The Four Guaranteed Rights of Membership

  1. The Right to a Place to Come

  2. The Right to Meaningful Relationships

  3. The Right to Meaningful Work

  4. The Right to a Place to Return

 

  • It's voluntary and it's easy and free to become a clubhouse member of Gainesville Opportunity Center.

  • To learn more about what it means to be a member, click on the Membership Informational Flyer shown at bottom of page, or phone Mike Demers at 224-5523.
  • MEETING TIMES.  GOC member meet and work at the clubhouse every Monday, Wednesday, Friday from 9:00 am to 4:00 in our new space.   Lunch break is from noon to 1:00. Hurricane Season. During a possible tropical storm or hurricane, click here to check to see if we are meeting.  We will meet according to the advisories of the Alachua County School Board (if schools are closed, then GOC will be closed).

  • WANT MORE INFO? Telephone Mike Demers at 224-5523 for up-to-date details about meetings and other GOC activities.

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G.O.C. is near bus stop on Bus Route # 24.

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Free Medical and Dental Care in Alachua County

Mobile Outreach Clinic (a big bus) each Monday night (6:00 – 9:00 pm) at the Tower Library.
Website: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=154209322185
Free medical services. No insurance needed. Ooperated by University of Florida physicians

4th Avenue Family Medical free clinic for people without insurance who will need followups (last I heard, they had openings for new patients)
Website: http://www.med.ufl.edu/patients/ufclinics/medical_group.shtml
625 SW 4th Avenue, Gainesville.
Phone (352) 392-6771
Hours: 8:00-5:00 Monday - Friday

UF Shands Eastside Community Practice, free for people without medical without insurance who will need followups (may be closed to new patients now—check).
Website: http://www.med.ufl.edu/patients/ufclinics/eastside.shtml
410 NE Waldo Road, Gainesville
Phone (352) 265–7020
Hours: 8:00-5:00 Monday - Friday

Helping Hands Clinic for free medical and psychiatric care limited to homeless without insurance. 
Website: http://hhcg.org/
Location in Epworth Hall at
First United Methodist Church
419 NE 1st Street, Gainesville
Phone (352) 372-8523

This clinic only takes homeless clients without any insurance. No Medicaid no Medicare.
Psychiatric Services (free clinic and meds) 2nd and 4th Mondays and 1st and 3rd Thursdays of the month
Medical Services for men and women on all Mondays from 5:00 - 7:00 PM
Women's Health Clinic for women exclusively in on Thursday afternoons 3:00 - 7:00 PM (also showers and meals that day for women only). 
Prescription services

The Equal Access Clinic
Website: http://equalaccess.med.ufl.edu/
Phone (352) 327-8005
Free healthcare and other services for the medically underserved in the Gainesville community. Run by University of Florida students from the Colleges of Medicine, Dentistry, and Public Health.
Medical -- Thursday nights at Family Practice Medical Group, 625 SW 4th Avenue, Gainesville. Walk-ins only. Starts at 6:00pm and sees about 15 patients on a first come first serve basis.  The line starts forming very early (4:00 pm).
Medical -- Tuesday nights at Gainesville Community Ministry, 238 SW 4th Avenue, Gainesville. Appointment patients and walk-ins. Starts at 5:30 pm and sees about 5-8 patients.
Women only -- Thursday Nights at 625 SW 4th Avenue, Gainesville. Appointments for Women’s clinic can be made in person at Thursday night medical clinic (above) every Thursday night.  Women’s clinic is held on the first Thursday of every month starting at 5:30 pm and sees 4 patients.

Acorn Clinic
Website: http://www.acornclinic.org/
The Alachua County Organization for Rural Needs ("ACORN")
23320 North State Road 235
Brooker, FL 32622
Low income clinic and f
amily health care
Medical clinic: (352) 485-1133
Dental clinic: (352) 485-2772

Dental shuttle bus from Gainesville
Only procedures like extractions, they don’t do routine cleanings.
Appointments are two steps.
Step 1: Monday night at the Helping Hands Clinic site phone 352-372-8523 (see above description, and website http://hhcg.org/) you come to schedule an appointment (no dental procedures done this visit); then
Step 2: Actual treatment appointment will be scheduled for first or third Tuesday of each month in which the patient must be at the Helping Hands Clinic at 9:00 AM (First United Methodist Church
419 NE 1st Street, Gainesville
) to take a special dental van to the actual dental clinic which is in Brooker Florida at the Acorn Clinic.

Needy Meds Program
Website: www.NeedyMeds.com
A resource for people who cannot afford medicine or other healthcare costs


List of many resources in Alachua County
Click here (on NAMI Gainesville website) ...


Street Card
Info about free shelters, meals, street laws, etc. in Alachua County
Download card: http://www.acchh.org/streetcard.pdf

  • Click here for Reintegration Scholarship application. This is to help people with schizophrenia, related schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, or bipolar disorder acquire the educational and vocational skills necessary to reintegrate into society, secure jobs, and regain their lives, allowing people to move their lives forward and attain their individual potential. A very few number of these scholarships are given nationally, but it is worth trying.
 

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