User:RecoveryMN/Vail Place

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Vail Place is an independently operated non profit organization and provider of community-based recovery services for individuals with severe and persistent mental illness such as major depression, bipolar, and schizophrenia, located in Hopkins and Minneapolis, Minnesota.

History
Opened in 1981, Vail Place is named after Dr. David Vail, a Harvard trained psychiatrist and former Medical Director of Minnesota's Department of Public Welfare (Department of Human Services) until 1971. By the early 1980’s, most Minnesota residents suffering from mental illness had been discharged from institutions in a process referred to as deinstitutionalization. Vail Place was founded to meet the need for community services resulting from this process.

Description
Vail Place is governed by a volunteer board of directors comprised of community professionals with legal, financial, administrative, psychological, and communications expertise.

The organizations is based on a clubhouse model of psychosocial rehabilitation. These internationally replicated psychosocial rehabilitation programs offer dignified, consumer-centered services that focus on reintegration into the community.

Providing housing, employment, and social support services are the primary functions of the organization.