Accreditation Press Release

Valentines for Hospice

On Monday February 9, 2015, the clubhouse presented 20 Valentine cards to Presbyterian Hospice of Mid America. They asked in an article for people to send Valentines to their clients (thru them). So we got busy and made a variety of funny and pretty Valentine cards for them. Their director, Kristen Brown, was unable to make it but sent someone to pick them up. Clubhouse is always happy to make someone’s day a little happier.

Maggie Payne

Park Hills Clubhouse

The Friends in Action Clubhouse, an accredited Clubhouse of Clubhouse International, is a psychosocial rehabilitation center. We join Clubhouse work units for our overall wellness. Clubhouse helps people with life skills and self-utilization on a daily basis. Member have the options of learning to cook, clean, the importance of sanitation, budgeting, healthy meal planning, and medication management. Transportation is offered to and from Clubhouse. Staff offer "community needs" opportunities, for rides to and from doctor's visits or any other need. They also offer an "evening, weekend, and holiday" option where we get to travel for "retail therapy" which is personal shopping or just hanging out singing karaoke at the Clubhouse. Clubhouse also offered an enthusiastic art department in which members learn how to create art. We would like to see you at Clubhouse. There is plenty to become involved with.
Bill T

CALL FOR ARTWORK SUBMISSIONS

CALL FOR ARTWORK SUBMISSIONS

“Supporting Recovery Through Art”

The 7th Annual Friends in Action Clubhouse Art Exhibit

Saturday, April 11, 2015 • 4 – 8 p.m.

The Factory

• 204 South A Street • Farmington, MO 63640

Organizers of the 7th Annual “Friends in Action” Clubhouse Art Exhibit are asking for submissions from artists in our community. If you are on your own recovery journey, or if you want to support those who are, please join us. Through this event and other efforts, the Clubhouse hopes to fight the stigma of mental illness.

For more information or to submit your artwork, please contact Cindy Hoeflein at 573-431-9620 or clh0320@bjc.org.

All submissions must be framed and ready to hang.

Donations accepted through March 25. In addition to submissions by members of the community, this exhibit will feature artwork created by Clubhouse members and staff and consumers of BJC Behavioral Health. The goal is to relocate into a larger facility to allow for membership growth. With your support we will be closer to our goal!

• Ra ffle
• Refreshments provided
• Live auction with select art pieces at 6 p.m.

Our Opportunity

On Tuesday, January 27th, I along with two other Clubhouse members were given a wonderful opportunity. We were invited to the BJC monthly agency meeting. We talked about NAMI (The National Alliance of Mental Illness) and some of the positive events we at Clubhouse have been able to to take part in. This presentation involved NAMI. We discussed the NAMI facilitator training that was offered this past August. Being able to take part in that training both challenged and insprired those of us who took it. Being able to reach out and be of help and emotional support to our peers has been a very good experience. We also talked about the NAMI conferences that myself and others from Clubhouse have been able to attend. We talked about keeping a positive mental outlook, taking our medications regularly, advocating for ourselves, and how being a part of NAMI forms bonds. We told workers about the monthly NAMI meeting which is held the second Thursday of every month. We are hoping this will inspire BJC workers to inform their clients to reach out to NAMI and Clubhouse.
Letitia D

How Clubhouse Effects Me

What can I say about Clubhouse? There is interaction of activities of arts and crafts, snack shack, and kitchen. There are many people of diversity that help keep Clubhouse interesting. Clubhouse helps me toward self-acctualization through participation in work units and the group helps pass the day.
Bill T

CHANGES

Along with all the new changes at Clubhouse for our goal for accreditation are many changes. The one change I am concerned with is our craft classes. We used to have two or three days a week at Clubhouse during the work ordered day as part of the Art work unit. Now since we are doing the work ordered day we cannot do crafts during the day.
We have had several craft groups in the evenings, during our Evening Weekend and Holiday program. We have had several groups in attendance. We did a lot of Christmas crafts with beads, made necklaces our of polymer clay, made Christmaas wreaths, and small Christmas trees.The okans are to have at least two craft evenings every month. Everyone seemed to really enjoy making the crafts. There was a lot of laughter and questions about what we were going to do next time. Along with the craft evenings we ahve had other activities we have had. The pot luck dinner went so well the food was wonderful and everyone had such a good time. We also has a New Year's Eve party and toasted the New Year with sparkling cider and sparkling grape juice. Everyone had a great time dancing the evening away.
We have plans for more evening and weekend activities. We have a karaoke and pizza evening event plannd and we have had a movie and dinner night for a long time. New ideas for future evening or weekend activities are always welcome. Come and see what we are doing and maybe you will just find out that you are havinf a great time. Fun and food? What more could you ask for? We may have to do our art classes in the evenings also, the accreditation process is going into effect a little at a time and we will just have to wait until the process has been fully implemented to know what direction the art class will have to take. Everybody will have to adjust to all of the new changes. Who knows they may even be better than what we were already doing/
Betty W