OUR RESILIENT CLUBHOUSE COMMUNITIES Tips & Strategies: Issue #7

Please join us for the next Webinar in our series:

How are We Doing? Clubhouses Gathering Data with our Worldwide Surveys During this Pandemic

Wednesday, May 6, 11:00 AM EDT

Click here for description of this exciting upcoming Webinar, and login instructions

Mark your calendars for our upcoming webinars!

Wednesday, May 13, 10:00 AM EDT

Beginning the Process of Reopening our Clubhouses: Hearing from Clubhouses

Wednesday, May 20, 10:00 AM EDT

OUR VALUES: What is our Clubhouse community learning about ourselves? Our Standards? Our relationships? Our flexibility? Missed our last Webinar about The Virtual Work-Ordered Day: Making it work for your Clubhouse!, presented by Genesis Club, Massachusetts, or would like to view it again? Click here for the PowerPoint presentation and click here for the recording.


REMINDER: Please Complete our ‘Clubhouse and COVID-19’ Surveys!

Together, Clubhouse International, Fountain House, and Clubhouse Europe are reaching out to Clubhouses during the COVID-19 crisis to gather information about your Clubhouse response and the experience of each of your Clubhouse members.

The Member Survey is accessible at:

https://msu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_aaeYl7XIqmaMe7r

The Director’s Survey is accessible at

https://msu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2003mDotaFloDbL

Thank you all for your participation in these historic surveys. We look forward to sharing the information to help us all move forward together.  

With gratitude from the Virtual Clubhouse research survey committee with representation from:

Club Itaca Roma
Clubhouse International
Fountain House 
Magnolia Clubhouse 
Michigan State University
Program for Clubhouse Research
Wayne State University

If you have questions about the survey, email Lee Kellogg at lkellogg@clubhouse-intl.org


Raising Your Clubhouse’s Visibility In Your Community

Clubhouses around the world are doing extraordinary work, in the midst of this difficult time, to keep their Clubhouse communities connected, safe, supported, and full of hope.

Some Clubhouses have shared these inspiring stories with their local media. This is frequently resulting in the surrounding community taking a renewed interest in the unique and deeply human work that Clubhouses do every day, which we hope will help to strengthen support for Clubhouses now – and into the future.

Click here for a newspaper article about Miracle Clubhouse, Ohio.

Click here for a newspaper article about New Journey Clubhouse, Michigan.  

Click here for an article about Progress Place, in one of Toronto’s major newspapers

FOR USA CLUBHOUSES:

Useful Information Regarding Government Benefits, Unemployment Insurance, ‘Stimulus Checks’, Etc…

Click here for a helpful resource document compiled by Independence Center, Missouri. Thank you, Independence Center!

Please join us in celebrating May is Mental Health Awareness Month & #GivingTuesdayNow – May 5

In recognition of Mental Health Awareness Month and #GivingTuesdayNow, we are excited to share Clubhouse Heroes: Stories of Gratitude. These are colleagues – Clubhouse members, staff and volunteers – who embody the Clubhouse spirit of community, generosity, creativity, productivity and caring. We are always grateful for the efforts of the entire Clubhouse community, but we are especially grateful for the strength and resilience we have seen during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Have you been inspired by a Clubhouse hero? Send us a brief profile about someone in the Clubhouse community who you’re grateful for and why they have been a coronavirus Clubhouse Hero! If your submission is selected, we’ll ask for a photo. Send your submission to Teri Chadwick at tchadwick@clubhouse-intl.org


NEW RESOURCES ADDED TO OUR WEBSITE!