Hope Fort Bend Clubhouse
About Hope Fort Bend Clubhouse
Hope Fort Bend Clubhouse gives adults living with mental health challenges a place where the day is built around real work, shared responsibility, and actual connection. Members and staff work side by side on employment, education, wellness, and community activities, with support that can also include transportation, housing, and crisis intervention. For donors, the appeal is simple: this is a place where people are not just referred out, they are welcomed in and supported over time. The membership is voluntary and has no time limit, which gives people room to stay connected as long as they need to.
What sets Hope Fort Bend Clubhouse apart is the clubhouse model itself, members and staff doing the work together in a work-ordered day instead of treating support like a one-way service. The program also keeps membership voluntary and without time limits, while connecting people to practical help like employment, education, wellness, housing, and transportation.
Programs
The concrete work this nonprofit runs. Each program may later become a fundable project.
Work-Ordered Day Program
Members and staff work side by side in food services, clerical work, technology, wellness, maintenance, transportation, and clubhouse operations.
Employment services
Transitional employment, supportive employment, and independent employment support, including job development, resume support, employer partnerships, and ongoing coordination with employers.
Education & skill-building
GED support, financial literacy, computer training, tutoring, life skills, workforce readiness, culinary skills, horticulture, office and computer skills, wellness activities, peer specialist training, and job skills training.
Wellness services
Peer support, fitness, nutrition, recreation, breakfast and lunch preparation, and gardening or horticulture activities.
Community engagement
Advocacy, volunteerism, social events, outreach calls and visits, house and team meetings, social media and communication, advocacy and awareness events, and trips.
Housing support
Support for safe, decent, and affordable housing, including rapid rehousing for members who are homeless and permanent housing for those who can live independently.
Transportation support
Transportation to and from the Clubhouse for members within designated service areas.
Crisis intervention support
Access to crisis intervention services and other support when needed.
About this work
In their own words — what they do, who it reaches, and what your dollars actually fund.
Mission
Hope Fort Bend Clubhouse is dedicated to growing a community of achievers living with a mental health condition who are empowered to thrive through education, productive work, and meaningful relationships with access to effective transportation and safe housing.
Who they serve
Adults 18+ living with mental health challenges, including depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, PTSD, schizophrenia, and other mental health conditions.
Their impact
- 97% of surveyed members said being part of the clubhouse has been of value for them.
- 97% of surveyed members said being at the clubhouse has been a support for them.
- 25% of surveyed members said they had been in the hospital in the last year for mental health reasons.
- 5% of surveyed members said they had been in jail in the last year.
- 16% of surveyed members said they were employed.
Need help?
How someone in need can access Hope Fort Bend Clubhouse’s services.
New members start by visiting the Clubhouse and then trying a short 2-hour plug-in visit alongside members and staff. Membership is free, there are no contracts or time limits, and staff help people join if it feels like a good fit.
Stories
The people behind the work.
In their words
The Clubhouse to me means a place where people can go to who have mental illness to get together and share their different experiences with each other.
My name is Kevin, I visited the Clubhouse seeking volunteering experience and improvement of my social skills.
The Clubhouse is a place that saved me while I was sick. It's a place to come and meet people and learn about life.
The Clubhouse means a place where I am respected, a place where I make lifelong friends and it definitely gives me meaningful work to do.
It means so much to me. Everyone is supportive when you need help, when you need an ear and shoulder, when you need direction to resources, and they treat you like family.
Recognition & press
Awards & recognition
- Accredited by Clubhouse International
Partners & funders
In the news
Articles featuring Hope Fort Bend Clubhouse from the Love What You Fund newsroom.