Clubhouse Principles

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• All services must:

  • Inspire growth and hope,

  • Recognize and respect people with mental illness as citizens with a wide range of capacities and talents, and

  • Always move forward in partnership with members as the expert in their own recovery journey.

• All services use recovery based principles.

• The clubhouse will adopt the Recovery Centred Clinical System as model for support.

• Services will result in real and positive change in people’s lives at their own pace.

• All services will have the goal of community integration, obtained by using mainstream community services and building natural supports.

• Services will be

  • Age specific as needed.

  • Culturally sensitive,

  • Include families and/or supports, and

  • Are reflective of the range of recovery.

• Services will be supportive of people’s health and happiness.