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Chances are that the Canadian Mental Health Association is older
than you. One of the oldest voluntary organizations in the
country, it was founded in 1918 by Dr. C. K. Clarke and Dr. C. M.
Hincks. They recognized the need for a society or organization
whose focus was to ensure that patients discharged from mental
hospitals received adequate "after-care." Back then it had a
different name: the Canadian National Committee for Mental
Hygiene. The name was different as were the times... |
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