Summit County Clubhouse Serves Adults in Summit County
with a History of Mental Illness
Based on the Clubhouse International model, Summit County Clubhouse is a supportive, recovery-based community
for people living with mental illness that offers opportunities for friendship, employment, education
and access to other important services in a single caring and safe environment.
for people living with mental illness that offers opportunities for friendship, employment, education
and access to other important services in a single caring and safe environment.
Please take a moment to listen to Sally Jablon and Aaron Newman discuss the clubhouse on KCPW (starting at minute 26:44).
What is a Clubhouse?
More than a program or social service, a Clubhouse is above all a community of people who are working towards a common goal to get their lives back! In a non-therapeutic environment based on equality and mutual caring, members are empowered to build their skills and self-confidence by engaging in nearly every facet of Clubhouse life. The Clubhouse has a proven record in reducing hospitalizations, incarcerations and homelessness. The SCC follows the international Clubhouse Model of Psycho-Social Rehabilitation, an evidence-based and time-tested program that has developed over more than sixty-five years in 330 Clubhouses in thirty countries and thirty-six states.
Summit County Clubhouse is a place where members work alongside staff, performing tasks and learning skills to facilitate reintegration into society and the work place, allowing them to reclaim their future and improve their quality of life. It is designed to be a place where a person living with mental illness is not treated as a patient and is not defined by a disability label. In a Clubhouse, a person with mental illness is seen as a valued participant, a colleague and as someone who has something to contribute to the rest of the group. Each person is a critical part of a community engaged in important work.
More than a program or social service, a Clubhouse is above all a community of people who are working towards a common goal to get their lives back! In a non-therapeutic environment based on equality and mutual caring, members are empowered to build their skills and self-confidence by engaging in nearly every facet of Clubhouse life. The Clubhouse has a proven record in reducing hospitalizations, incarcerations and homelessness. The SCC follows the international Clubhouse Model of Psycho-Social Rehabilitation, an evidence-based and time-tested program that has developed over more than sixty-five years in 330 Clubhouses in thirty countries and thirty-six states.
Summit County Clubhouse is a place where members work alongside staff, performing tasks and learning skills to facilitate reintegration into society and the work place, allowing them to reclaim their future and improve their quality of life. It is designed to be a place where a person living with mental illness is not treated as a patient and is not defined by a disability label. In a Clubhouse, a person with mental illness is seen as a valued participant, a colleague and as someone who has something to contribute to the rest of the group. Each person is a critical part of a community engaged in important work.
Photos courtesy of the Alliance House, Salt Lake City
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What is Clubhouse International?
Clubhouse International grew out of a need to keep clubhouse connections and the clubhouse movement alive. The mission of Clubhouse International is to build and coordinate strong international networks of clubhouse programs. Clubhouses are founded on the realization that recovery from serious mental illness must involve the whole person in a vital and culturally sensitive community. A clubhouse community offers respect, hope, mutually and unlimited opportunity to access the same worlds of friendship, housing, education and employment as the rest of society.
Through over 290 local Clubhouses in 32 countries around the world, Clubhouse International offers people living with mental illness opportunities for friendship, employment, housing, education and access to medical and psychiatric services in a single caring and safe environment – this social and economic inclusion reverses the alarming trends of higher suicide, hospitalization and incarceration rates associated with mental illness.
Clubhouse International grew out of a need to keep clubhouse connections and the clubhouse movement alive. The mission of Clubhouse International is to build and coordinate strong international networks of clubhouse programs. Clubhouses are founded on the realization that recovery from serious mental illness must involve the whole person in a vital and culturally sensitive community. A clubhouse community offers respect, hope, mutually and unlimited opportunity to access the same worlds of friendship, housing, education and employment as the rest of society.
Through over 290 local Clubhouses in 32 countries around the world, Clubhouse International offers people living with mental illness opportunities for friendship, employment, housing, education and access to medical and psychiatric services in a single caring and safe environment – this social and economic inclusion reverses the alarming trends of higher suicide, hospitalization and incarceration rates associated with mental illness.