About Us

We work to provide persons with mental health diagnoses the knowledge and skills development, social environment, and support to seek occupational opportunities and personal empowerment.
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What we do

Provide a Consistent Place
Members know that Clubhouse is a consistent space they can come any day Monday to Friday and experience understanding, acknowledgment, support, and community.
Support Health & Nutrition
A healthy consistent diet and nutrition play a role everyone's well-being. Clubhouse's kitchen, supported by the participation of members themselves, serves an affordable breakfast and lunch.
Assist navigation of government and Non-Profit Systems & Supports
Members at Clubhouse can receive assistance as they navigate a wide array of government and non-profit application processes, departments, and bureaucracies.
Teach Practical Skills
Skills, work experience, and support in entering or re-entering the workforce and seeking job and volunteer opportunities.
Foster Life Skills
Whether informally or through our programming, members can learn more about budgeting, scheduling, hygiene, home care, and more.
Nurture Participatory Habits
Participation in daily responsibilities builds accountability and healthy habits. Members are strongly encouraged to attend and participate in the various activities.
Recreation & Arts Programming
Members have the chance to work out in our fitness area, and work on art projects in a wide range of mediums to help build confidence and self expression.
Support Friendships & Fun
Members destress through friendships, games, and daily activities. By accepting and encouraging each other, members thrive and live independent and fulfilling lives.
Encourage Knowledge & Support Sharing
 Members and staff accept and support each other through the ups and downs of life. Everyone is given the opportunity to share skills and knowledge with each other.
Our Purpose
Clubhouse Winnipeg is a psychosocial non-clinical, non-medical rehabilitation community that provides wholistic support, work skills development, and social opportunities for persons living with mental health diagnoses. We believe in empowering individuals to live fuller lives, seek out employment opportunities, and increase their involvement in the community.
At Clubhouse, we seek to foster an environment which acknowledges and supports members recovering from mental diagnoses and help them develop skills to succeed in a workplace environment, whether that be through work related tasks, connecting with peers, or maintaining a stable daily life.
We focus on vocational, educational, recreational, residential, and social skills necessary to support and enrich our members' lives and help them achieve their goals. We do not provide psychiatric or counselling supports and are not a crisis centre. In partnership with the community, we encourage and support our members in seeking out the medical, psychiatric, or crisis supports they need and/or require.
Clubhouse Winnipeg's understanding of rehabilitation is multi-faceted. It can mean acquiring the skills and supports to live with persistent mental health diagnoses, it can mean dramatically reducing an individual's symptoms and adverse life affects, and it can also mean a full recovery. Along with our partner organizations, we are working towards a city and community that accepts, supports, and integrates individuals regardless of the state of their mental health.
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Programs

Programs

Personal Skills Development

Members have the opportunity to participate in various staff led workshops that focus on developing occupational skills. These workshops are meant to encourage members to learn about their occupational goals, whether that be employment, volunteering, going back to school, learning a new skill, or self discovery. Workshops on creating resumes and cover letters, the application and interview processes, and professionalism are a few of the focuses that help members reach their goals, build self confidence, and explore new opportunities.
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Occupational Skills Development

Members have the opportunity to participate in various staff led workshops that focus on developing occupational skills. These workshops are meant to encourage members to learn about their occupational goals, whether that be employment, volunteering, going back to school, learning a new skill, or self discovery. Workshops on creating resumes and cover letters, the application and interview processes, and professionalism are a few of the focuses that help members reach their goals, build self confidence, and explore new opportunities.
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Space Enhancement Program

The Space Enhancement program is an opportunity for members to receive assistance in their home in a non judgemental and supportive environment. With this program, we aim to help improve mental health, wellbeing, and self care. Before the visit, members meet with staff and discuss the areas they would like to target and work on in their living space. During the visit, we work in partnership with members to help organize, declutter, clean and/or learn to cook a simple meal. After the visit, a personalized schedule is made for each member so that they can continue these tasks on their own.
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Fitness

Clubhouse offers a free gym equipped with weights, treadmills, bikes, rowing machines and much more. With permission from their health care provider and/or support worker, members have access to the gym throughout the morning and afternoon. Staff are present at all times to ensure sanitation and safety.
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Arts Programming

We encourage members to find creative ways to express themselves and one way is through art. We are able to have different art supplies on hand and provide a space where members can come and freely create. We also offer volunteer led art workshops to learn a new medium or specific skill.
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A Day at Clubhouse

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Our Team

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Our History

History of Clubhouse Winnipeg

Clubhouse Winnipeg is Manitoba’s first and only psychosocial rehabilitation agency based on the Fountain House Model, which originated in New York City in the late 1940s. There are hundreds of Clubhouses worldwide helping adults gain work-oriented and life skills to live fuller lives, seek out employment opportunities, and increase their involvement in the community

Clubhouse Winnipeg's story begins in the early 1990s, when a number of parents, family members, and community stakeholders recognized the major gap in services available for adults with severe and persistent mental health challenges in the Winnipeg Region. Moreover, these individuals lacked a safe, positive, accepting and supportive environment where they could attend regularly. Recognizing that the Clubhouse/Fountain House model could address these needs, the group lobbied various Manitoba Government departments and public bodies to secure the funds necessary to start up Manitoba's first and only Clubhouse.

In late 1998, after years of public presentations and petitions, the necessary start-up funding was granted by the Province of Manitoba. The team could now begin to search for a suitable location and found 172 Sherbrook in the heart of West Broadway. Renovations began in January 1999, with opening taking place the day after Canada Day that same year. Clubhouse has been open every weekday since then, with the exception of statutory holidays and the mandatory COVID-19 lockdowns of 2020 and 2021.

About the Clubhouse Model

(from Clubhouse International)

The word “Clubhouse” derives from the original language that was used to communicate the work and vision of Fountain House, the very first Clubhouse, which was started in New York in 1948. Since its inception, Fountain House has served as the model for all subsequent Clubhouses that have been started around the world. Fountain House began when former patients of a New York psychiatric hospital began to meet together informally, as a kind of “club.” It was organized as a support system for people living with mental illness, rather than as a service or a treatment program. Communities around the world that have modeled themselves after Fountain House have embraced the term “Clubhouse,” because it clearly communicates the message of membership and belonging. This message of inclusion is at the very heart of the Clubhouse way of working.