Serve, Plant, Build, Inspire #9 Emerging Adults w Mental Illness

Exploring Youth Clubhouses, drop-in centers for youth in recovery from/at risk for substance use disorders, focusing on access, partnerships, & peer support.

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Welcome to Health Hats, learning on the journey toward best health. I am Danny van Leeuwen, a two-legged, old, cisgender, white man with privilege, living in a food oasis, who can afford many hats and knows a little about a lot of healthcare and a lot about very little. Most people wear hats one at a time, but I wear them all at once.  I'm the Rosetta Stone of Healthcare. We will listen and learn about what it takes to adjust to life's realities in the awesome circus of healthcare.  Let's make some sense of all this.

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Contents
Proem.. 1

Podcast intro 02:45. 2

Health is fragile 04:08. 2

Youth Clubhouses, safe places 07:27. 3

Access to the Clubhouse 10:23. 4

Community partnership and collaboration 13:22. 4

Youth program engagement and leadership 17:03. 5

A word from our sponsor, Abridge 19:03. 6

Coping tools in your toolbox 19:48. 6

Continual learning. 6

Hopeful, hopeless 25:03. 7

Policy change, harm reduction 28:23. 7

OASAS: Office of Addiction Supports and Services 31:01. 8

Clubhouse Radio 31:45. 8

Narcan and Harm reduction 34:36. 9

Reflection 38:16. 10

Tribute to Casey Quinlan 39:53. 10

Tribute to Michael Funk 43:46. 11

Podcast Outro 44:33. 11
Episode
Proem

Figure 1: DALL.E image of Sculpture of community-based research in style of Yoshitoshi Kanemaki

I gravitate toward, am attracted to, community-based programs that build partnerships with their participants. The programs serve well, plant seeds, build capacity, and inspire copying. Medical, professional, or larger companies have a more challenging time serving, planting, building, and inspiring. Perhaps it’s a function of community-based and partnerships with lived-experience experts. I thank Dorothy Cucinelli, last episode’s guest, for introducing Paul Taylor and the Youth Clubhouses at the Mental Health Association of Columbia Greene Counties.

Youth Clubhouses are drop-in centers for youth and young adults in recovery from or at risk of developing a substance use disorder. These programs provide recovery supports – including peer support – as well as skill-building and community engagement opportunities, educational and vocational support, recreational and prosocial activities, family engagement activities, and sessions on health and wellness. Youth and Young Adults | Office of Addiction Services and Supports (ny.gov)

Youth Clubhouses are programs of NY State OASAS.

The New York State Office of Addiction Services and Supports (OASAS) oversees one of the nation’s largest Substance Use Disorder systems of care. Approximately 1,700 prevention, treatment, and recovery programs serve over 680,000 individuals per year. About Us | Office of Addiction Services and Supports (ny.gov)

Kai Hellman invited Paul Taylor and Phoebs Potter to join us. We spoke about youth access to the Clubhouse, Clubhouse partnerships in their communities, youth engagement and leadership, peer support, and harm reduction.

We will end the episode with two tributes, one of Mighty Casey Quinlan who died a couple of weeks ago and to my son, Mike Funk who would have been 47 on May 17th.
Podcast intro 02:45
Welcome to Health Hats, the Podcast. I'm Danny van Leeuwen, a two-legged cisgender old white man of privilege who knows a little bit about a lot of healthcare and a lot about very little. We will listen and learn about what it takes to adjust to life's realities in the awesome circus of healthcare. Let's make some sense of all of this. Like what you’re reading, hearing,