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Housing, Employment, Social and Autonomy<br />

Although a Fairweather Lodge is understood to be a package of highly-integrated services, we<br />

have broken the assessment into four domains for the purpose of evaluation. Surveys of the<br />

needs/wants/desires of people with serious mental illness provide three obvious domains --<br />

housing, employment, and a social life. To this we add the uniquely Fairweather perspective of<br />

group autonomy. A successful Fairweather Lodge should score well across all four domains.<br />

Housing<br />

Principle I. The lodge must provide a safe, healthy and caring environment, which reinforces<br />

the recovery process.<br />

Practice A. Lodges should be located in a safe and accepting neighborhood.<br />

Practice B. Lodges should be attentive to exercise and nutrition.<br />

Practice C. Lodges should control the use of alcohol and street drugs<br />

Proposed Outcome Measures:<br />

1. Number of undesirable interactions (e.g., getting mugged, name-calling) in the<br />

neighborhood per participant-year, (or versus desirable interactions).<br />

2. Percentage of participants eating healthy.<br />

3. Percentage of participants exercising regularly.<br />

4. Percentage of participants using drugs or alcohol.<br />

OR<br />

4.a Undesirable incidents related to drugs or alcohol.<br />

Principle II. The Lodge must be part of the plan for managing symptoms and promoting good<br />

mental health.<br />

Practice D. Good quality psychiatric care (implying a doctor-patient partnership) should<br />

be available.<br />

Proposed Outcome Measure #5:<br />

Average length of wait for non-routine psych visit.<br />

Practice E. Lodges should have a standard mechanism for ensuring medication<br />

compliance (This mechanism should be adjustable in response to variance in earned<br />

autonomy.)<br />

Proposed Outcome Measure #6:<br />

Percentage of medications taken as prescribed.<br />

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