Surrey Place Centre (Ont.)

• Surrey Place Centre

• Surrey Place

• Toronto Mental Retardation Centre

• Mental Retardation Clinic

The facility that would eventually be known as Surrey Place Centre was established in 1962 by the University of Toronto's Psychology Department. It was planned as a community clinic that treated developmental disabilities in adults and children. When establlished, the clinic was known as the Mental Retardation Clinic and located on the University of Toronto Campus.

In 1966, the administration and operation of the clinic was transferred to the Ministry of Health and renamed the Mental Retardation Centre. It was relocated from the Univeristy of Toronto campus to the site of the former Toronto Psychiatric Hopital on 2 Surrey Street in Toronto.

Surrey Place changed its name in 1973-74 to Surrey Place Centre with no significant changes in adminsitration or function.

The passing of the 1974 Developmental Services Act introduced a greater emphasis on community care rather than institutional treatment. With this, responsibility for developmental services was transferred from the Ministry of Health to the Ministry of Community and Social Services, initially under the Mental Retardation Services Division, later the Developmental Services Branch. Surrey Place was one of several facilities included in this transfer.

In the fall of 1987, Surrey Place Centre was privatized and became an out-patient facility. It is still in operation.

Surrey Place Centre was a facility in Toronto that assessed, housed and treated developmentally disabled individuals. It housed a small number of residents (approximately 5-30) but mainly provided out-patient services.

The Centre's mandate was to provide a comprehenisve approach to treatment combining nursing, psychiatry, social work, psychology and other disciplines. Over the years, new disciplines and treatments were added including occupational therapy, audiology, speech pathology, behaviour analysis and genetics.

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RAD: Rules for Archival Description, 2nd edn (2008)

2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM

Surrey Place Centre bestie (June 2007), Ministry of Health Annual Reports. Ministry of community and Social Services Annual reports: Developmental Services Functional Analysis (1998).

Archivist(s):
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