Social Service & Welfare Organizations in Douglasdale/Douglas Glen, Calgary, AB
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110 Quarry Park Blvd, Calgary, T2C 4P5
(403) 250-7090
The MS Society of Canada has a membership of 28, 000. It is the only national voluntary organization in Canada that supports both MS research and services for people with MS and their families. The MS Society is governed by a National Board of Directors comprised of 27 volunteer members who are elected annually. The seven regional divisions and nearly 120 chapters are also governed by elected volunteer boards of directors. Some 1, 500 volunteers serve on MS Society national, division and chapter boards and committees. An estimated 13, 500 women and men are volunteers for service programs, fund raising events, public awareness campaigns and social action activities. The head office of the MS Society is located in Toronto, Ontario. Division offices are located in Dartmouth, Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Regina, Edmonton, and Vancouver. 
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110 Quarry Park Blvd SE #320, SOUTHWOOD, Calgary, T2C 3G3
(403) 255-5808
The goal of the Mental Health Commission of Canada is to help bring into being an integrated mental health system that places people living with mental illness at its centre. To this end, the Commission encourages cooperation and collaboration among governments, mental health service providers, employers, the scientific and research communities, as well as Canadians living with mental illness, their families and caregivers. The organization of publicly funded mental health services and supports to the general population is the responsibility of each provincial and territorial government, not of the Commission. The proposal to create the Mental Health Commission of Canada was first made by the Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology in November 2005. Almost two years earlier, in February, 2003, the Committee, under the leadership of Senator Michael Kirby, had undertaken the first-ever national study of mental health, mental illness and addiction. During the final phase of its study, the Committee held more than 50 meetings, comprising more than 130 hours of hearings. The Committee heard from more than 300 witnesses, whose testimony filled more than 2,000 pages. The Committee travelled to every province and territory, and supplemented its public hearings by two separate e-consultations through the committee’s website that gathered hundreds of individual stories. The Government of Canada announced funding for the Mental Health Commission of Canada in its March 2007 budget, and indicated that the mandate and structure of the Commission would be closely based on the proposal contained in the Senate Committee report. The creation of the Commission was also endorsed by all provincial and territorial governments (with the exception of Québec) at a meeting of Ministers of Health in October 2005, and all these governments have since confirmed their support for the Commission.