Casey House Toronto

Casey House Toronto A specialty hospital in Toronto providing groundbreaking care for people living with & at-risk of HIV
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Casey House transforms lives through compassion and social justice. Together with our clients, staff, peers and volunteers, we strive to create an inclusive environment where everyone feels safe. We offer a growing mix of inpatient, outpatient and community-based services that meet clients where they are in their individual journeys of health and wellness. Building on a legacy of advocacy and social justice, we actively dismantle barriers to care and safe living. We provide a community and sense of belonging that connects people to care. The humanity of each client is at the heart of everything we do.

Best wishes to our friends at Alberta Theatre Projects as they premiere their production of Casey & Diana tomorrow. We e...
02/23/2026

Best wishes to our friends at Alberta Theatre Projects as they premiere their production of Casey & Diana tomorrow. We extend our gratitude to the entire cast and crew for sharing a piece of Casey House all the way over to Calgary, Alberta. Break a leg! šŸŽ‰šŸ’

02/20/2026

Thank you all for making our latest Smash Stigma campaign premiere a Big F*cking Deal. In this short film, we hope to give a glimpse of how social inequities have a cascading effect on people living with HIV despite medical breakthroughs for the virus. The main character is fictional, but stories like Jordanā€™s exist all around us. We invite you all to watch ā€œBig F*cking Dealā€, available online at SmashStigma.ca to join in our mission to stop HIV-stigma.

Of course, this tremendous project would not be made possible without the help of Bensimon Byrne, filmmaker Hubert Davis, and the entire creative team and production behind Big F*cking Deal. Thank you.

Today, February 17, is Lunar New Year. šŸŒ•šŸ® Lunar New Year, also known as Chinese New Year or Spring Festival in China, Tįŗæ...
02/17/2026

Today, February 17, is Lunar New Year. šŸŒ•šŸ® Lunar New Year, also known as Chinese New Year or Spring Festival in China, Tįŗæt in Vietnam, Seollal in Korea, and Losar in Tibet, marks the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar and is considered one of the most important and widely celebrated holidays across east Asia. To those who celebrate, we wish you good fortune in the year ahead, and a prosperous Year of the Horse! šŸŽ

02/17/2026

Our new short film, "Big F*cking Deal,ā€ directed by Academy Awardā€“nominated filmmaker Hubert Davis, is now available to watch everywhere.

ā€œBig F*cking Dealā€ explores why people still face challenges and can even die from HIV. Even though HIV can now be managed with a single daily pill, stigma and inequality continue to decide who gets consistent, safe care. When living with HIV also means facing mental health challenges, addiction, unstable housing, or discrimination, treatment can quickly become impossible to maintain. This is a deeply meaningful film for us. It brings those lived realities to the surface, showing how a treatable condition can become a life-shaping crisis. Not because someone has failed, but because the world around them has.

Tap the link in our bio to watch the full film

Show your love to someone living with HIV! ā¤ Whether itā€™s friendship, dating, or finding community, people living with H...
02/14/2026

Show your love to someone living with HIV! ā¤

Whether itā€™s friendship, dating, or finding community, people living with HIV are worthy of love and respect. Spaces for socializing and dating (especially digital platforms) can be rife with discriminatory language and abusive behaviours against people living with HIV. Help reduce the stigma by showing your commitment to creating positive and respectful spaces for poz people.

Today, we celebrate love and joy for everyone, and especially for people living with HIV! This includes the grassroots movement of , an international day that commemorates women with HIV. To our community and beyond, happy Valentineā€™s Day! šŸ’Ÿ

Our new short film, ā€œBig F*cking Deal,ā€ directed by Academy Awardā€“nominated filmmaker Hubert Davis, premieres tonight at...
02/12/2026

Our new short film, ā€œBig F*cking Deal,ā€ directed by Academy Awardā€“nominated filmmaker Hubert Davis, premieres tonight at Hot Docs Cinema.

Film available everywhere on February 17th.

Finally, we honour David Shannon with a 2025 Casey Award posthumously for his leadership in social justice to the HIV/AI...
02/12/2026

Finally, we honour David Shannon with a 2025 Casey Award posthumously for his leadership in social justice to the HIV/AIDS community. šŸ†šŸ’œ

David was an activist and journalist based in Montreal and later Toronto. He was active during the 1980s AIDS epidemic: sharing the experience of gay life through newspapers and radio, advocating against police hostility, caring for members of the community, and cofounding AIDS Community Care Montreal. After he passed away in 2018, his family learned that he had cared for over 50 people with AIDS during end-of-life, at a time before there were any treatments for HIV. Today, Davidā€™s legacy lives on as the namesake of Casey Houseā€™s fundraising event, Davidā€™s Disco, through support from his family.

You can read his full article and see the other 2025 recipients at caseyhouse.ca/the-casey-awards

Each year, the Casey Awards celebrate individuals, organizations, and corporate groups who have made a difference for the HIV/AIDS community. Nominations are submitted through an open community call, and recipients are decided by the Casey Awards committee.

Continuing in our Black History Month engagements, we canā€™t forget to mention the food! Today, staff were treated to a C...
02/11/2026

Continuing in our Black History Month engagements, we canā€™t forget to mention the food! Today, staff were treated to a Caribbean feast. Clients enjoyed their own Caribbean cooking social led by one of our recreational therapists, where they made curry goat, rice and peas, and fried plantain. All throughout Black History Month, our client lunch program has featured themed meals too, like fried chicken with mac and cheese, curry chicken with buss up shut roti, and jerk wings with mango pineapple coleslaw. We love being able to gather over a shared meal to experience one aspect of a rich and diverse culture-- one spoonful at a time.

02/10/2026

02.12.26

The third recipient of a 2025 Casey Awards is Francisco IbƔƱez-Carrasco, for his decades of leadership for HIV/AIDS comm...
02/10/2026

The third recipient of a 2025 Casey Awards is Francisco IbƔƱez-Carrasco, for his decades of leadership for HIV/AIDS community šŸ†šŸ’œ

Franciscoā€™s advocacy and research for the HIV community have spanned beyond five decades and between two provinces. As a person living with HIV, he honours the value of lived experience through his work as a community researcher and assistant professor at the University of Torontoā€™s Dalla Lana School of Public Health. Subjects of his research include rehabilitation in the context of long-term HIV, how to lead community-led research, supporting peer-integrated research, HIV and cognition, impacts of HIV stigma, and more. When leading these community projects, he empowers people with lived experience, q***r youth, and emerging researchers with his mentorship.

Congratulations to Francisco! šŸŽ‰

You can read his full article and see the other 2025 recipients at caseyhouse.ca/the-casey-awards

Each year, the Casey Awards celebrate individuals, organizations, and corporate groups who have made a difference for the HIV/AIDS community. Nominations are submitted through an open community call, and recipients are decided by the Casey Awards committee.

National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NBHAAD) occurs annually on February 7. The date marks the importance of HIV preve...
02/07/2026

National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NBHAAD) occurs annually on February 7. The date marks the importance of HIV prevention, destigmatization, and advocacy for access to care for African, Caribbean, and Black (ACB) populations. ACB populations face significant barriers to health care, including institutional racism, exclusionary income factors (such as employment and housing equity), and cultural stigma related to HIV.

Consequently, ACB-Canadian populations are overrepresented in new HIV transmission rates. At Casey House, we aim to provide low-barrier, judgement-free care within the context of clients' lives, choices, communities and circumstances. This includes developing culturally supportive care created with integrated ACB feedback through our Black client advisory committee. As a hospital providing ground-breaking care that addresses the social determinants of health, we are actively working to dismantle barriers to care and safe living.

Our second recipient of a 2025 Casey Award is Courtney Milne, for her dedication to the 2SLGBTQ+ and HIV communities as ...
02/05/2026

Our second recipient of a 2025 Casey Award is Courtney Milne, for her dedication to the 2SLGBTQ+ and HIV communities as a volunteer šŸ†šŸ’œ

Courtney is currently the director of Camp Rainbow Phoenix, a free summer camp for 2SLGBTQIA+ youth ages 11-17, co-organized by Pflag Durham Region and AIDS Committee of Durham Region. The camp is run by volunteer staff, with programming that teaches teens leadership skills and builds self-resilience. Courtney climbed her way up the ranks starting as a cabin mentor. In her first year of staff leadership, she redesigned the camp curriculum to include trauma-informed inclusive education that had q***r voices in the forefront during developmentā€¦all while physically caring for two newborn twins!

Congratulations to Courtney! šŸŽ‰

You can read her full article and see the other 2025 recipients at caseyhouse.ca/the-casey-awards

Each year, the Casey Awards celebrate individuals, organizations, and corporate groups who have made a difference for the HIV/AIDS community. Nominations are submitted through an open community call, and recipients are decided by the Casey Awards committee.

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Canadaā€™s only stand-alone HIV/AIDS hospital with inpatient, outpatient and community care. Casey House is still one of the few places where people with HIV/AIDS can seek care without judgement. We are more than a place that saves lives, we are a place that speaks up, shines understanding through compassion, and empowers our clients to get better. We make our clientsā€™ humanity more visible than their disease.