Greenfield-Behavioral health and well-being resources in the region were exhibited last week as part of the 23rd mental and well-being health fair at Energy Park.
The annual event is a production of Green River House and Quabbin House, two peers support programs of the Club-House model of the CLINICAL HELLness & Support Options (CSO) health organization. The free event offered live music, sellers stands, a catering truck, games and activities.
“Our mental health and well-being fair was successful due to the membership we received from other regional suppliers,” said Karin Jeffers, president and chief executive officer of the CSO, in a statement. “The event is designed, planned and executed by club members with lived experience that can share personal experiences to help clarify our community response in the future. And our community partners and our supplier colleagues have adopted it impatiently, willingly presenting their own services and the resources they have to anyone could benefit. ”
The mental health and well-being fair started in 2002 in the parking lot of our place, which was a day program on Wells Street in Greenfield. Since then, the CSO has developed the annual event under the auspices of its two clubhouse programs – the Green River House in Greenfield and the Quabbin house in Orange.
“The idea is that a clubhouse community can meet to help each other to succeed in leading a healthy and productive life,” said CSO club director Kim Thibault-Britt in a statement. “Our membership, as well as our staff, direct a day ordered in clubs and we focus on employment and education in our local communities. We build a consensus and we carry out team projects. And for 22 years, the mental health and well-being fair was an exemplary product of what we can achieve together. ”