“One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn't as individuals.” – Jean Vanier

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May 2025

IMPORTANT UPDATE!

Thanks for your patience. Marin City Water Main Replacement is now complete!

Thank you, Clubhouse Members, for your patience these past few months. As you know and experienced, from February through early April, Marin City had a full water main replacement that included road closures and difficulty accessing the clubhouse; this included a few days of clubhouse building being closed for safety. While this did not stop our clubhouse operations, there was some inconvenience for many Members. Nonetheless, we were happy to support this Marin City project to help ensure our city's safety and efficiency. See you at clubhouse!

Reminder Click HERE to RSVP...

SPECIAL SOCIAL ACTIVITY

The Clubhouse is celebrating summer with their first baseball game event! Now through June 13, 2025, Ticket Prices for Members $10.00. Limited Seating! Members must register at Clubhouse at the Inspire & Create-Recreation Unit.

Members Check with Your Programs for Updates!

Hospitality-Culinary and Garden

Transitional, Supported, and Direct Placement Employment

Health, Wellness, and Education

Recreation

Inspire & Create

Volunteer Community

Enrollment & Business Administration

Transportation

EC Café

EC ADVISORY COMMITTEE 5/20/2025 MEETING

Minutes will be uploaded and available

Next Meeting July 17, 2025

Special Appreciation to Lee Stimmel of Blue Water Foundation, Tamara Ressler of Bank of Marin, and Nancy Vernon, Blue Path Health, Gabby Agar, Blue Path Health, and Edna Siljedic, Center for Volunteer and Nonprofit Leadership (CVNL.org), David Nelson, Clubhouse Member, Tyler Vasquez, Harald Junker, Billy Alabsi, Christina Junker, and Demetrius McClinton for your ongoing support.

Please refer to clubhouse calendar webpage for dates.

Keep sending in your photos and activities for our clubhouse Week of Action!

We will share these in next Newsletter!

Clubhouse International Worldwide Seminar resources will be made available by June 6th at clubhouse!

Please click HERE for Clubhouse International Press Release.

Welcome Alliance House

Salt Lake City, Utah

Welcome to California Rebecca, Rachel, and Margaret from Alliance House! It was great to meet you March 3rd and morning if the 4th and have some tasty dishes in our Culinary Unit. We look forward to staying in touch and hope you enjoyed our Empowerment Clubhouse Community as well as some San Francisco sightseeing; experiencing what makes our SF Bay so special.

Clubhouse Members

Clubhouse Making a Difference for Marquice

"My name is Marquice and I am a member of the Empowerment Clubhouse. I came here to rebuild my job and like skills and end a period of isolation from my mental health.

I would highly recommend the Clubhouse to anyone who has problems to work on. The programs and Work Ordered Days there really helped me start working on myself. I now renew my lifelong goal to work for Marin Transit as a bus driver."-Marquice

(Marquice works in the Culinary, manages the front desk, EC Café and works on special projects.)

Empowerment and Employment!

"I am Dean and was introduced to the Clubhouse by a close friend who told me about it’s programs and the atmosphere there. That was 9 months ago. There is a great, trust is all that has helped me work on me. I am finally taking responsibility for my life and becoming how to become better healthier person. Like many I suffer from PTSD and have mental health. I am just now entering hope for the future which is a new idea for me especially going on 60. I would highly recommend the Clubhouse to anyone who has mental health and personal issues that they want to work on. It is a place where they have became a part of, find work and where importantly heal."-Dean.

Special Thanks to St. Andrews Presbyterian Church for welcoming our clubhouse for special work projects.

Congratulations Eliazar (with Tyler Vasquez, EC Advisory Committee Member) on your new job at Angel Island Café! Clubhouse is so excited for you and your career journey. "My experience at clubhouse helped me build my confidence and get a job."-Eliazar

Eliazar enjoys working in the clubhouses Culinary and EC Café.

Transitional Employment Partners-Thank YOU!

The Empowerment Clubhouse is grateful for the Marin City CDC's three TE positions for Clubhouse Members

Program Coordinator-Filled
Janitorial Services-Filled
Office Assistant-Coming Soon

Please see TE Unit and meet with Job Placement Coach for any interest.

MCCSD positions TBA.

Please remember to complete Business Prospect Outreach form for any favorite employers to help build our pipeline! Check with unit for details. Job Search Binder is ready to go to help with direct placements.

Welcome Marin County Employment Team 4/17/25!

Clubhouse was honored to have received a special visit from the Marin County Employment Team! We were excited to share the countless benefits of clubhouse and essential Recovery through Work/Work Ordered Day! We look forward to your next visit and appreciate your referrals!

HIRED!

We are looking forward to sharing our Members employment with you in our next newsletter! We have several members who completed construction trades training and more! Share your story today and inspire fellow Members that new careers are possible with clubhouse.

Theo

"I am Theo, a Social Practitioner at the Clubhouse that is a part of my work. I have challenging Mental issues and was looking of a job amongst people who personally understood mental health issues.

The Clubhouse is a community that accepts you for being exactly who you are without judgment, and encourages helps you change in a healthy way. I really recommend the Clubhouse to anyone who needs to work on their mental health/physio social issues. My job at the Clubhouse allows me to contribute to something bigger than myself.

I look forward to continuing my work there and supporting my own future in which my mental health continues to grow in part by helping others."-Theo

Our new Greenhouse(s) are almost ready.

Calling all Members with Green Thumbs!

The Empowerment Clubhouse is grateful to the Marin County Parks for supporting their Garden Program through their FARE Measure A Grant!

More to come in our June Newsletter. Until then, please see how much our clubhouse has accomplished.

STEP ONE

FEB-It was all hands-on deck thanks to clubhouse. We have had Members from Culinary, Business Admin, Inspire & Create help with this very large project.

Special Work Orders are available to help the clubhouse with operations.

Special thanks to Jesse for using his truck!

STEP TWO

MAR-APR-All hands on deck! Unpacking and putting pieces of this greenhouse puzzle helped build teamwork, enhanced listening skills, learning how to say organized, and more.

Members from across all the clubhouse units all lent a hand whether building, providing refreshments, and support.

"I am not a gardener but excited to help everyone. I knew I could do it!" -Charles

We then managed to get to step three with the four walls up!

We Got This!

STEP THREE

MAY-It's time to finish the roof of this project.

Garden Planning meetings every Monday and Friday. Please check with clubhouse, your input matters!

More info to come.

Garden Tool Shed is next.

See you in June!

Podcast Prep Happening Now!

Inspire and Create Members are busy preparing for our Podcast! Be sure to check in with your unit for Work Ordered Day items.

Guest Speakers
Why Clubhouses are Needed
How the Clubhouse Model is a holistic, psychosocial solution for people living with mental health
How people get their lives back
Work Ordered Day Benefits
And more!

Young Adult Activities.

Come join us!

3pm-5pm

Did you know? Mental illness usually first occurs during young adulthood, ages 18 to 25, yet often people do not get to Clubhouses until their 30s or 40s or 50s. Early engagement of young adults in Clubhouses gives them allies, resources, and opportunities when the illness first strikes.

Meet with our young adults and help with planning, college prep, careers, and social activities.

Emergency Preparedness

Don't forget to RSVP for this very important Emergency Preparedness Training and learn life saving tips! Visit Inspire & Create-Health and Wellness Unit for Work Ordered Day.

Let's be prepared and safe.

What if improving your physical and mental health was as easy as riding the bus?

Breathing fresh air, driving safely, being physically active, and avoiding excessive stress are a few of the well-known steps toward living a healthy life style.

1) Public transit users are more active.

Individuals who use public transportation get over three times the amount of physical activity per day of those who don’t (approximately 19 minutes, rather than six minutes) by walking to stops and final destinations.

2) Buses are safer than individual vehicles.

Bus related accidents have one-twentieth the passenger fatality rates of automobile travel.

3) Public transportation reduces stress.

Public transportation improves access to education and employment, which in turn leads to better long-term economic opportunities.

4) Public buses keep air cleaner.

Pollution is estimated to cause as many deaths per year as traffic accidents. However, buses (especially newer diesel and electrically powered vehicles) produce less pollution than cars per passenger mile by utilizing advanced technologies and higher standards.

5) Riding public transportation saves money.

“Affordable transportation” generally means that an individual’s total travel expenses make up less than 20% of their household finances.

6) Public transportation provides access to essential needs later in life.

Visit the Clubhouse to learn more about public transportation resources or click on the TAM photo above!

What is "Work Ordered Day"?

“The work-ordered day and Clubhouse relationships are not two parallel worlds in the Clubhouse. They are one and the same. If there is no genuine, meaningful work-ordered day, in which staff are pushed into the position of needing members, then there can be no real, healing, Standards-based Clubhouse relationships. To be healed, we need to...

(Click HERE or photo to read more...")

Friday Fun Nights, Wellness Wednesdays, and Social Events!

Members please RSVP for our Friday Dinner & Movie Nights and Social Events. Check in with Clubhouse for details.

Completely Free

Kick It California costs nothing. No strings attached.

Click photo for link to site.

Skilled Coaches

Our highly trained Quit Coaches know what works when it comes to quitting and have experience helping people of all ages, genders and backgrounds

If you need to talk, the 988 Lifeline is here.

At the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, we understand that life's challenges can sometimes be difficult. Whether you're facing mental health struggles, emotional distress, alcohol or drug use concerns, or just need someone to talk to, our caring counselors are here for you. You are not alone.

Need help with finding a job, computer skills, or upskilling your talents?

Visit our T.H.R.I.V.E. Unit and let's work together to help you achieve your goals.

Transitional Employment, Supported Employment, Direct Employment!

We got you.

"OD Free Marin is a community-based, overdose prevention coalition comprised of four action teams and a steering committee. Hundreds of community partners, individuals, organizations, and agencies from across sectors have contributed to the coalition over the past decade. Working together we strive to ensure a coordinated, comprehensive, and collective approach to our work...(Click HERE or Photo to learn more.)

Clubhouse International WANA Webinars!

Be inspired and join the Empowerment Clubhouse as we watch and learn from Clubhouse International's WANA Webinars!

Click to Watch Today!

We want to hear from YOU!

(415) 339-2843 or email clubhouse at empowermentclubhouse@marincitycdc.org or empowermentclubhouse@gmail.com

Please help us make our clubhouse the best ever! Please complete the survey and share your ideas, feelings, and thoughts!

Click HERE for survey or on photo.

Newsletter Stories, Photos, Articles, and Ideas DUE by the 3rd Thursday of each month-Submit to the Inspire & Create Unit.

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