Health Matters
Adults marginalized by poverty and disability are an under-served and often overlooked population. Wellness and Recovery programming is one of the ways the Friendship Center helps to provide services, advocacy, and relationships. The Friendship Center provides a clothes closet, bi-annual eye care clinics, annual flu-shot clinics, a weekly yoga class, a movement class, and weekly peer-led recovery groups. The Friendship Center also partners with the Georgia State School of Nursing through which we have regular nursing students at our program to monitor vital signs, health trends, and educate participants on various health risks.
The Friendship Center engages several volunteer Certified Peer Specialists (CPS). A CPS is a person who has a diagnosis of a mental illness, and has received specialized training through the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities to provide peer support and to promote self-determination, personal responsibility, and empowerment inherent in self-directed recovery.
Our wellness and recovery programming operates in partnerships with other agencies such as the Grady Behavioral Health System, Prevent Blindness Georgia, the Georgia Mental Health Consumer Network, and local chapters of the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
