Learn more about Fountain House and our innovative community based treatment approach in these books:
Fountain House: Creating Community in Mental Health Practice – Written by Fountain House President Kenneth J. Dudek, Director of the Fountain House Institute Alan Doyle and Julius Lanoil and published by Columbia University Press in 2013. Since 1948, the Fountain House working community has worked to address the isolation and social stigmatization faced by people with mental illness. Our book describes in detail our evidence-based, cost-effective, and replicable model, which produces substantive outcomes in employment, schooling, housing, and general wellness. Available through Columbia University Press, you can now purchase Fountain House: Creating Community in Mental Health Practice for 30% OFF using code FOUDOY! BUY NOW.
We Are Not Alone: Fountain House and the Development of Clubhouse Culture – Written by Stephen Anderson and published in 1998, chronicles the major events of the Fountain House story.
Fountain House: Portraits of Lives Reclaimed from Mental Illness – Written by Mary Flannery and Mark Glickman and published in 1996, highlights the personal challenges faced by people with severe mental illness and the successful models they've discovered for living with their illness.
Articles
The Work of the Unit (pdf)
By Bill Waters
What if Nobody Wants to Make Lunch (pdf)
By Mark Glickman
Patienthood to Personhood (pdf)
By Jacqueline Peckoff
Why We Do What We Do (pdf)
By Edward L. Deci
Who Decides What to do, And When? (pdf)
By Kevin Bradley
Clubhouse Relationships Need Work! (pdf)
By Robby Vorspan
The Role of Staff at Fountain House (pdf)
By Stephen Anderson
Member Role/Staff Role: Another look (pdf)
By Robby Vorspan
Ten Excuses Not to do Transitional Employment and Eleven Reasons Why (pdf)
By Margaret Beard
Supported Employment in Clubhouse (pdf)
By Mark Maragnano
Transitional Employment: The Most Supported of Supported Employments (pdf)
By Ralph Bilby
Supporting Member Education (doc)
By Alan Doyle
What Makes a Great Unit (pdf)
By Ruth Kaufman
From Philosophy to Practice (pdf)
By Jarl Bengt
Stages in Realizing the International Diffusion of a Single Way of Working: The Clubhouse Model (pdf)
By Rudyard n. Propst
The Clubhouse Journey to Recovery (doc)
By Mark Glickman
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