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The mission of Grand Avenue Club is to provide adults who have experienced mental illness with pre-vocational training, paid employment opportunities, supported education and enriching evenings/weekend/holiday programming.
The “Clubhouse Model” is a community mental health service model that helps people with a history of serious mental illness rejoin society and maintain their place in it; it builds on people's strengths and provides mutual support, along with professional staff support, for people to receive prevocational work training, educational opportunities, and social support.
Grand Avenue Club helps members re-enter the workforce and become healthier:
Members earned $1.4 Million in taxable earnings in 2017, exceeding our annual operating budget. Training with short-term employment oversight by Clubhouse staff leads members to gain competitive jobs and stay on them longer.
Grand Avenue Club’s services cost one-third the amount of similar community psychiatry interventions.
Reduces the need for inpatient psychiatric services
Clubhouse membership is cited as having an 80% reduction in total days hospitalized and 48% reduction in the number of hospitalizations
Cost to Medicare over one year: our members = $5,697; non-member = $14,765
Membership has proven to reduce incarcerations and help those with a criminal record get a second chance
Evidence-based intervention
Community vs. Isolation; Support vs. Separation
