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For many people with mental illnesses, their job helps to keep them stable. It creates routine and order and provides income. Without job skills, members cannot work. And without work, their self-esteem falls, their sense of security diminishes, and many become depressed. Green Door is recognized nationally as one of the most successful job training…

Green Door has a distinguished record of providing affordable housing for people with severe mental illness. For 25 years, we have helped members in all phases of their recovery to secure stable, pleasant, affordable housing. We have developed an extensive and constantly expanding housing program that meets the quality and economic needs of our members….

Day Activities and Employment Green Door is the only program in the District of Columbia that utilizes the Clubhouse model to get people with mental illness back to work and living in the community. Working from the individual’s strengths, the Clubhouse provides members with the opportunity to learn employable skills through meaningful work and to…

Meet Earnestine “It makes me feel proud to sit here and say that I got help.” When Earnestine was 9 or 10 years old, she started hearing voices. Her mother, not understanding that her daughter was showing signs of, what was later diagnosed as, schizo-affective disorder (a combination of schizophrenia and bipolar) locked her in a…

Mental Health Clinical Services Green Door is a certified Core Service Agency (CSA) under the District of Columbia’s Department of Mental Health and provides a variety of mental health services for our members. The term “Core Service Agency” means that we are responsible for helping our members get all their basic (or core) needs met….

On July 13, 2015 Washington Post writer, Terrence McCoy, wrote the first of two stories about Alfred Postell. Postell was a Harvard Law student that would eventually become schizophrenic and ultimately homeless. “That few remember what happened to Postell perhaps betrays the illness that seized him. Schizophrenia creeps. Some people, especially those as accomplished as Postell,…