HUDSON VALLEY CLUBHOUSE
Welcome.
Community and a opportunity for hope.
About Hudson Valley Clubhouse
Our Community
Hudson Valley Clubhouse will join a coalition of more than 174 accredited Clubhouses in the United States.
The Hudson Valley Clubhouse offers people living with serious mental illness a supportive community to foster long term recovery. When you join our Clubhouse at 98 Cannon Street, you become a member alongside peers and staff. We value each other, we work together, and we believe community is the best therapy. At the Clubhouse, you can build a productive and purposeful future for yourself.
A Day at the Clubhouse
At the Clubhouse, each day’s activities are structured like a day in the workplace, “a work-ordered day.” You will find friends and colleagues in work that reflects your own immediate interests and longer term goals, ranging from finding a job to returning to school to finding a place to live, and beyond. Every member of the Clubhouse contributes to our operation as we meet daily, meal plan and cook together, keep our house clean, reach out to support fellow members, and advocate for mental health.
Education
High school and college are often interrupted by serious mental illness. The Clubhouse Education unit offers members a place to reconnect, and restart their schooling as they wish. Together with fellow members, you can reach out to local schools, apply for admission, revise or extend your program of education. We support each other in tutoring, and broader curriculum planning, as we work to achieve career goals.
Health and Wellness
Our approach to mental health recovery begins with the basics of self care. We make lunch together at the Clubhouse. Members and staff plan a menu, prepare the meal and enjoy healthy eating together. Often members plan in house exercise classes, yoga or stretch, pilates or weight training. And we enjoy music and arts whenever possible. We believe that a holistic approach to wellness nourishes mind, body and spirit for a long term healthy life.
Advocacy
When you speak to legislators, policymakers, lobbyists, and healthcare professionals you teach them how important it is for them to pass bills and laws that support programs like the Clubhouse. What’s more, as a Clubhouse member you tell them what our community can do for recovery that no other community mental health initiative does. Your story will attract the media. Speak out to make leaders aware so they can work to fund more Clubhouse programs.
Become a Hudson Valley Clubhouse Member
When you become a Hudson Valley Clubhouse member, you join a community that values your contribution, insight, and ambition. We want to see all our members lead dignified lives and realize their dreams. Hudson Valley Clubhouse currently operates programs at 98 Cannon Street, Poughkeepsie, New York 12601