Mental Health Commission of Canada

Mental Health Commission of Canada: The Aspiring Workforce report, commissioned by the Mental Health Commission of Canada , delves into the challenges facing those Canadians, targeting all levels of government, businesses, policy-makers and the not-for-profit sector in addition to the attitudes of Canadians themselves towards those who suffer from mental illness, according to The Star. This report represents hope, it really does, for many people who are voiceless, Patrick Dion, vice-chairman of the commission, said in an interview. Its astonishing that 90 per cent of the mentally ill are unemployed. Our lives are a three-legged stool a home, a job and a friend and so if that job leg isnt there, the journey to recovery is made that much more difficult and OTTAWA Ninety per cent of Canadians with serious mental illnesses are unemployed due largely to prejudice about their conditions a startling state of affairs that costs the Canadian economy an estimated $50 billion a year, according to a sweeping new report. Obtained by The Canadian Press, the report conducted by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, the University of Toronto and Queens University recommends collaboration between all sectors to find work for mentally ill Canadians, many of whom have training and skills. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.