Potential Place
A Place of Hope in a Community that Cares
Welcome to create a community with a restorative environment for persons struggling with severe and persistent mental illness. All members have the opportunity to contribute and to benefit from the services and have the support of others. It is a place where the transistion between institutional care and independent living can finally be achieved.
Our Vision
A world where people with a mental illness are able to lead productive and rewarding lives.
Our Mission
The Potential Place Society, through the ICCD Clubhouse model, provides opportunities to improve quality of life for people suffering from a mental illness. The Clubhouse recovery model promotes the concepts of participation, personal development and individual empowerment.
Potential Place Clubhouse provides a non-judgmental and supportive environment in which the members can develop or regain the social and vocational skills, confidence, and self-esteem necessary to become useful and productive members of society. Within this environment members and staff participate together in a "work-ordered day" to do everything necessary to operate the Clubhouse and its programs.
The "work-ordered day" is unique in that the members and staff participate equally in policy and program planning, program implementation, as well as research, facility upkeep and general maintenance. All decisions are made by consensus and everyone has an equal opportunity to provide input, with a result that everyone shares a sense of ownership of the facility and programs. These programs provide work opportunities for members in food services, business support and communications, outside employment, member outreach, education enhancement, research, and recreation planning. Well over 1,000 people with a mental illness (members) have been involved in developing and working in these programs at Potential Place, making significant contributions in day-to-day operations. It is through these activities that members develop the social and vocational skills they need to move out into the community with confidence and self-esteem. Countless members have taken short-term or long-term part-time jobs, many working for pay for the first time in years.