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the price is right shoppe
629 N. 36th Street
Milwaukee, WI 53208
Donations:
414-933-7279

In January of 2004, Our Space began operating The Price Is Right Shoppe, which had formerly been operated by Milwaukee County. The Price Is Right Shoppe is a vital, community resource that offers free clothing, household goods, and other necessities to impoverished individuals and families referred by over 300 community agencies. All items in the Shoppe are donated. In 2004, The Price Is Right Shoppe has served over 2700 individuals and families.

With the addition of The Price Is Right Shoppe, Our Space has been able to expand its Prevocational Retail Training Program. Individuals now work at the Our Space Blue Dove Gift Shop and then transfer to The Price Is Right prior to being assisted in obtaining outside employment. This wider range of experience assists members in obtaining full-time, meaningful employment.

The Price Is Right is staffed by a full-time Occupational Therapist who coordinates the service delivery, donations, consumer training, students and volunteers, and also handles the multitude of daily issues.
blue dove gift shop
9455 Watertown Plank Road
Wauwatosa, WI 53226
Telephone:
414-257-7009

The Blue Dove Gift Shop is located on Main Street within the Milwaukee County Mental Health Complex, serving as a paid pre-vocational retail training program through the selling of member crafts, snacks & resale goods.

Our Space member employees learn:

job readiness skills - social & coping skills, personal appearance, time management training

retail skills - cash register usage, inventory, customer service skills

Members are assisted with job position placement, interviewing and resume skills.

Member crafts are sold on a 50% commission basis which provides an incentive and promotes self esteem.
The State of Wisconsin in its 1997 Blue Ribbon Commission Report on Mental Health defines a recovery-oriented system of service delivery as one that “must include services that are focused on psychiatric rehabilitation.” Recovery-oriented psychiatric services increase role performance in the areas of living, learning and working, and are critical to the eventual independence of individuals diagnosed with mental illness.” The Report discusses the long history of mental health consumers being required or pressured to perform humiliating, demeaning work which was at best low-paying. The Report emphasizes that consumers must to be offered activities which further one’s education, skills and/or hobbies and which are defined by the consumer as meaningful and inclusive.

In the 1999 landmark document, Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General, former Surgeon General, David Satcher, cites the need for comprehensive day treatment services for mentally ill adults which will assist them in keeping up with technologies in the 21st century as well as offer them pre-vocational services.

The National Council on Disability, an independent federal panel commissioned to investigate the state of mental health services in this country, issued a report in September 2002 which concluded that the mental health system in the United States is in crisis because it emphasizes medicating people rather than fostering ways to help individuals with mental illness lead independent lives.