Club Stairways Programs
Club Stairways will be a place where people living with persistent mental illness come to rebuild their lives. The purpose of the club is to ensure a valued and legitimate social status for members and enable them to make meaningful contributions to the overall livelihood and welfare of their community. Club Stairways will provide an accepting place to spend the day, valuable work to perform within the organization, opportunities to connect with friends and co-workers, and access to employment and other resources within the wider community. As one resident of Stairways housing program said when he first learned about the clubhouse “I’m really excited about this because when I’m in an environment where everyone is pursuing something, it makes me want to pursue something too.
At the clubhouse it won’t be like ‘I’m Kevin. I’m schizophrenic’. It will be ‘I’m Kevin and I’m an artist’. I’ll be able to focus on being an artist instead of sitting around focusing on my schizophrenia”19.
Club Stairways will be a place where people living with persistent mental illness come to rebuild their lives. The purpose of the club is to ensure a valued and legitimate social status for members and enable them to make meaningful contributions to the overall livelihood and welfare of their community. Club Stairways will provide an accepting place to spend the day, valuable work to perform within the organization, opportunities to connect with friends and co-workers, and access to employment and other resources within the wider community. As one resident of Stairways housing program said when he first learned about the clubhouse “I’m really excited about this because when I’m in an environment where everyone is pursuing something, it makes me want to pursue something too.
At the clubhouse it won’t be like ‘I’m Kevin. I’m schizophrenic’. It will be ‘I’m Kevin and I’m an artist’. I’ll be able to focus on being an artist instead of sitting around focusing on my schizophrenia”19.