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Gainesville Opportunity Center

Meridian is currently involved with a Grassroots Community Project to help start an ICCD Clubhouse in the Gainesville area, called the Gainesville Opportunity Center (GOC).

An ICCD (International Center for Clubhouse Development) Clubhouse is a place where people who have had mental illness come to rebuild their lives. The participants are called members, not patients and the focus is on their strengths not their illness. Work in the clubhouse, whether it is clerical, data input, meal preparation or reaching out to their fellow members, provides the core healing process. Every opportunity provided is the result of the efforts of the members and small staff, who work side by side, in a unique partnership. One of the most important steps members take toward greater independence is transitional employment, where they work in the community at real jobs. Members also receive help in securing housing, advancing their education obtaining good psychiatric and medical care and maintaining government benefits. Membership is for life so members have all the time they need to secure their new life in the community.

The GOC is now an official not for profit organisation and is currently seeking a facility and volunteers.

For more information on the Gainesville Opportunity Center, please visit www.goclubhouse.org or call call Mike Demers at 352-224-5523.