Charles Webster Potter Place Clubhouse is one of over 3 dozen Clubhouses in Massachusetts, over 370 in the world, in over 32 countries. Accredited by Clubhouse International, we follow the model originally started by Fountain House in New York City.
Familiarly known as Potter Place Clubhouse, we have been supporting Waltham and surrounding communities since 1988.
“A Clubhouse is a community-based service dedicated to supporting and empowering people living with mental illness, known as Clubhouse members. Based on the Clubhouse Model of psychosocial rehabilitation, each Clubhouse offers a collaborative, restorative environment where Clubhouse members can recover by gaining access to opportunities for employment, socialization, education, skill development, housing and improved wellness.
Organized around the belief that every individual has something valuable to contribute to society, Clubhouses effectively help people build self- confidence and end the social and economic isolation so often associated with mental illness.” -Clubhouse International
Now an international movement, we offer “people living with mental illness opportunities for friendship, employment, housing, education, and access to medical and psychiatric services in a single caring and safe environment – this social and economic inclusion reverses the alarming trends of higher suicide, hospitalization and incarceration rates associated with mental illness.” -Clubhouse International