The Psychiatric Patient Advocacy Office (PPAO)

The Psychiatric Patient Advocate Office (PPAO)

Website: http://www.ppao.gov.on.ca/ Main page
http://www.ppao.gov.on.ca/inf-alpha.html Info Guides A to Z

- the first and largest provincial mental health advocacy program in Canada - was established in 1983 as an arm’s length program of the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care to protect the legal and civil rights of inpatients in provincial psychiatric hospitals. We continue to provide a full range of independent advocacy and rights advice services in those facilities.

Since 2001 PPAO also provides rights advice to patients in most Ontario general hospitals with a mental health unit, and to individuals living in the community who are being considered for community treatment orders.

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LOCATIONS OF THE PPAO OFFICES:

Head Office: Psychiatric Patient Advocate Office 55 St. Clair Avenue West Suite 802, Box 28 Toronto, Ontario M4V 2Y7 Telephone: (416) 327-7000 Toll Free: 1-800-578-2343 Fax: (416) 327-7008
Field Offices: (alphabetical by city) Psychiatric Patient Advocate Office Brockville Psychiatric Hospital A Division of the Royal Ottawa Health Care Group Highway 2 Prescott 1st Floor Admin. Bldg., Rm 1322 Brockville, ON K6V 5W7 Tel: (613) 345-1461 Ext. 2530/2531 Fax: (613) 345-4352	Psychiatric Patient Advocate Office St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton Centre for Mountain Health Services P.O. Box 585 100 West 5th St., Room F136 "A" Hamilton, ON L8L 3K7 Tel: (905) 388-2454 Fax: (905) 381-5622
Psychiatric Patient Advocate Office Providence Continuing Care Centre Mental Health Services 752 King St. W., Room 1009 Kingston, ON K7L 4X3 Tel: (613) 548-5575 Fax: (613) 540-6107	Psychiatric Patient Advocate Office Regional Mental Health Care London 850 Highbury Ave., Rm B111 London, ON N6A 4H1 Tel: (519) 455-9380 Fax: (519) 679-7022
Psychiatric Patient Advocate Office North Bay Psychiatric Hospital Highway 11 North, Rm 35, Box 3010 North Bay, ON P1B 8L1 Tel: (705) 474-1377 Fax: (705)495-7889	Psychiatric Patient Advocate Office Penetanguishene Mental Health Centre 500 Church Street Penetanguishene, ON L9M 1G3 Tel: (705) 549-3663 Fax: (705) 549-3172
Psychiatric Patient Advocate Office Regional Mental Health Care St. Thomas 467 Sunset Drive St. Thomas, ON N5P 3V9 Tel: (519) 631-1427 Fax: (519) 631-8216	Psychiatric Patient Advocate Office Lakehead Psychiatric Hospital 580 North Algoma St., Rm Ba207b Thunder Bay, ON P7B 5G4 Tel: (807) 343-4309 Fax: (807) 343-4374
Psychiatric Patient Advocate Office Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Queen Street Division 1001 Queen Street W., Room 167 Toronto, ON M6J 1H4 Tel: (416) 535-8501 Ext. 3099 Fax: (416) 583-3428	Psychiatric Patient Advocate Office Whitby Mental Health Centre 700 Gordon Street, Rm 7-2035 Whitby, ON L1N 5S9 Tel: (905) 430-4047 Fax: (905) 430-4044