Clubhouse Project

IPM funded the production of Poetry as a Tool for Recovery: An Easy-to-Use Guide in Eight Sessions which follows a template based on the "Clubhouse Model" for a peer training manual utilizing poetry to enhance information and skills for wellness and recovery. Themes in the guidebook include: listening, compassion and empathy, gratitude, risk-taking, communication, forgiveness, transformation and joy.

IPM's funding supported:

• the creation of the peer training manual Poetry as a Tool for Recovery: An Easy-to-Use Guide in Eight Sessions.

• a print version of the facilitator’s guidebook to the 220 plus Clubhouses in the United States and Canada.

• a PDF version of the guidebook available upon request to other organizations that are interested.

• providing facilitator Lisa DeVuono with support to act as consultant to the Clubhouses and others who express interest in following through.

Poetry as a Tool for Recovery inspired the development of the comprehensive manual for the currently funded program, Poetry as a Tool for Wellness.