Client Assistance & Supports

Client Assistance and Supports

Bridges Clubhouse- MHASC offers a Clubhouse program in partnership with the Lexington Mental Health Center. Bridges offers an array of psychological, social and vocational programs, housing assistance, and case management services in a family oriented atmosphere to assist recovery. The Clubhouse is run through a fountain house model where everyone is involved in a unit. There are four units at the clubhouse, the kitchen unit which purchases, prepares, and cleans up for lunch everyday. The snack bar unit, which runs the snack bar program, also purchasing, selling, overseeing inventory, keeping records. The maintenance unit which cleans, maintains, and oversees the property, and the clerical unit which does all the billing, maintaining, and Medicaid for every client. These units are used to build skills that the recovering mental health client needs in order to achieve independence and re-enter the work force. For more information on Bridges please contact Jean Ann Lambert at bridgesclubhouse@yahoo.com.

Cemetery Preservation - Consumers searching records of the South Carolina Department of Mental Health to locate names of every individual buried at the State Hospital cemeteries since its beginning up to 1986. Consumers are participating on the Committee to Restore and Preserve Historic Cemeteries and have worked to restore the Pisgah Cemetery.For more information please contact Anita Baker at abaker@mha-sc.org.

Housing -At least 12,000 low-income South Carolinians diagnosed as mentally ill are in need of housing in South Carolina. To meet this need, MHASC created Turnkey Housing Corp., an arm of the organization that develops housing, especially in rural areas. The housing staff works with the local community to design housing that best fits the needs of consumers and may use federal, state and private funding sources for construction. MHASC and its affiliates are the single largest non-profit sponsoring housing for the psychiatrically disabled in South Carolina. For more information please contact Joy Jay at jjay@mha-sc.org.