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Point After Club's Director
Tom Coppinger
Assistant Director
Charlotte Hamawi
Employment Coordinator
Gerry Langan
Housing Coordinator
Kerry Caraccio
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Julie Howard
Unit Leader of Campbell Center
John Davis
Unit Coordinator
Dan Rooney
Unit Leader of Food Service
Elvin Rentas
Food Service Coordinator
Karen Doyle
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What is the Point After Club?
The Point After Club is a community support clubhouse whose foundation is the International Standards of the clubhouse model of rehabilitation for adults with psychiatric disabilities. The program is funded by the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health and offers a safe place in which adults with Mental Illness are offered opportunities to develop or regain vocational and social skills:
- The Point After Club guaranties the following four rights of membership:
- The right to a place to come.
- The right to meaningful work.
- The right to meaningful relationship.
- The right to a place to return.
- The Point After Club emphasizes personhood-not patient hood; wellness-not illness.
- The Point After Club believes that work is central to the rehabilitation process and that having a mental illness does not mean that an individual is unable to work.
- Through its daily programming, the Point After Club provides work training and job support to help its members enter or re-enter competitive employment.
- "Point After Club" refers to a point after hospitalization-the point at which recover and rehabilitation begin.
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What Does the Point After Club Offer Its members?
- Opportunities to be gainfully employed, to enjoy leisure time and social activities, and to get educational and housing support as needed.
- A three-tier employment track--from transitional employment (TE) to supported employment to independent employment.
- Opportunities to run the clubhouse daily, working alongside staff in such areas as clerical, housing, administration, food service, maintenance, etc. The clubhouse needs the active involvement of its members in order to operate each day.
- Open 75 hours each week, 365 days per year.
- A bi-lingual, bi-cultural environment that recognizes the unique demography of the City of Lawrence and its neighboring communities.
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Employment Statistics
- In the past year:
- 94 club members were employed in local businesses and worked a total of 44,485 hours.
- These workers earned a combined total of $362,552.
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Goals of The Point After Club
- To raise enough money to get a "Home of Our Own". Right now we are renting space at the Masonic Temple in Lawrence. We have outgrown this facility and looking to buy/renovate a building that will suit our needs.
- To continue to improve and expand job opportunities for all members.
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How To Join
- Membership is open to adults who live in the local area who have a primary diagnosis and documented history of psychiatric illness.
- Call 978-681-7753 to schedule a tour of the clubhouse and to meet with the Program Director.
- There are no service fees for members. Members pay a nominal amount for meals and trips.
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Testimony
"Not only did the club help me return to competitive employment. They helped me achieve a personal goal of getting my first apartment on my own." James Jewell
"Support from the Point After Club helps me cope with everyday life." Geriemias Heredia
"Knowing that I'm not alone has helped me overcome my fears. I'm grateful that the club accepts me for who I am." Vinnie DeMarco
"The Point After Club has been my stepping stone on my way to independence." Steve Kanan
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