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12/1/25  12:14 pm
Commenter: Anonymous

Rates and admin burden
 

The Clubhouse model offers a significantly lower reimbursement rate than current PSR services. Furthermore, it requires significant investment from the CSB - staff have to be trained (and trained again when staff leave and new ones are hires), program must be accredited, a medical director has to be identified as part of the model at a time where psychiatric availability is already extremely limited. In addition to all that, there is no easy way to participate in this long-term training while the same staff still have to tend to current clients. It would be great to know about some viable alternatives to this model - what else was considered and why was it not chosen? If not Clubhouse or PSR, are there other services that can be considered as an alternative?

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