FELLOWSHIP PLACE INC
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Mission Statement
Fellowship Place's Mission is to serve adults with mental illness by offering a full range of therapeutic support and rehabilitation services that promote independence, wellness, and a meaningful life.
About This Cause
Fellowship Place has over 64 years of helping people with mental illness manage their illness, learn new skills, and develop valued roles in the broader community. Open 365 days a year, the agency’s campus serves over 1000 low-income adults living with a mental illness, or a co-occurring mental illness & substance use disorder, and homeless adults. The majority suffer from schizophrenia, major depression, or bipolar disorder. Common struggles among them include poverty, food insecurity, inadequate housing, unemployment, and poor physical health. Half have been homeless at least once in their lives. Objectives are to assist them in various aspects of everyday living, with a focus on housing, employment, education, basic needs, & social integration. Traditional psychiatric care & medication alone cannot help persons with serious mental illness stay off the streets, get a job, maintain their housing, or go back to school. Fellowship Place’s holistic services complement & enhance traditional psychiatric care provided in hospital & clinic settings. Brief descriptions of core programs: • Daytime drop-in program for sheltered & unsheltered homeless. The majority served are on a wait list for a shelter bed in the community and those choosing to live outside in places not meant for human habitation, such as abandoned buildings, parks, a tent, or the streets. Open 7 days a week, services focus on providing access to basic needs, including meals, showers & laundry facilities. Caseworkers assist with securing personal documents necessary to apply for housing, employment, and government entitlements. • Social Rehab Center: A safe space where people with chronic mental illness may congregate, receive & engage in a variety of support services and positive activities, and connect with others facing similar challenges. Including health & wellness programs, social & recreational programs, therapeutic support groups, expressive arts therapy, physical recreation programs, and a Daily Meal program that addresses hunger & food insecurity. • Career Development: Prevocational & vocational services to help individuals with mental illness develop the skills & confidence required to find and keep a job. Employment services include resume writing workshops, mock interviews, assistance with job searches & job placement. Supported Education services include GED classes, tutoring, assistance enrolling in post-secondary education & job training programs, and a six-month Food Service training program, which leads to ServSafe certification. • Permanent Supported Housing: The agency operates 4 apartment buildings that provide deeply affordable housing & casework services for 45 individuals with a history of chronic homelessness and/or a psychiatric disability. Staff provide individualized services to help tenants remain successful in independent community living, e.g., maintaining their apartment, managing budgets, paying rent/bills on time, staying connected to primary & behavioral health care, and enrolling in job training or employment programs, A significant number of tenants are age 55+ with focus on “aging in place.” At Fellowship Place, we believe that treatment outcomes for the mentally ill improve when services are easy to navigate and give individuals a voice in charting their own path to recovery. We believe that offering a wide array of structured and unstructured activities, peer support, and counseling in one place at flexible hours is cost effective and the best way to make certain our client population realizes its full potential for a full and productive life in the broader community. Without Fellowship Place, there would be many more mentally ill individuals in our community living in isolation, without a safe gathering place for socialization and access to a broad array of support services.