Annual Reports

Our annual reports provide a comprehensive overview of our efforts to support mental health and well-being in Lambton Kent.

Each report encapsulates a year’s worth of dedication, challenges, and triumphs, showcasing our programs, services, and the impact we’ve made in the community. Through transparent financial reporting, we illustrate the responsible stewardship of resources entrusted to us, ensuring that every dollar contributes to our mission.

Explore our annual reports to gain a deeper understanding of CMHA Lambton Kent’s commitment to fostering a mentally healthy community.

CMHA Lambton Kent, Annual Report 2025-2026

A Message from our Board Chair and CEO: Over the past year, CMHA Lambton Kent has continued to evolve in response to the changing needs of our communities, strengthening partnerships, expanding access, and deepening our commitment to equity and person-centred care. A defining milestone has been the development of …read more.

• Client and Family Experiences
• Quality: Excellence in Action Awards
• Program Spotlight: Empowering Wellness with Accessible LAI Clinics
• Celebrating Indigenous Healing Spaces
• Engaging in our Communities: Feedback & Outreach
• Reflections: Initiatives We Launched in 2023/24
• Collaboration: HART Hub
• Appreciation: Thank you for Investing in a Mentally Healthy Community
• Financial Overview

CMHA Lambton Kent Annual Report 2025-2026 – English

CMHA Lambton Kent, Annual Report 2024-2025

A Message from our Board Chair and CEO: On behalf of CMHA Lambton Kent’s Board of Directors, we are filled with pride and gratitude for our dedicated staff, resilient clients and families, trusted partners and a supportive community of volunteers, donors, and advocates. In an ever-evolving mental health and addictions …read more.

• Client and Family Experiences
• Quality: Excellence in Action Awards
• Program Spotlight: Empowering Wellness with Accessible LAI Clinics
• Celebrating Indigenous Healing Spaces
• Engaging in our Communities: Feedback & Outreach
• Reflections: Initiatives We Launched in 2023/24
• Collaboration: HART Hub
• Appreciation: Thank you for Investing in a Mentally Healthy Community
• Financial Overview

CMHA Lambton Kent Annual Report 2024-2025 – English

CMHA Lambton Kent Rapport Annuel 2024-2025 – French

CMHA Lambton Kent, Annual Report 2023-2024

A Message from our Board Chair and CEO: As we reflect on the past year, we are reminded of the resilience and dedication that defines our organization. The year 2023 was a significant one for us, marked by several key achievements and profound challenges that tested our resolve and commitment. …read more.

• Client and Family Advisory Councils
• Quality: Excellence in Action Awards
• Thank you for Your Support
• Care in Times of Crisis (Indigenous Services Team, Critical Incident Stress Management Team, Housing Team)
• Sarnia Lambton YWHO Grand Opening Celebration
• MobileCare -Community Health Outreach-
• Lambton Mental Wellness Centre: An Investment in Peer Support
• In Our Communities, Increasing Awareness, Reducing Stigma & Advocating for More Resources
• Financial Report

CMHA Lambton Kent Annual Report 2023-2024

CMHA Lambton Kent, Annual Report 2022-2023

A Message from our Board Chair and CEO: We are pleased to present our 2022 – 2023 CMHA Lambton Kent Annual Report. Over the course of the year, we celebrated many accomplishments, continued our efforts on significant community initiatives, demonstrated our commitment to partnerships and continued to raise awareness and reduce stigma associated with mental health and addictions. …read more.

• Accreditation
• Client Story
• Community Support: Shell Sarnia Manufacturing
• Program Spotlights: Housing Team and Indigenous Services Team
• Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
• Thank you
• Financial Report

CMHA Lambton Kent Annual Report 2022-2023

CMHA Lambton Kent, Annual Report 2021-2022

A Message from our Board Chair and CEO: 2021/22 was a defining year for Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) Lambton Kent. After nearly two years of adapting and adjusting to the unique challenges brought about by the pandemic while continuing to move innovative partnerships and initiatives forward, 2021/22 was a year to consider purposeful steps forward. …read more.

• Client & Family Advisory Panel
• Program Spotlights: Client Care Assistants
• Program Spotlight: Long Acting Injection Clinic
• Staff Culture Building
• Community Support
• Client Feedback
• Financial Report

CMHA Lambton Kent Annual Report 2021-2022

CMHA Lambton Kent, Annual Report 2020-2021

A Message from our Board Chair and CEO: Much like the rest of the world, 2020/21 was a year that provided Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) Lambton Kent with both obstacles and opportunities the likes of which we had not experienced previously. To say that we are extremely proud of the way in which our teams have responded to these challenges would be an understatement. Board members, staff, volunteers, partners and supporters have proven themselves to be our greatest strength during these difficult times. We are humbled and grateful. …read more.

• Safe, Uninterrupted, Quality Care
• Leadership, Partnership and Collaboration
• Supporting Community During the Pandemic
• Community Support
• What Our Clients Say
• Financial Report

CMHA Lambton Kent, Annual Report 2020-2021

CMHA Lambton Kent, Annual Report 2019-2020

A Message from our Board Chair and CEO: At CMHA Lambton Kent, it was a year of significant achievements, new partnerships, important milestones and continued growth in the number of clients served. As the fiscal year ended, we experienced the unprecedented onset of the COVID-19 global pandemic. Consequently, we delayed the annual general meeting and annual report for the first time in our history, (or its predecessor branches, CMHA Lambton County and Chatham-Kent). …read more.

• Embracing Lived Experiences: Client and Family Centred Care, Speaker’s Bureau, Lindsay’s Story
• Excellence: Case Management, and Housing
• Innovation: Mental Health Shared Services Team, and Mental Health and Engagement Response Team
• ACCESS Open Minds: Chatham-Kent and Sarnia Lambton
• Employer of Choice
• Thank you
• Financial Report

CMHA Lambton Kent, Annual Report 2019-2020

CMHA Lambton Kent, Annual Report 2018-2019

A Message from our Board Chair and CEO: This past year was a monumental year for the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) as we celebrated our hundredth anniversary. Founded in 1918 by Dr. Clarence Hinks and Clifford Beers with the mission to improve the care and treatment of people with mental illness and to improve the mental health of all, the CMHA has been at the vanguard of mental health for one hundred years. How far we have come, from our founder’s vision to Canada’s largest mental health charity with divisions and branches from coast to coast to coast. …read more.

• Advanced Access Appointments
• Family Connections
• Indigenous Services
• Accreditation
• Strategic Plan
• Ride Don’t Hide
• Client and Family Advisory Panel
• Financial Report

CMHA Lambton Kent, Annual Report 2018-2019

CMHA Lambton Kent, Annual Report 2017-2018

A Message from our Board Chair and CEO: 2018 marks the 100th anniversary of the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA). For 100 years in communities from coast to coast to coast, CMHA has been working to achieve our vision of mentally healthy people in a healthy society. Over the last 60 years, CMHA Lambton Kent has helped improve the lives of people with mental illness and to build the mental health of all our residents. This past year, CMHA Lambton Kent continued to excel and demonstrate leadership in the transformation of mental health care services. You will see throughout the body of this report that we have made great strides in achieving our strategic directives. …read more.

• Long Acting Injections
• ACCESS Open Minds
• Housing Program Expansion
• Indigenous Support Services
• Mental Health Promotion and Education
• Easier Access for Outpatient Services
• Ride Don’t Hide
• E-QIP: Client and Family Advisory Council
• Financial Report

CMHA Lambton Kent Annual Report 2017-2018 – English

CMHA Lambton Kent Rapport Annuel 2017-2018 – French

CMHA Lambton Kent, Annual Report 2016-2017

A Message from our Board Chair and CEO: In May of 2017, we at CMHA Lambton Kent, along with our CMHA family from coast to coast, recognized our 66th annual Mental Health Week. Each year mental health week continues to grow, and this year we were joined by an unprecedented number of supporters, people from all walks of life, who value the importance of mental health. Even Prime Minster Justin Trudeau joined us to add his support saying, “Let us use our voices this week to help change the way society views mental health issues and those living with them. Now is the time to GET LOUD for mental health.” …read more.

• Integrating Mental Health and Primary Care
• Rapid Assessment, Intervention and Treatment (RAIT) Program
• Update on Public Education and Suicide Prevention
• Bluewater Health Pay for Results
• First Nations Engagement
• Wellness
• Mental Health Champion Award
• ACCESS Open Minds
• Housing First Project in Partnership with Chatham-Kent Housing Services
• Thank you to 2016 Ride Don’t Hide Event Sponsors
• Financial Report

CMHA Lambton Kent Annual Report 2016-2017 – English

CMHA Lambton Kent Rapport Annuel 2016-2017 – French