Loss of Culturally Specific Care
Toronto Western Hospital's Asian-focused outpatient psychiatry program, Asian Initiative Mental Health (AIM), has been dismantled under the rationale of "integration."
AIM, one of the few hospital-based services in Canada explicitly built to meet the linguistic, cultural, and psychosocial needs of Asian communities, is now gone.
- AIM stood out as one of the very few hospital-based health programs in Canada created specifically to serve a distinct cultural community, the Asian community.
- CAMH's AMANI program, which supports Black youth, is another example of a culturally specific care program.
When culturally specific care is allowed to vanish under another name, we all lose a piece of the commons we rely on.
Author's summary: Culturally specific care programs are being dismantled.
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