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News & Updates:

• “Partnership Helps People Back to Work”  
  Livingston Daily.com - November 26, 2011
  
  Summary: Genesis House, based in Fowlerville, Michigan was in the news recently. The Clubhouse has developed successful partnerships with local businesses who support their transitional employment program. Genesis House member Brian Draganski suffers from bipolar disorder and, until October of this year, had been unemployed for six years. He was recently hired by Asahi Kasei Plastics through the transitional employment program. Genesis House’s partnership with Asahi Kasei began in 2005 and Draganski is the eighth Genesis House member to work at the company. Asahi Kasei recently received an award from the National Employment Expansion project in Washington, D.C. for its partnership with Genesis House. According to Bobbie Mazurek, safety and loss control specialist for Asahi Kasei, the Genesis House partnership works well. “Their work ethic is very strong; it’s a great asset for the company. It helps them and it helps us. We help each other in the program.” Genesis House director Lee Kellogg added, “Now they have a positive picture about adults with mental illness and what they’re capable of. It’s helpful in that way, too.” Genesis House also partners with Centurion Medical Products, T.J. Maxx and Old Navy and is always seeking new employment partners.
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• A recent study found that Clubhose members were more likely to report being in recovery and having a higher quality of life compared with a group of participants from consuer run "drop in" centers ( Mowbray, Woodward, Holter, et al, 2009). Clubhouse members indicate that the Clubhouse provides valuable oportunities to pursue meaningful activities that help them address their mental health recovery at their own pace (Stoffel, 2008)...
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• The international Clubhouse community remembers and honors the lives of Rudyard n. Propst, Anse Leroy and Jim Schmidt. These three "fire souls" will be missed. With respect and sadness, we wish them farewell.
  
  
  • Rudyard n. Propst, the founder and first Executive Director of the ICCD, died on June 16, 2011. As an international Clubhouse community, we mourn the loss of the man who fanned the Fountain House flame into a worldwide movement, and we celebrate his life...Read More
    
    
  • Anse Leroy, M.D. Unfortunately, we have lost Anse Leroy. After four months in hospital, she died on Saturday, April 30th 2011. Anse was a fiercely dedicated advocate for the Clubhouse model, both in theory and in practice... Read More
  
  
  • Jim Schmidt, James R. "Jim" Schmidt, who worked for 38 years at the Fountain House in New York City and served as its Executive Director 1982 to 1992, died August 11, 2011, of pancreatic cancer. Jim was born in 1927 in Queens...Read More
    
    
• Get an update on the status of ICCD's Japanese Clubhouses and Colleagues after the devastating earthquake and tsunami Read More
• The ICCD Clubhouse Community Mourns the Death of Barb Hennings:
  Barb Hennings, long-time member of Yahara House in Wisconsin, was a powerful advocate for people with mental illness. She never shirked from defending the rights of people living with mental illness to have dignity, respect, friendship, and equality. Barb was a founding member of the ICCD Faculty and helped to draft the original Standards for Clubhouse Programs, which now serve as a 'bill of rights' for Clubhouse members around the world. Her profound commitment to the values of Clubhouse equality and opportunity have helped to change the lives of members everywhere. The Clubhouse movement will miss Barb tremendously, and we owe her a great debt of gratitude.
  
  

• Announcing the ICCD 16th International Clubhouse Seminar. Read More.
  
  
• To view our training calendar of the new 2011 training dates schedulds at ICCD Certified Training Bases worldwide Click Here
  
  
• "Russia House, first certified Clubhouse in Moscow"
  August, 2010
  Russia House, in Moscow, is the first Clubhouse in Russia to become ICCD certified. Tanya Saphyannikova
  of Russia House reports that “The whole certification process was exciting and brought a lot of positive results to our community already….Also, we have already started finding additional funding for additional staff…”  Joel Corcoran congratulates Russia House, saying that “Tanya has gone to extraordinary lengths with much personal effort and sacrifice to make her dream of an ICCD certified Clubhouse in Moscow a reality. It is such a true pleasure to know that Russia House is there and making a real difference for people living with mental illness".