- 19 October 2004 London Free Press: Inquest gets off to rocky start: Lawyers get into a verbal clash over the psychiatric hospital death
- 19 October 2004 St. Thomas Times Journal: Probe into psych choking death
- October 4, 2004 The Welland Tribune: We all have a role to play
- October 2004 Hospital News: PPAO — An advocacy and rights protection program for individuals with mental illness
- April 2004 Hospital News: Rights Advice Services in Ontario
- March 2004 Toronto Star: Hospital searches patients' computers
- Fall 2003 Inside Health - MOHLTC: PPAO celebrates 20 years of protecting rights
- Autumn, 2003 The Journal - CAMH: PPAO celebrates two decades of advice and advocacy
- 9 October, 2003 Chronicle-Journal: Family focus of Mental Illness Week
- September 2003 Hospital News: Psychiatric Patient Advocate Office celebrates 20 years of promoting patients' rights in Ontario
- 14 August 2003 Midland Mirror: Some pay up to $5 for a banned cigarette at Oak Ridge
- 14 August 2003 Midland Mirror: Patients lodge complaints about PMHC searches
- February 2001 Hospital News
- August 1999 Community Action: PPAO calls for psychiatric patient Bill of Rights
- Journal Articles
- July 2006 - Dialogue: Letter to the Editor RE: Consent to Medical Treatment Policy
- Winter 2005 - Visions Journal: The Criminalization of Individuals with Mental Illness
- Autumn 2005 - CrossCurrents: Ontario doesn't need a treatment advocate - we already have them
- Vol. 7 No. 3 2004 - Healthcare Quarterly: Quarterly Letters: RE: Response - Going 100% Smoke-Free in a Secure Setting: One Hospital's Success Story
- Archive
- December 28, 2001: 'Mental Patients' called archaic term
- November 4, 2001: McRae's World: Dear Mentally Ill
- October 12, 2001: Still a sigma to mental illness
- August 25, 2001: We're locking up the ill
- July 25, 2001: Cartoon depiction is not funny
- June 23, 2001: Psychiatric Patient Advocate Office pushes for overdue increase in the Personal Needs Allowance
- June 14, 2001: Personal Needs Allowance: Advocating for increase
- April 7, 2001: Dare to care about this
- April 7, 2001: Reform means participation
- Oct 06, 2000: Unmasking Mental Illness
- May 26, 2000: Letter to the Editor: New Law to Force Treatment Not Needed
- 10 April, 2000: Letter to the Editor: Act should be all-inclusive
- 25 November, 1999 Letter to the Editor: RE: The Life of Annie
- 21 September, 1999: Agency Opposes Government Plan to Force Psychiatric Care
- 11 August, 1999: Action Needed, not a tour
- 31 July, 1999: Concerns About Advocate Office: Lobbying in hopes of preventing office falling under new body
Legal Resources:
- Advocacy Centre for the Elderly
- ARCH -Advocacy Resource Centre for the Handicapped
- CLEONet - online clearinghouse for community legal education in Ontario
- Law Society of Upper Canada
- Legal Aid Ontario
- Legal Line
- Legal Search Engine
- Mental Health Forms on Line
- Consent and Capacity Board Forms
- Ontario Legislation
- Pardons Canada
- Power of Attorney Kit
- Privacy Toolkit - Community Mental Health and Addictions
Government Resources:
- Accessibilities Ontario
- Community Care Access Centres
- Consent and Capacity Board
- Criminal Injuries Compensation Board
- Hansard - Debates of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario
- Health Records - Sample 'Consent to Disclosure' Form
- Legislative Assembly of Ontario
- Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care - Ontario
- Ombudsman Ontario
- Ontario Civilian Commission on Police Services
- Ontario Disability Support Plan and Ontario Works
- Ontario Human Rights Commission
- Ontario Rental Housing Tribunal
- Ontario Review Board
- Ontario Small Claims Court
- Public Guardian and Trustee
Childrens' Resources:
- Children's Info - an Ontario government portal
- Children's Mental Health Ontario - an association of service providers
- Courtprep.ca - a site for youth preparing for court
- mindyourmind.ca
- Parents for Children's Mental Health
- The Real Deal
Other Helpful Resources:
- Canadian Alliance on Mental Illness and Mental Health
- Canadian Mental Health Association
- Canadian Mental Health Association - Ontario Division
- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
- College of Nurses of Ontario
- College of Physicians and Surgeons
- Community Living Ontario
- Community Resource Connections of Toronto
- Drug and Alcohol Registry of Treatment (DART)
- Health Canada
- Housing Guide - Toronto
- Mental Health Service Information Ontario
- Mental Health Support Network
- Mental Health Works
- Mood Disorders Association of Ontario
- Ontario Federation of Community Mental Health and Addictions Programs
- Ontario Multifaith Council on Spiritual and Religious Care
- Ontario Peer Development Initiative: Supporting Consumer-Survivor Initiatives Throughout Ontario -
- Ontario Problem Gambling Helpline
American Resources:
- Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations (JCAHO)
- NAMI - National Alliance for the Mentally Ill
- NARPA - National Association for Rights Protection and Advocacy
- National Empowerment Centre
- World Health Organization - Mental Health Resources