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CMHA History
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...