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www.insideHALTON.com | OAKVILLE BEAVER | Thursday, October 3, 2013 | 8 STRIDE helps those with mental illness get up and running continued from p.7 Halton's population grows, the demand for services is "bound to increase," Cox said. "There are a lot of people with mental illness in Halton. We're dealing with a mentally-ill population that has an 85 per cent unemployment rate, which is the highest, by far, of any disabled group," he noted. "People with physical disabilities have a much higher success rate in nding employment than our group." To promote Mental Illness Awareness Week (Oct. 6-12), Boston Pizza Dorval, 270 North Service Rd. W., will donate 10 per cent of its dining room food sales from Oct. 7-10, 4-8 p.m., to STRIDE. An autographed Toronto Raptors basketball will be up for grabs in a silent auction. Funds raised will be used to build a café at STRIDE's Wyecroft Road Oakville location, which will be operated by workers in the employment connections program. The STRIDE manager explained that people with mental health challenges have a hard time nding work because stigma still exists. People who are recovering "don't need to be treated differently than anybody else because they're not different than anybody else," he said. "Hopefully, the stigma will disappear over time, but I think it's a lot less than it used to be. One of the best things the Province has done was closing all those psychiatric hospitals and letting people live in the community to be treated like anybody else." The long-term goal for STRIDE is to establish additional social enterprises in the community to help people nd jobs that pay minimum wage or higher, Cox said, rather than having them work exclusively in its packaging and assembly division. "Most of the people we place in the community are for entry-level positions dealing with maintenance work, cleaning of ces, retail administration and restaurant work," he said. 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