Creative Centre Society for Mental Wellness was established in 1979, in response to the deinstitutionalization of patients from Riverview Psychiatric Hospital in Coquitlam, BC. Many previous Riverview patients were left without the necessary social, recreational, or work programs to assist them with reintegrating into their community. Along with a number of other non-profit organizations throughout the region, Creative Centre Society for Mental Wellness was formed to meet these needs—supporting community access, integration, and equal opportunities.
In 1990, our society purchased Nelson Place, an 8-unit apartment building in Abbotsford and began to provide greatly needed accommodation from individuals with mental illness. In the early 1990s, the society also purchased two properties: one in Chilliwack to establish Cheamview Clubhouse and one in Abbotsford to establish Abby House clubhouse.
In 2009, the society partnered with Chilliwack Community Services to offer affordable housing to our clients in a building aptly named The Village, using modular housing from the 2010 Winter Olympics in Whistler, BC. With this new project, the society was able to add another 22 units of affordable housing for mental health clients to our portfolio.
2676 Gladys, Abbotsford, BC
Phone: 604-302-6001
Abby House provides psychosocial rehabilitation programs in areas of personal life, education, pre-employment, and leisure. These services are designed to facilitate recovery and assist individuals in participating in their community, which may include work, by helping them maximize their strengths, as well as re-establish, develop, and/or maintain their skills and abilities, personal supports, and community involvement.
8916 Mary Street, Chilliwack, BC
Phone: 604-792-5287
Cheamview Clubhouse offers psychosocial rehabilitation programs to help members succeed in their personal lives, education, pre-employment, and leisure activities. All of the services at our Chilliwack clubhouse work to help facilitate recovery and to assist individuals in participating in their community, which may include work. Our goal is to help them maximize their strengths and to re-establish, develop, and/or maintain their abilities and skills, personal support systems, and community involvement.
Our philosophy focuses on health rather than on illness by providing programs designed to assist individuals to restore and maintain their confidence and wellbeing. Our objective is to provide programs for adults recovering from mental illnesses with a focus on recovery, quality of life, and community integration.
We offer a supportive and inclusive environment that is client-centred. Our staff and members work side by side as a team to reach individual goals
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Creative Centre Society for Mental Wellness is a non-profit organization that focuses on healthy living by providing rehabilitation and recovery-based programs and services designed to support anyone living with a severe and persistent mental illness.