Steve
Lurie Résumé
| Steve Lurie is currently the
Executive Director of the Canadian Mental Health Association
Toronto Branch, a post he has held since 1979. Steve has
written and lectured extensively on mental health policy
issues. He was a principal author of the Graham Report,
Building Community Support for People, and conducted
the 1992 snapshot of community mental health programs
for the Ontario Ministry of Health and the Minimum Data
Set Pilot Project (1998), |
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which established a common data set for the reporting of
client characteristics and outcomes in community and hospital
based mental health services. He served as guest editor of
the Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health special issue,
Innovation in Community Mental Health: International Perspectives.
In 2005 he provided technical assistance to the Senate Committee
Report, Out of the Shadows At Last: Transforming Mental
Health and Addiction Services in Canada.
In August 2007 he was appointed to chair the Service Systems
Advisory Committee for the newly established Mental Health
Commission of Canada.
Steve has been a Board member and Vice President of the Ontario
Federation of Community Mental Health and Addiction Programs
and represented community health employers on the Board of
the Health Sector Training and Adjustment Program, where he
served as Treasurer.
He has served as a trustee on the Board of the Centre for
Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and has served on a number
of the Centre’s corporate committees including Finance,
Quality Assurance, and Property and has chaired Community
Relations and Ethics.
Since 1998, Steve has chaired the Toronto Mental Health and
Justice Coordinating Committee, which addresses service coordination
issues concerning mental health and the criminal justice system
and was recently appointed co-chair of the Central LHIN Mental
Health and Addictions Network.
He has a Masters in Management (MM) from the McGill McConnell
Voluntary Sector Leadership program (2002) and has a BA (1971)
and MSW (1973) from the University of Toronto Faculty of Social
Work where he is now an adjunct professor. Steve is also an
avid skier, musician and fan of Chaos Theory.
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