What is Clubhouse?

Spring City Corner Clubhouse is an environment that empowers

individuals, socially and vocationally disabled by mental illness, to achieve or retain the confidence and skills necessary to lead vocationally productive

and socially satisfying lives.

The Fundamental Rights of

Clubhouse

A guaranteed right to a place to come.

A guaranteed right to meaningful relationships.

A guaranteed right to meaningful work.

A guaranteed right to a place to return.

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March 2018 Happy St. Patrick’s Day

May love and laughter light your days,

and warm your heart and home. May good and faithful friends be yours,

wherever you may roam. May peace and plenty bless your world

with joy that endures. May all life’s passing seasons

bring the best to you and yours.

~Irish Blessing

Spring City Corner Clubhouse 247 Wisconsin Avenue Waukesha, WI 53186

Mon Thru Friday 8:00-3:00pm Phone: 262-549-6460

Accreditation (Recognition as a Certified Clubhouse)

To move forward we need all colleagues input. Please come in and share your important and needed suggestions.

*Please see page 5 for more information.

Public Hearing

Thursday April 5th @ 7pm

Meet New & Current Colleagues Hi, my name is Rose B, and I have been a Clubhouse Colleague since April of 2014. I learned about Clubhouse while attending a NAMI Care Connection support group. I heard that Clubhouse is a place that empowers individuals with a mental illness, and offers many support services. I have worked a long time on recovery, and feel it is time to work on becoming competitively employed. Clubhouse was and is the place to start. After taking a Clubhouse tour, I was very impressed with the entire operation; how organized it is run, and how staff and colleagues work together to keep it running. There are varied areas of work (Culinary, Clerical, and Maintenance), giving everyone a chance to work at a level or pace they feel comfortable with. It is very helpful that the computer software is current, with staff and colleagues available to help you learn. Julie spent many hours to construct a professional resume for me and continues to assist with the job application process. Sharon, personally met with me, as she and Julie were concerned about my health. I was reassured that my journey is at my pace, and not anyone else’s. DVR services are available, and there are many different options for me to seek employment. If it doesn’t work for me, I know that Clubhouse is here for support, and will continue to help me on my journey. Everyone has been very friendly and respectful, and I appreciate the many times a staff member has taken the time to listen to my story. Not just listen to my story, but take an interest, and honestly care about my well-being. Clubhouse continues to improve the environment, by encouraging teamwork, being social, and keeping a positive attitude. It is a place that offers support in mind, body and soul. Thank you Clubhouse!

I am blessed beyond belief!

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Testimonies/Info/Updates

A New Beginning By, Ken K.

We have all endured Wisconsin win-ters. Cold temps, snow and dreary skies have kept us indoors most of the time, trying to stay warm and cozy. But relief is on the way. Soon flakes and ice and bitterness will give way to rain, green grass, flowers, and warmth. Things come alive in the springtime. Not only in nature, but we do too. There is a “new-ness” in the air, and it is palpable. Spring lifts the spirits and prepares us for the hot summer months ahead. Eagerness to enjoy outdoor activities like swim-ming, going to festivals, and barbecu-ing in the backyard fills our hearts and minds with anticipation. Spring can also be a time of renewal and rebirth. Having been indoors most of the chilly winter months may have left us depressed, inactive, and rest-less. Change is a big part of spring-time. Not only in the external world, but internally. We feel revived, reju-venated, ready for something new. A beginning. Is there something in your life you wish to change? Something that, like a winter coat, you wish to shed and leave behind? What does your heart and soul crave? Springtime is a perfect opportunity to address those questions. Perhaps life experi-ences have left you cold and hard-ened, like icicles hanging from a win-dowsill. A fresh perspective on what you want and who you wish to be-come can melt away any feelings of failure or low self-worth. A new you begins to bloom. You begin to see things as they truly are. All the pain and suffering all the self-doubt, all the negativity is washed away down-stream. The sun shines again. You feel the warmth. You begin to perk up. Your energy is renewed. You step out into a whole new world; a whole new you. Embrace yourself and em-brace this new season. This is a time of new beginnings. You have it in you to make a change!

Come in and Check it Out

New this year at Club-house! We have made up-grades to our furniture, window treatments, ta-bles, microwaves, rugs and mats as well is sever-al new dry-erase boards. We invite you to see how we have improved these items.

Announcements

Come join us on our journey to mak-ing Clubhouse a positive environment by: Celebrating Friday’s Goal Board Advocacy Policy Book Host Wellness Topics Reconstruction of the Basement Fun Activities Following Meetings Posting Positive Quotes

Public Hearing

Thursday April 5th @7pm. If you would like to advocate for the Club-house either by speaking or writing a letter that would be great. You can also advocate by coming and support-ing the clubhouse.

St. Patrick’s Day Poem

St. Patrick's Day is here, you see. We'll pick some shamrocks, one,

two, three. We'll count the leaves and look

them over, Maybe find a four-leafed clover.

I'll sew green buttons on my vest,

Green for St. Patrick is the best. I'll wear a green hat, very high, And dance a jig--at least I'll try!

~Author Unknown

Silly Little Leprechaun

Ireland’s National Fairy, known to be cobblers or shoemakers. Legend has it, if you catch a leprechaun, he will offer

you his Pot of Gold, but be careful he’s a trickster!

Daylight Saving Begins

Turn your clocks ahead 1 hour before you go to bed Saturday night!

Welcome March

As they say, “March comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb?”

Let’s hope so!

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Culinary Department

We enjoyed Valentine’s Day together sharing treats and good

conversation! We will be celebrating Fridays with an extended lunch where we

recognize each others achievements, goals, birthdays, etc. Please join us to celebrate

you!

January Kitchen Report Lunch Sales: $148.00 Snack Shop Sales: $57.00 Free Lunches: 6 @ $12.00 Total people for lunch:100 Lunch + Snack Shop Sales: $205.00

Clerical Department

We are feeling the energy again!!! Come join us in our accreditation

journey. We need everyone’s input to create a Clubhouse that

represents each and every person. YOU ARE CLUBHOUSE and what you say and what you do makes a difference. YOU ARE

IMPORTANT...YOU MATTER. We need your talent and expertise on many topics. All of us together create a whole while only a few create a hole. I believe in us and

know that as we move forward we will raise each other up and be

proud of what we create!

January Clerical Report Tours: 2 Orientations: 0 New Members: 2 Total Members This Year: 45 Daily Average Attendance: 10.6

House Meeting Updates

We will be perusing accreditation

from the ICCD. We are working on getting TEs

(Transitional Employment) up and running. We first need to do outreach in our

community to find partners to host TEs.

Goal board: Colleagues setting goals daily, weekly or monthly.

Celebrating Fridays. Having extended lunches, celebrating birthdays, job anniversaries and ..etc.

We are posting inspirational quotes. We are going to take 10 minutes after

meetings to do something fun such as; trivia questions, share a funny story...etc.

Colleagues are touring The Grand Avenue Club.

Please join us for our second Wed. of the month, March 14th, big House Meeting discussion @ 10am: 1. Yearly thank you card to donors 2. Policy meeting to keep the policy

book updated 3. More specific Colleague Training 4. Culinary—projects and

celebratory board

We Are And Have Been Open! For those of you who heard we are

closing, WE ARE NOT! Our phones have not been working and have been replaced with a brand new system. Please let others know we are open for business as usual.

Disclaimer

Articles will be considered for Publication in the Spring City Pathway by our

Newsletter Committee, based on their relevance and appropriateness to Spring City Clubhouse, and

Clubhouse Ideals. They should be related to Recovery within the Clubhouse Model.

The Newsletter Committee reserves the right to cut and edit, as needed, without compromising the

intent or meaning of the author

Public Relations Meeting Update We have completed the contact list of Churches and will be sending out the introduction email (letter) of what Clubhouse is soon. We are now

compiling doctor contact info.

Employment Workshop Update We continue to hold monthly meetings the 1st Thursday of the month.

Our last discussion included overcoming fears and building self confidence. Our next meeting is March 1st @ 2pm on Effective Comm.

Newsletter Meeting Updates

Newsletter meeting times have changed to 1:30pm every 2nd Monday of the month. Our next meeting is March 12th. Thank you for all your

articles and please keep them coming!

Colleague Training

Snack Shop Attendant: 8 people attended and Songra lead the colleague training. We learned how to become a successful snack shop attendant. Rotating colleague trainings are held every Tuesday @ 10am.

Clubhouse Updates

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The Break Room

*****Words of Wisdom*****

Learn to love without condition. Talk

without bad intention. Give without

any reason. And most of all, care for

people without any expectation.

— Unknown

Fun Facts

There are 34 million Irish people in the USA, and only 4.5 million in Ireland. The chances of finding a four leaf clover is 1:10,000. The original color of St. Patrick’s Day was blue, but it changed to green in the 17th century.

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Editorial Page

As you may be aware, of we are beginning the process of becoming an Accredited Clubhouse with Clubhouse International. There are many steps in this process and we need many hands to complete the work required for accreditation. Our first step was to reach out to Grand Avenue Clubhouse (GAC) in Milwaukee. Our next steps in-clude doing a self-study, hosting a site visit, make corrections re-quired by Clubhouse International and then achieving Accreditation Status. At the same time we are working on accreditation we need to get two other very important components of clubhouse going as well. First we need to get transi-tional employment up and running, and finally we need to increase our membership and attendance num-bers. If we can work on this collab-oratively, we will be able to achieve these lofty goals! On January 31st, Josh, Julie, Lukas and Songra all spent the day at the GAC. Their feedback is how positive the environment at the clubhouse was. Their facility is a very large, beautiful old building in downtown Milwaukee, and all were impressed by the history the building holds. Like our club-house, they hold morning meetings and members sign up for the objec-tives for the day. They had three units. First was the Clerical/Administration. Here they worked on the daily operations of the club-house. They kept track of attend-ance, put together part of their dai-ly newsletter, among other things. In the Culinary Unit, they had a snack-shop where people could get coffee and had a room where peo-ple could congregate. They had many people in this department all working to make the morning and afternoon meals successful!

Finally there was the Employment/Education Unit. This is where they worked on employment and educa-tion goals for the members, they have a library where you are able to check out books, they also prepare articles and reports for the daily newsletter. On this floor they also had animals to care for. The one thing that was noticed was that peo-ple were anxious to help! They want-ed their clubhouse to succeed and they put all their energy to creating a positive environment where every-one wanted to help each other. We will be visiting this clubhouse more and will invite them to help us im-prove our clubhouse to achieve our goal of accreditation. If you are inter-ested in visiting GAC, please stop in or call the Clubhouse to find out when we are planning another outing there! When we were at the GAC, they gave us a copy of the self-study document. This document goes over, in great detail, each of the 37 club-house standards. We must answer how we are meeting the expectation of the standard and give examples. If we are not meeting them, how will we make the changes in order to meet the expectations? It is very im-portant to have as many members give input as possible. Each day we are reviewing with members in at-tendance on how we rate for our compliance with the standards, and the more input that we have, the bet-ter our report will be. So please, if you are available, come help us to identify where we are doing well, and more importantly where we need to improve and how we can make these improvements. After the self-study is complete, Clubhouse International will be sending out accreditors who will ana-lyze how we do things. This is a 3-4 day process and when they have completed it they provide us with a Findings Report. In this report it will spell out where our shortcomings are and what we need to improve, as well as, where we meet or excel in standards compliance. For those shortcomings, we need to make re-quired improvements. Once those improvements are implemented and verified, and TEs are running smoothly for about one year, we can achieve accreditation.

One big part of accreditation is having transitional employment (TE) for members. What is transi-tional employment, you might be asking? This is an employment sight where members can test the waters to see if they are ready for employment. We look for em-ployers to host the TEs. They pro-vide a job, we provide the training to our members to be successful in competitive employment. We also provide coverage for the job in case the employee is sick or unable to attend work on a given day. These TEs can last a few weeks and up to 9 months. They average a 6 month duration. After that the employee can look for another TE or can begin searching for completive employ-ment in their community. These TEs are designed to have mem-bers work out of and not become permanent employment. Howev-er, there are exceptions where the employer wants to hire a specific employee. We need members who are looking to enter or re-enter the workforce and would like to try TEs as well! Another important step to increase our member numbers and the dai-ly attendance numbers. We have got so much work to do with these lofty goals that we need members to help us achieve them. We have our public relations meetings in full swing and are working to get the word out about Clubhouse to doctors, churches, mental health facilities, and employers who would be willing to host TEs. We need to have this work done soon-er than later! This is your clubhouse, and WE NEED YOU! If you haven’t been in for some time, please come in and see all the improvements that we are working towards. It is only with your input and help that we will be able to achieve accredita-tion, restart our TEs and increase our numbers.

Important Dates to Remember

Daylight Saving Begins: Sunday, March 11th

St Patrick's Day: Saturday, March 17th

First Day of Spring: Tuesday, March 20th

This Month’s

Contributors

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Shari S. Julie L. Sharon D. Ken K. Matt T. Cheryl K. Sally M.

Songra S. W. Rose B. Marie U. Steve M. Josh C. Ted S. Irma F.

Upcoming Community Events

The Shamrock Club of Wisconsin's 52nd Annual St. Patrick's Day Parade

Saturday, March 10th, 2018. Parade starts at noon (Downtown Milwaukee)

Waukesha Civic Theatre Presents:

CLUE: A musical comedy March 9th-25th Various days and times.

Heather C. 3/03 Jean C. 3/03 Sharon S. 3/04 Joshua C. 3/09 Mike B. 3/11 Tracy L. 3/15 Juliana J. 3/27 Karen M. 3/28 Cary H. 3/30

Mike H. 18yrs. 3/07/2000 Clayton P. 10yrs. 3/18/2008 Benjamin S. 9yrs. 3/24/2009 Richard H. 8yrs. 3/19/2010 Matt T. 7yrs. 3/21/2011 Michele N. 3yrs. 3/02/2015 Nicholas G. 3yrs. 3/03/2015 Ashley P. 3yrs. 3/10/2015 Paul K. 1yr. 3/16/2017

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 Meatballs and Egg Noodles

2 Chef Choice

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4 5

Pigs in Blan-ket

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Salad Bar

7 Soup & Sand-

wich

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Potato Bar

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Chef Choice

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Chicken Wings and Ranch Blue cheese Hot

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Pizza

14 Soup & Sand-

wich

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Nacho Del Grande

16 Chef Choice

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Spaghetti

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Appetizer

21

Soup & Sandwich

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Pancakes

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Chef Choice

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25 26 Ring Bologna

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Pork Chops

28 Soup & Sand-

wich

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Veggie Pizza

30 Chef Choice

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March 2018-Menu

“Subject to Change” Lunches are now $2.00

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House Meeting

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March 2018-Meetings

*Colleague training is an opportunity to work side by side with others to adapt and learn a new skill so that you can apply

such

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 9:30am

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2:00pm Em-

ployment Work-

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4 5 6 9:30 Menu Plan-ning

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Colleague Train-ing

7 10am House Meeting

1:30 Menu Plan-

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8 WEAR YOUR NAMI SHIRT

9:30am

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11 12 1:30pm

Newsletter Meeting

13 10am

Colleague Train-ing

(Orientation)

14 10am

House Meeting

2:00 Public Re-lations

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House Meeting

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28 WEAR YOUR NAMI SHIRT 10:00 House Meeting

29 9:30 am Standard Meeting