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Q: What is a clubhouse?
A: Clubhouse programs provide adults living with serious mental illnesses the opportunity to reach their
potential through education, training, community reintegration and gainful employment.
Q: Who funds/supports Chobee Clubhouse?
A: Chobee Clubhouse’s Managing Entity is Mental Health Association in Indian River County.
Chobee Clubhouse has support from Florida Clubhouse Coalition and Clubhouse International.
Q: Why do we call our members “members” rather than client, mental patient, disabled etc.?
A: The clubhouse offers a complete change and different perspective. It is designed to be a place where a
person living with mental illness is not treated as a patient and is not defined by a disability label. In a
Clubhouse, a person with mental illness is seen as a valued participant, a colleague and as someone who has
something to contribute to the rest of the group. Each person is a critical part of a community engaged in
important work.
Q: How could a clubhouse membership benefit someone living with mental illness?
A: Based on the clubhouse model of psychosocial rehabilitation, members can recover by gaining access to
opportunities for employment, socialization, education, skill development, housing and improved wellness.
Q: Who can be a member?
A: Membership in a Clubhouse is open to adults who have a history of mental illness.
Q: Who is NOT eligible to be a member?
A: The following conditions make an applicant ineligible for enrollment: anyone who is a harm to themselves
or others, severe developmental disabilities, traumatic brain injury.
Q: What is the cost?
A: It does not cost anything to be a member, lunch is served daily and the cost is $1.00. Members can also
purchase snacks from the snack bar for 25 cents.
Q: What is the role of the staff in the clubhouse?
A: They are in charge of engaging with members as colleagues in important work, and to be encouraging with
people who might not yet believe in themselves.
Q: Can someone that is interested in working find a job, while at the clubhouse?
A: Clubhouses enables its members to return to work through Transitional Employment, Supported
Employment and Independent Employment.
Q: Can someone work at the clubhouse, for paid employment?
A: Clubhouses do not provide employment to members through in-house businesses.
Q: What is Transitional Employment?
A: Transitional Employment is a paid employment opportunity for a member that would like to return to work
that needs extra support during their time on the job. Transitional Employment is very unique and consists of:
• Part-time position only
• 6-9 month rotating position
• Clubhouse (CH) placement managers learn the job in advance of employee placement and train the
employee on the job requirements
• CH placement managers train the member on the job
• CH staff accompanies the member to their orientation and on the job until they feel comfortable
• Guaranteed job coverage – CH guarantees that the entry-level job will be covered 100% of the time by
the employee or by a clubhouse placement manager. When a placement manager covers a job, this is
done at no cost to the employer.
• CH staff have ongoing communication with employer to go over member’s job performance and
concerns
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