The culinary area -
A day of work begins with a morning meeting, where one member and one staff member volunteer to cook a main course out of the daily menu. Once a week there's a meeting which aims to examine the unit systematically and to further improve it. Once a month there's a meeting for the purpose of constructing a monthly menu.
The unit's members take care of serving a daily hot and nourishing meal. This includes cooking, setting the tables and serving the food. The meals' cost is subsidized by the Clubhouse and the members pay a symbolic price of 5 ₪ per meal (A price which was decided among the unit members).
The unit's members are also in charge of the cafeteria management, monthly menu creation, ordering groceries from vendors, purchasing groceries, management of the food warehouse and stock.
In addition, the unit prepares meals and refreshments on holidays, ceremonies, events, open door days, important meetings, birthdays and such. The unit engages in making the kitchen, warehouse and cafeteria accessible to everyone, in order to enable the members the freedom and possibility to diversify or surprise the others when they want to.
The work in the culinary unit is done 'at eye level', meaning the Clubhouse members and staff members work together as a team with no hierarchy. Creativity is always encouraged and sitting together around the table creates opportunity for human interaction. The unit's atmosphere is good and delightful, and the members learn how to manage with order and organization, how to cook and bake and also how to prepare meals by themselves at their own homes.
The social area -
The unit is also responsible for improving the Clubhouse's sociability among the community by arranging birthday parties with greetings and a cake, conducting and planning events on the different holidays, inviting the community's members, preparing refreshments, and unifying the community's members while joining them in the event's preparations.
Accessibility unit
This unit is responsible for the administrative operation of the Clubhouse and development of cooperation with external entities, in order to promote the community.
Each morning begins with a meeting in which our team and members volunteer for the assignments that are to be done, while working together.
The assignments are selected according to the community's needs and there's always a chance to offer a new task.
Among others, the administrative tasks of the unit include- attendance check, statistical analysis, reception , telephone communication with the members, reports of the Clubhouse's incomes and expenses, tracking and renewing of members' rehabilitation baskets, production of status reports for funding or supervising entities, translation of articled about the worldwide Clubhouse model, updating the community's members about the different activities of the Clubhouse, registration, edition and publication of meeting protocols, management of the website and e-mails, newspaper and newsletter, communications with the Ministry of Health and the National Insurance Institute.
The tasks regarding cooperation include working on development and research of the community's needs (by passing questionnaires), and developing connections and cooperation with relevant organizations and institutes. This also includes meetings of thought and plans, issuing of marketing materials, etc...
Additional information about the Clubhouse's cooperation with external entities can be found in this article.
Among other tasks, there's significant work in the field of information and presentation of the Clubhouse, which includes presentations production, writing of personal stories, composition of marketing files and presentations in front of different units. In addition the unit is organizing an important project which you can read more about in here.
Last but not least, the unit is responsible for leisure activities in the community, such as classes of art, music, photography, graphics, English lessons, and so on, and also organization of many external activities such as concerts, basketball games, ecology workshops and so on.
Culinary unit
