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Welcome to our Official Empowerment Clubhouse Newsletter 2022!
Member Driven…Member Designed!
Message from Executive Director
Since 2017, the MCCDC’s Empowerment Clubhouse (EC) has served Marin City and Marin County and is a powerful and vibrant place where people living with mental illness can find fellowship, hope, opportunity, and recovery through their Work Ordered Days (WOD). Member driven, the EC is part of the largest and most effective network of psychosocial rehabilitation service providers in the world through Clubhouse International. With over 300 clubhouses on six continents, our membership clubhouses provide the resources today for everyone with a mental illness to reclaim and live healthy, happy, and productive lives.
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.”-ELISABETH KÜBLER-ROSS
Did you know...?
- Mental health exists on a continuum. It can change - move up and down the continuum depending on different circumstances - and can get better or worse. Depending on where we are on the continuum, different support mechanisms are needed.
- Stigma – both personal or public – can interfere with seeking help and treatment. Talking about mental health and suicide can restore hope and provide a path for help and recovery.
- Social connection is the primary protective factor for those experiencing mental health conditions, suicidality, and substance overuse/addiction.
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1 in 5 U.S. adults experience mental illness each year and 1 in 20 U.S. adults experience serious mental illness each year
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50% of all lifetime mental illness begins by age 14, and 75% by age 24
- If you or someone you know is seeking support, there is help. Please contact 988 or text MARIN to 741741.
We are a(n)…
- Local Community-based solution to a global problem.
- Voluntary program that provides opportunities for work, education, wellness, and socialization.
- Evidenced-based approach that has been proven to help people with mental illness recover their lives.
Yes, our Empowerment Clubhouse is here to change lives and we are growing! Schedule your tour today, engage, and enroll in our new Hospitality and THRIVE Programs! Volunteers? Yes, we could use your help in the kitchen, gardening, outreach, community events, book clubs, Wellness Wednesdays, and more!
We are grateful to the County of Marin Behavioral Health and Recovery Services (BHRS) using Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) funding to make this program possible. With appreciation to Benita McLarin-MC-BHRS Director, Galen Main, Mental Health Services Act Coordinator, and Mark Parker, Peer Program Coordinator, for their support in helping us navigate through the challenges of COVID. Special thanks to Jack Yatsko, COO Clubhouse International, and his team for their guidance and resources.
We would also like to thank YOU as our Members, supporters, and donors to help grow this essential program. If you or someone you know may be suffering from mental illness, please know we are a phone call and visit away. Lifetime Membership is free.
And don’t forget to join us for lunch (12noon/$2) prepared daily by our culinary program. We would love to have you join us. All proceeds go to our EC program. Your presence benefits all of us!
Please contact me directly anytime, I would love to hear from you...
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