Clubhouse Ghana, a non-profit Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), intends to establish a community-oriented rehabilitation center to help revamp and re-integrate mental healthcare delivery into the fabric of society.
The center, when completed next year, will open its doors to former patients / clients; and provide them with skills in carpentry, farming, cooking, bartending, masonry, plumbing, as well as other trades (if necessary); in order for them to be self-sufficient when they recover from a mental condition in any local psychiatric hospital.
Through these activities, the recovering individuals will gain an inner sense of self-pride, resilience and tenacity to function and also have the capacity to face life’s challenges devoid of family and community neglect due to the stigma attached to mental health and the shrouded influence in its wake!
Clubhouse Ghana is admirably the First-Ever Clubhouse-Franchised Rehabilitation Center to be established in the entire West-African region. There are only two other Clubhouse-Franchised Rehabilitation Centers in Uganda and South Africa. Hence, Ghana will hold the mantle as the first trailblazing country to be granted funding, US resources and World Federation of Mental Health support from Clubhouse International in Manhattan, New York etc. to establish a Center that will operate primarily with the NGO’s business model as a whole.