Here's how you can help save Rainbow Heights Club...

Right now, the most helpful thing you can do is pick up the phone and give Governor Pataki a one-minute phone call.  Here's how.

In the future, though, your letters of support could help us get the funding we need to keep the club open.

If you're a consumer, or a friend or family member of a consumer, tell us your story: how Rainbow Heights Club has helped you (such as go back to work, make new friends so you are not isolated, join a job training program, live a more healthy life, be happier and more able to do things for yourself) and what life has been like when you were at your worst before you came to Rainbow Heights Club. Then we can share your story with people who might be able to help.

If you're a care provider, and you've worked with Rainbow Heights Club, or seen the good effects our agency has had on consumers you work with, please write a letter of support and let people know about your experience.

A letter telling your story will be most effective if we can add your full name and address. Please think about whether you are willing to do this. Thank you.

Consumers Tell about something Rainbow Heights Club has helped you to do. Please make it specific, concrete and two sentences. Has Rainbow Heights Club helped keep you from going to the hospital or emergency room? Please share your experience(s). We will have a form up soon, but for today, please e-mail us. Or come to the club and we'll help you tell your story.

Providers Tell about what it might be like if your consumers did not have Rainbow Heights in their life. Please make it specific, concrete and two sentences. If a client of yours has avoided using the hospital or emergency room due to Rainbow Heights Club, please share. Here's everything you need to write letters in support of Rainbow Heights Club. You can also make a secure online donation to Rainbow Heights Club.

One Story “Rainbow Heights Club has helped me to have friends, stay compliant with my treatment, maintain my recovery, learn to make small talk, and give support to other consumers. That makes me feel really good – for the first time in a long time. And I haven’t been to the hospital since I joined.” “If I didn’t have Rainbow Heights Club to come to, I’d be isolated and depressed again. All the things that are keeping me out of the hospital right now – the sense of social support and friendships that I find in the club – wouldn’t be there for me. I would probably feel depressed and suicidal, and I would probably go back to the hospital.”