Clubhouse members are working toward realizing their full potential, and now that includes broadcasting to a wider world
Donald Berman UP (Urban Pardes) House is a clubhouse that helps adults living with a mental illness achieve greater self-determination, self-esteem and self-worth. The Clubhouse is based on the International Center for Clubhouse Development model, founded in New York in 1948. There are currently 350 accredited clubhouses world-wide and 20 in Canada (including the Phoenix Centre Clubhouse in Nanaimo on Vancouver Island).
ICCD Clubhouses offer people with mental illness opportunities to reach their full potential; the UP House in Montreal helps people to reintegrate themselves back into society and the job market after their lives have been interrupted by mental illness.
Now the members of UP House have launched an ambitious new project—an online radio station called Radio-UP.
We speak with Marty Zidulka and Fenton Benjamin.
