 Be patient and kind to everyone. Be courteous and respectful to staff and other club members. |
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| Keep each other safe. |
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| Protect everyone’s confidentiality – don’t gossip. |
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| Act like you’re in a professional environment, because you are. |
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| Clean up after yourself. |
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| Don’t take things personally. |
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| Agree to disagree. |
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| Take your medications. See your therapist and psychiatrist. If you don’t have a therapist, get one. |
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| Keep your valuables on your person at all times, or lock them in a locker. Rainbow Heights Club is not responsible for your personal belongings. |
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| If you use a locker, take your belongings and your lock home with you at the end of the day. If you don’t, your lock will be cut and your belongings will be discarded. |
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| If you come to the club early (before 12:30pm) please wait in the 3rd floor waiting room. |
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| Maintain good personal hygiene. Take a shower every day and wash your hands frequently. |
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| Don’t come to the club if you are ill, or drunk, or high. |
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| Wash your hands and take off your coat before handling food or entering the kitchen. |
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| Only the volunteer coffee maker may make coffee during the day (after 12:30PM). |
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| Food in the kitchen are only for meals; please stay out of the kitchen unless helping with meal preparation or cleanup. |
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| You may bring a visitor to the club, but you should explain to them that this is a club for LGBT people who are mental health consumers. |
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| A visitor can come to the club only once a month and may not use the computers. |
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| Don’t stand in front of the building and smoke. Keep a low profile as you enter and leave the building. |
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| Sexual harassment or behavior of any kind is forbidden while you are at the club. “Hello” hugs and “hello” kisses are fine, but always ask permission first. Any kind of intimate behavior is not appropriate behavior for the club and can lead to suspension or expulsion. |
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| Staff members are not allowed to date or have relationships with club members. |
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| Staff members do not socialize with club members outside the club, do business with club members, or visit club members at their homes. |
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| Don’t bring weapons, street drugs or alcohol to the club. |
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| Don’t engage in any criminal activity, including theft, or the use or sale of drugs. |
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| Don’t engage in any kind of violence or the threat of violence. |
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| Don’t engage in any kind of sexual or intimate behavior at the club. |
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| Don’t use the Internet to view sexually explicit images or participate in chatrooms. |
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| Don’t curse and don’t be rude. Keep any open discussions of sex and relationships at a PG-13 level. |
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| Don’t engage in any kind of racist, sexist, homophobic, biphobic, heterophobic, or transphobic behavior or speech. The club and the clinic have a zero tolerance policy for this behavior |
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