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Your Support Makes Progress Possible

Donations to Waypoint don’t just support mental health care in general. They help make new programs possible, bring better tools and technology into care, support research and create opportunities for people receiving care.

Here are some of the ways our community has made a difference.

Impact 2025–26

From new approaches to care and research to practical supports for patients, families and communities, generosity helped make meaningful things possible this year. These numbers tell just part of the story.

$2.9M in research funding

Supporting new ideas, clinical trials and research that can improve care.

20 new acute mental health beds

Including the region’s first Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit beds, made possible in part through community support.

1,270 youth supported

Children and youth supported through Waypoint outpatient services in 2025–26.

3,546 older adults supported

People aged 65+ supported through Waypoint inpatient and outpatient services in 2025–26.

~150 people served through Connected Families

Bell Let’s Talk funding helped bring practical and mental health supports to families in Parry Sound.

More support for caregivers

Community fundraising, LEAF and Rexall grants helped expand caregiver respite, giving care partners more opportunities to rest, connect and recharge.

A new way to spot risk earlier

TD Ready Commitment funding helped advance PRIME, an AI-enabled early warning system now being piloted in hospital.

Meeting urgent needs

Community donors, along with Alectra, helped sustain Waypoint’s Emergency Fund, providing rapid assistance to people facing urgent financial hardship.

More than $150,000 raised over 10 years

Mental Health in Motion marked its 10-year milestone in 2025, having raised more than $150,000 to help people living with mental illness and addiction access care and treatment through Waypoint. In 2025, funds raised were directed toward Waypoint’s Community Mental Health Programs, supporting people across the region, from children and youth to adults and seniors.

Mental Health in Motion
A group of runners in a race.

$250,000 raised to support the next generation of researchers

Funds raised through An Evening to Shine the Light (2025) helped establish Waypoint’s Breakthrough Fund, with $250,000 raised to embed six graduate students and postdoctoral fellows directly into Waypoint’s clinical and research programs.

Leveraged through the Mitacs Accelerate program, this supports eight interns over three years, working on projects ranging from patient-oriented research and addiction care to AI, forensic mental health and equity-focused research.

Shine the Light Gala
Three Waypoint researchers reviewing documents.

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Waypoint's Annual Report

Annual Report
Three Waypoint researches discussing a project.

Waypoint Research Institute Report

From AI-enabled early warning systems to research shaped by people with lived experience, WRI is turning new ideas into practical approaches that can improve mental health care.

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