Welcome to Connections Place Clubhouse

Who We Are

Connections Place is a non-profit membership-based community that helps people with mental illness feel connected and move towards wellness. We offer a safe and welcoming space, and opportunities to form collegial relationships through collaboration, meaningful work, and a sense of belonging.

We work to deconstruct mental health stigma and systems by building inclusivity, acceptance, and intentionality into the Clubhouse operation and through community partnerships between organizations.

What is a Clubhouse?

A Clubhouse is an internationally recognized, evidence-based, sustainable program that takes the form of an attractive community centre for people with mental illness to find peer support, achieve self-reliance and use their skills and talents to get their lives back on track.

There are over 370 independently operated Clubhouses worldwide—across 33 countries—serving over 100,000 members annually, successfully providing meaningful work and relationships, education, and a sense of belonging. They collaborate with people and organizations in the broader community to educate and eliminate the stigma around mental illness, while championing mental wellness.

Documented research on existing Clubhouses indicates members and their communities benefit from higher employment rates, decreased hospitalization, reduced incarceration, improved well-being, and substantially lowered costs to social service departments.