The Fairweather Lodge Program is a psychosocial rehabilitation model in which residents live together and run or participate in a business that provides them with employment.
The Lodge setting is shared, independent housing and can be offered either short-term or long-term, depending on the needs and desires of the individual.
Lodge members are active, productive men and women who share the responsibilities of household management and support each other in recovery.
By residing together, each member's potential standard of living can be greatly improved through companionship, shared expenses and mutual peer support.
To provide employment, a Lodge may run a small business chosen by member consensus and jointly planned.
Residents with psychiatric disabilities can increase their community success and raise their social status through employment, through accumulating wealth and through direct consumerism.
The outcome measures gauge adherence to the Faiweather principles and are designed to track meaningful quality of life indicators, such as safety and desirability of housing, access to quality mental health services, employment and earnings, healthy lifestyle and community belonging and personal autonomy.