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Joel Corcoran

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264 total appearances

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Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Joel Corcoran: Welcome, Needed, and Valued: The Clubhouse Approach

Meaning members, people living with mental illness, staff, people who volunteer on boards. These standards were developed and they're updated every two years. A rather cumbersome but important process of seeking consensus about what are the best practices. And they were first promulgated back in 1989 and have been updated every two years since then.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Joel Corcoran: Welcome, Needed, and Valued: The Clubhouse Approach

Clubhouses are trained on the basis of these standards and evaluated on the basis of these standards. If you go to any clubhouse in the world, you'll find the standards posted on the wall or on the tables or part of the meetings where people are talking about them all the time. For example, the first standard clubhouse membership is a voluntary and without time limits.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Joel Corcoran: Welcome, Needed, and Valued: The Clubhouse Approach

Clubhouses are trained on the basis of these standards and evaluated on the basis of these standards. If you go to any clubhouse in the world, you'll find the standards posted on the wall or on the tables or part of the meetings where people are talking about them all the time. For example, the first standard clubhouse membership is a voluntary and without time limits.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Joel Corcoran: Welcome, Needed, and Valued: The Clubhouse Approach

Clubhouses are trained on the basis of these standards and evaluated on the basis of these standards. If you go to any clubhouse in the world, you'll find the standards posted on the wall or on the tables or part of the meetings where people are talking about them all the time. For example, the first standard clubhouse membership is a voluntary and without time limits.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Joel Corcoran: Welcome, Needed, and Valued: The Clubhouse Approach

When someone becomes a member of a clubhouse, they do it because they want to. You can't get too sick or too healthy to be a member of a clubhouse. Once you have a clubhouse, you can always use that clubhouse. And people do. They use it a lot when they need it most, and they use it less when they don't need it so much.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Joel Corcoran: Welcome, Needed, and Valued: The Clubhouse Approach

When someone becomes a member of a clubhouse, they do it because they want to. You can't get too sick or too healthy to be a member of a clubhouse. Once you have a clubhouse, you can always use that clubhouse. And people do. They use it a lot when they need it most, and they use it less when they don't need it so much.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Joel Corcoran: Welcome, Needed, and Valued: The Clubhouse Approach

When someone becomes a member of a clubhouse, they do it because they want to. You can't get too sick or too healthy to be a member of a clubhouse. Once you have a clubhouse, you can always use that clubhouse. And people do. They use it a lot when they need it most, and they use it less when they don't need it so much.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Joel Corcoran: Welcome, Needed, and Valued: The Clubhouse Approach

There's a clubhouse in Worcester, Massachusetts called the Genesis Club. And they started saying a number of years ago, they said, we have wide doors to come in, but we have even wider doors to go out. And that's a simple answer to your question. At clubhouses, it's intentionally very simple and straightforward to become a member. There's no testing. There's no assessments.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Joel Corcoran: Welcome, Needed, and Valued: The Clubhouse Approach

There's a clubhouse in Worcester, Massachusetts called the Genesis Club. And they started saying a number of years ago, they said, we have wide doors to come in, but we have even wider doors to go out. And that's a simple answer to your question. At clubhouses, it's intentionally very simple and straightforward to become a member. There's no testing. There's no assessments.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Joel Corcoran: Welcome, Needed, and Valued: The Clubhouse Approach

There's a clubhouse in Worcester, Massachusetts called the Genesis Club. And they started saying a number of years ago, they said, we have wide doors to come in, but we have even wider doors to go out. And that's a simple answer to your question. At clubhouses, it's intentionally very simple and straightforward to become a member. There's no testing. There's no assessments.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Joel Corcoran: Welcome, Needed, and Valued: The Clubhouse Approach

You don't have to earn your way into a clubhouse. You don't have to get the permission of anybody or any program or anything. If you have a history of mental illness, you're welcomed into the clubhouse. So members come to the clubhouse in many different ways. Some members are referred by a medical professional, a psychiatrist or a therapist or a

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Joel Corcoran: Welcome, Needed, and Valued: The Clubhouse Approach

You don't have to earn your way into a clubhouse. You don't have to get the permission of anybody or any program or anything. If you have a history of mental illness, you're welcomed into the clubhouse. So members come to the clubhouse in many different ways. Some members are referred by a medical professional, a psychiatrist or a therapist or a

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Joel Corcoran: Welcome, Needed, and Valued: The Clubhouse Approach

You don't have to earn your way into a clubhouse. You don't have to get the permission of anybody or any program or anything. If you have a history of mental illness, you're welcomed into the clubhouse. So members come to the clubhouse in many different ways. Some members are referred by a medical professional, a psychiatrist or a therapist or a

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Joel Corcoran: Welcome, Needed, and Valued: The Clubhouse Approach

a primary care doctor, some by social workers or case managers or school disability offices. And many members are self-referred in what you can do to come to a clubhouse. And it's typically someone else who had the benefit of the clubhouse would tell her about it. When someone comes to the clubhouse, they might email, they might come

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Joel Corcoran: Welcome, Needed, and Valued: The Clubhouse Approach

a primary care doctor, some by social workers or case managers or school disability offices. And many members are self-referred in what you can do to come to a clubhouse. And it's typically someone else who had the benefit of the clubhouse would tell her about it. When someone comes to the clubhouse, they might email, they might come

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Joel Corcoran: Welcome, Needed, and Valued: The Clubhouse Approach

a primary care doctor, some by social workers or case managers or school disability offices. And many members are self-referred in what you can do to come to a clubhouse. And it's typically someone else who had the benefit of the clubhouse would tell her about it. When someone comes to the clubhouse, they might email, they might come

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Joel Corcoran: Welcome, Needed, and Valued: The Clubhouse Approach

knock on the front door they might call by telephone but they're invited to come for tour every clubhouse runs tours where they introduce people to how the clubhouse works they'll walk you through the clubhouse show you how it all works and if you have a history of mental illness and you're interested in being in a clubhouse typically you can become a clubhouse right away like that day or that week it's very easy there's not waiting lists typically at clubhouses and so someone just has to express an interest in being a member and have a history of mental illness

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Joel Corcoran: Welcome, Needed, and Valued: The Clubhouse Approach

knock on the front door they might call by telephone but they're invited to come for tour every clubhouse runs tours where they introduce people to how the clubhouse works they'll walk you through the clubhouse show you how it all works and if you have a history of mental illness and you're interested in being in a clubhouse typically you can become a clubhouse right away like that day or that week it's very easy there's not waiting lists typically at clubhouses and so someone just has to express an interest in being a member and have a history of mental illness

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Joel Corcoran: Welcome, Needed, and Valued: The Clubhouse Approach

knock on the front door they might call by telephone but they're invited to come for tour every clubhouse runs tours where they introduce people to how the clubhouse works they'll walk you through the clubhouse show you how it all works and if you have a history of mental illness and you're interested in being in a clubhouse typically you can become a clubhouse right away like that day or that week it's very easy there's not waiting lists typically at clubhouses and so someone just has to express an interest in being a member and have a history of mental illness

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Joel Corcoran: Welcome, Needed, and Valued: The Clubhouse Approach

To answer your question about getting out, it's all voluntary. So you can leave anytime you want. You can participate as much or as little as you want to.