Our Mission About
Our Vision:
A world where people with a mental illness are able to continue to lead productive and rewarding lives.
Our Mission:
The Potential Place Society, through the ICCD Clubhouse model, provides opportunities to improve quality of life for people suffering from a mental illness. The Clubhouse recovery model promotes the concepts of participation, personal development and individual empowerment.
We Believe:
- People with a persistent mental illness have the potential to achieve a satisfying and meaningful life.
- Gainful employment as well as meaningful and productive social activities are powerful re-generative and re-integrative forces.
- The Clubhouse model can make real and positive differences in the lives of people with a mental illness.
- The user-supported program provides the most effective approach for our member’s reintegration into society.
Clubhouse Rehabilitation is Based on The Principles That:
- Most chronically mentally ill people have the potential to lead satisfying and productive lives.
- Meaningful and productive activities and gainful employment are powerful forces in human lives.
- Social interaction and adequate and pleasant housing are necessary elements leading to achieving a satisfying lifestyle.
Potential Place Clubhouse provides a non-judgmental and supportive environment in which the members can develop or regain the social and vocational skills, confidence, and self-esteem necessary to become useful and productive members of society. Within this environment members and staff participate together in a "work-ordered day" to do everything necessary to operate the Clubhouse and its programs.
The "work-ordered day" is unique in that the members and staff participate equally in policy development, program planning, program implementation, as well as research, facility upkeep and general maintenance. All decisions are made by consensus and everyone has an equal opportunity to provide input, with a result that everyone shares a sense of ownership of the facility and programs. These programs provide work opportunities for members in food services, business support, communications, outside employment, member outreach, education enhancement, research, and recreation planning. Well over 1,000 people with a mental illness (members) have been involved in developing and working in these programs at Potential Place, making significant contributions in day-to-day operations. It is through these activities that members develop the social and vocational skills they need to move out into the community with confidence and self-esteem. Countless members have taken short-term or long-term part-time jobs, many working for pay for the first time in years.
