The B’More Study entitled “Analysis of the Association of Clubhouse Membership with Overall Costs of Care for Mental Health Treatment” examined whether frequency of attendance at the B’More Clubhouse was associated with lower mental health care costs in the Medicaid database, and whether members in the B’More Clubhouse (n = 30) would have lower mental health care costs compared with a set of matched controls from the same claims database (n = 150). The article is attached in the Supplementary Materials section that you can find here.

 

Additionally, an article was published in Crain’s New York Business entitled “Nonprofit's 'clubhouse' model effectively treats mental illness, study says.” This article summarizes the B’more study and the implications this study has on mental health as a whole. The article is also attached in the Supplementary Materials section that you can find here.