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Principle VI. Successful Lodges resemble a healthy family.
Practice K. Participants should share at least one meal a day.
Practice L. Participants should share at least one social/recreational event a week.
Proposed Outcome Measures 10 & 11:
Number of meals per week shared by at least 75% of members.
Number of social/recreational event per month shared by at least 75% of members
Autonomy
Principle VII. In order to progress, people with psychiatric disabilities need autonomy
commensurate with their behavioral performance, with the ultimate goal of full autonomy.
Similarly, the Lodge needs autonomy commensurate with its behavioral performance, with total
autonomy being the ultimate goal. (Peer support is ultimately more powerful than assistance
from paid service providers.)
Practice M. The lodge participants, through some form of collective decision-making,
should be responsible (to the extent that the skills are present) for all aspects of Lodge
management including but not limited to finance, maintenance, meal planning and
preparation, social life, transportation, rules related to interaction between members and
symptom management including the taking of medications. Professionals serve as
advisors to the Lodge, never managers.
Proposed Outcome Measure #12:
Average # of hours/week paid service providers are present in the Lodge.
Practice N. If the skills required for certain tasks are not available within the
membership, the advisors should provide these skills temporarily. Training should be
provided so as to help one or more participants to acquire these skills and advance
individual and group autonomy.
Practice O. Lodges typically need assistance and feedback on how they are doing; this
need should decrease over time, but may never disappear. It is advisable, especially
during the training phase, to have a special communication system which facilitates this
assistance and feedback while simultaneously promoting autonomous group decisionmaking.
Principle VIII. Lodges must not be dependent on resources from any single entity.
Practice P: Lodges and Lodge Programs require strong leadership, committed to all 8
principles and focused on long-term success.
Proposed Outcome Measures 13 & 14:
Number of “engaged” community partners providing on-going resources.
Largest single source of revenue as a percentage of total revenue.
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