Translation of "Association canadienne pour les déficients mentaux " (French → English) :

Canadian Association for Community Living [ CACL | Canadian Association for the Mentally Retarded | Canadian Association for Retarded Children ]

Ottawa-Carleton Association for Persons with Developmental Disabilities [ OCAPDD | Ottawa and District Association for the Mentally Retarded ]

Canadian Association of Educators of the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing [ CAEDHH | Association of Canadian Educators of the Hearing Impaired ]

Definition: This block contains a wide variety of disorders that differ in severity and clinical form but that are all attributable to the use of one or more psychoactive substances, which may or may not have been medically prescribed. The third character of the code identifies the substance involved, and the fourth character specifies the clinical state. The codes should be used, as required, for each substance specified, but it should be noted that not all fourth character codes are applicable to all substances. Identification of the psychoactive substance should be based on as many sources of information as possible. These include sel ...[+++]f-report data, analysis of blood and other body fluids, characteristic physical and psychological symptoms, clinical signs and behaviour, and other evidence such as a drug being in the patient's possession or reports from informed third parties. Many drug users take more than one type of psychoactive substance. The main diagnosis should be classified, whenever possible, according to the substance or class of substances that has caused or contributed most to the presenting clinical syndrome. Other diagnoses should be coded when other psychoactive substances have been taken in intoxicating amounts (common fourth character .0) or to the extent of causing harm (common fourth character .1), dependence (common fourth character .2) or other disorders (common fourth character .3-.9). Only in cases in which patterns of psychoactive substance-taking are chaotic and indiscriminate, or in which the contributions of different psychoactive substances are inextricably mixed, should the diagnosis of disorders resulting from multiple drug use (F19.-) be used. | Modifiers The following fourth-character subdivisions are for use with categories F10-F19: Code Title .0 Acute intoxication A condition that follows the administration of a psychoactive substance resulting in disturbances in level of consciousness, cognition, perception, affect or behaviour, o ...

In the Community Inclusion Fund, and through CACL and People First of Canada, for which I am a past president—and I'm sorry that People First of Canada is not at the table, but I understand you have to learn; you don't know what People First of Canada is, but someday you'll learn—we talk about what the identifiers are, what makes people part of a community and what makes them not.

She brought to this chamber a wealth of experience gained in the service of community organizations such as the Canadian Cancer Society; the Heart and Stroke Foundation; the Association for the Mentally Retarded; Rapport House, a hostel for youth with drug problems; the University of Guelph; the University Women's Club; and the YW/YMCA.

Testimony and/or written submissions were provided to the Standing Committee by many interested parties including the Association of Canadian Review Board Chairs, the B.C. Forensic Psychiatric Services Commission, the Barreau du Québec, the Canadian Bar Association, the Canadian Mental Health Association, the Canadian Police Association, the Canadian Psychiatric Association, the Canadian Psychological Association, the Centre for Addiction and Mental He ...[+++]alth, the Federal/Provincial/Territorial Working Group on Mental Disorder, the Institut Philippe Pinel de Montréal, the Ministry of the Attorney General of Ontario, the Mood Disorders Society of Canada, Nova Scotia Legal Aid, the Office for Victims of Crime, the Psychiatric Patient Advocate Office, and the Schizophrenia Society of Canada (21)

Testimony and/or written submissions were provided to the Standing Committee by many interested parties including the Association of Canadian Review Board Chairs, the B.C. Forensic Psychiatric Services Commission, the Barreau du Québec, the Canadian Bar Association, the Canadian Mental Health Association, the Canadian Police Association, the Canadian Psychiatric Association, the Canadian Psychological Association, the Centre for Addiction and Mental He ...[+++]alth, the Federal/Provincial/Territorial Working Group on Mental Disorder, the Institut Philippe Pinel de Montréal, the Ministry of the Attorney General of Ontario, the Mood Disorders Society of Canada, Nova Scotia Legal Aid, the Office for Victims of Crime, the Psychiatric Patient Advocate Office, and the Schizophrenia Society of Canada (18)