Membership Agreement

Code of Conduct, Rainbow Heights Club

 

Respect yourself and others:

• Respect people’s boundaries and personal space.

• Ask for permission each time before you offer someone a hug.  Don’t hug or touch people from behind, it can startle and upset somebody.

• If you have a partner or special friend, congratulations, but don’t sit and cuddle with them while you are here at the club.  It can be distracting.  Some people don’t have someone to cuddle with.  Please be considerate.

• Members live with a variety of mental health symptoms.  Please be patient and understanding.

• Don’t swear at people.   You can swear, but don’t swear at anybody.  Don’t call people names.

• We are here to work at our recoveries.  Dress and groom yourself and conduct yourself so we can all focus on that.

• Respect and use the names and pronouns that are right for people, just as you would want to be respected.

• Respect how people identify themselves, just as you would want to be respected.

• Staff members can’t date or have relationships with club members. 

• Staff can’t socialize with members outside the club, or participate in social networks (facebook, chat lines, or twitter), or visit members at their homes.

• Staff can’t buy or sell anything to or from members, or lend or give money or anything of value (like cigarettes, coffee, cellphones, etc.) to members.

• Members can’t buy or sell things to each other, or lend or borrow money, at the club. 

• Please don’t ask anybody for money at the club.

 

Help make this a safe space, emotionally and physically:

• Tell staff right away if you feel unsafe, physically or emotionally.

• Protect everyone’s confidentiality, inside and outside of the club.  Don’t gossip.

• Agree to disagree.  People see things in different ways, but we can still get along.

• Everybody deserves their privacy.  If someone says, “I’d rather not talk about that,” let’s respect that and change the subject.

• Remember that many people here have been through various kinds of trauma.  Something that doesn’t bother one person at all might be very upsetting to somebody else.  When somebody tells us that something bothers them, let’s believe them.

• If you are not feeling well, stay home and take care of yourself.  Don’t come to the club. 

• Wash your hands regularly and use hand sanitizer.

• Don’t come to the club if you have been drinking, or using, or are drunk or high.  We don’t want to distract people from their recovery.

  • It doesn’t matter that cannabis is legal now.  Alcohol is legal too.  We can’t do either one before we come to the club, or while we are here.

  • If you are high or intoxicated while you’re here, you will be asked to leave immediately.

• Keep a low profile as you enter and leave the building.  This helps us maintain confidentiality and safety.

• Don’t stand in front of the building to smoke; walk down the block or over to the curb. 

• Children are not permitted at the club.  All members and guests must be 18 or older.

 

Help make this a fun place we all can enjoy:

• Take a shower every day, and wash your clothes every week.

• Keep your valuables with you at all times.  If you’re charging your phone, don’t walk away from it.  Rainbow Heights Club cannot be responsible for your personal belongings

• Always clean up after yourself promptly in all areas of the club. 

 

 

 

 

The following rules are very serious and important.  If you break one of them, you will probably have to leave the club, and you may not be able to come back. 

 

• Don’t bring weapons, drugs or alcohol to the club

 

• Don’t engage in any criminal activity, including stealing, or the use or sale of drugs

 

• Don’t engage in any kind of violence or the threat of violence

 

• Don’t engage in any kind of sexual behavior at the club

 

• Don’t engage in any kind of racist, sexist, homophobic, heterophobic, biphobic, or transphobic behavior or speech

 

Criminal behavior will be reported to the police, and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

 

 

Thank you for thinking about and upholding this code of conduct.