The Role of Clubhouses in Recovery

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The Role of Clubhouses in Recovery
Michigan Clubhouse Regional Training
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Overview

• What is Recovery and why is everyone talking
  about it?
• Recovery perspectives
• The clubhouse role in recovery
• The importance of telling your story
• Questions

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What is Recovery?

• Historical perspectives
• Recovery as a medical construct
• Change in functioning, symptoms
• Symptoms no longer fulfill diagnostic criteria
• Symptoms have become less frequent and/or have
  ceased

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Historical perspectives

• Recovery as a psychosocial construct
• Increased social relationships with peers,
  family, and others
• Employment
• Living independently
• Recovery as a psychological construct
• An attitude, a philosophy which includes hope
• Not defining self as the illness or disorder

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Current View on Recovery

• Driven by SAMHSAs (Substance Abuse and Mental
  Health Services Administration) Recovery
  Consensus Statement 2004
• Why is this important?
• It drives funding
• We need to understand and communicate that
  clubhouse and recovery go hand in hand
• We need to make sure that our clubs are providing
  the best opportunities for members recovery

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The 10 Fundamental Components of Recovery

• Self-Direction The belief that one should be in
  control of their own path of recovery
• Individualized and Person-Centered Recovery is
  different for each individual because of
  different experiences, strengths,etc.
• Empowerment Let members be the driving force
  that conducts their own recovery
• Holistic Use of an approach that includes the
  whole person and the whole range of potential
  supports

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The 10 Fundamental Components of Recovery

• 5. Non-Linear a process based on continual
  growth, occasional setbacks, and learning from
  experience
• Strengths-Based a focus on strengths, assets
  and abilities
• Peer Support Peers/members provide each other
  with a sense of belonging, supportive
  relationships and community.

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The 10 Fundamental Components of Recovery

• Respect Self-respect and respect from community
  and society is essential for recovery
• Responsibility Recognizing that members are in
  charge of their own recovery and lives
• 10. Hope The essential and motivating message of
  a better future. Hope is the catalyst for the
  recovery process

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Clubhouse and Recovery

• Clubhouses have been around for over 50 years,
  and they have always been dedicated to recovery
  principles.
• From the ICCDs Mission statement
• ICCD 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,
  mutuality and unlimited opportunity to access the
  same worlds of friendship, housing, education and
  employment as the rest of society.

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Clubhouse and Recovery

• Clubhouses also offer an array of specific
  services from which members can choose as their
  needs and life goals indicate.
• Over the years Fountain House along with all of
  the clubhouses modeled after it, have
  continuously demonstrated that people with mental
  illness can successfully live and work in the
  community. Key to this success is an environment
  of support, acceptance, and commitment to the
  potential contribution and success of each
  individual regardless of the severity of his or
  her illness.

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Core Elements of Clubhouse

• Empowerment and Leadership
• Choosing when to attend and where to contribute
• Identifying and employing personal strengths
• Determining which clubhouse involvements best
  serve your recovery goals

• Working side by side with staff as colleagues
• Contributing to the day to day decision making
  and governance
• Engaging in operating all aspects of the
  clubhouse
• Advocating for yourself and for the clubhouse
• Mentoring other members

• Recovery components -
• Self-direction, individual and person-centered,
  empowerment, strengths-based

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Core Elements of Clubhouse

• Relationships
• Mutual Support provided to each other in and
  beyond the club
• Socializing and networking in the local community
  and with clubs around world
• Gaining a sense of belonging (guaranteed right of
  membership)

Recovery components holistic, peer support,
respect, strengths based, hope, non-linear
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Core Elements of Clubhouse

• The Work-Ordered Day
• Provides collaborative work which is central to
  recovery
• Provides meaningful tasks and activities which
  are necessary for the operation of Clubhouse
• Provides enough urgency to help members
  understand that they are needed
• Provide structure, focus, professional
  interactions and the means to develop the basic
  disciplines necessary to work in the community
• Recovery components Respect, empowerment, peer
  support, responsibility, hope

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Core Elements of Clubhouse

• Vocational Supports
• The value of work is promoted through the
  work-ordered day because of its collegial nature
  and a focus on productivity
• The clubhouse provides employment opportunities
  Transitional, Supported and Independent
  Employment
• These opportunities are provided to help members
  find and maintain employment and to work more
  independently as their vocational journey unfolds.

Recovery components Respect, empowerment, peer
support, responsibility, hope
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Clubhouse Strategies to Promote Recovery

• Member goals that are recovery based
• Clubhouse culture that is based on recovery not
  maintenance
• Clubhouse members feel a sense of cohesion,
  similarity, and fellowship
• Members who support others have a greater
  experience with recovery
• Clubs should include family support where
  possible
• Assist members in telling their recovery story

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Telling your Story

• When my mental illness began.
• How I lived.
• When I first came to the clubhouse..
• How clubhouse has helped me
• What I see for the future..

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Questions to ask your Clubhouse

• What can we do to help members take more
  ownership?
• What are the member attitudes towards recovery?
  What are staff attitudes?
• What can we do to make sure that members are
  using clubhouse as a tool for their recovery?

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Resources

• www.iccd.org
• www.modelprograms.samhsa.gov
• www.mi-clubhouse.org
• www.genesisliv.org