Chrysalis, Inc.

MISSION

Chrysalis promotes mental health and substance use recovery in our community by supporting work opportunities that encourage hope, healing, and wellness.

VISION

Chrysalis envisions a community where everyone belongs. A community that is free from stigma, rooted in racial and social justice. This community is one where:

• Wellness and recovery are possible
• Work, education, and purpose are recognized as integral to recovery
• Everyone has access to peer support and holistic, equitable mental health and substance use services, and
• Diverse lived experiences and strengths are celebrated

BELIEFS

• Work is recovery. 
• Recovery is a process. 
• In person-centered services. 
• Everyone deserves dignity. 
• People are constantly growing and evolving. 
• Everyone is a learner, everyone is a teacher. 
• Systemic oppression of marginalized communities is real, and it is our responsibility to create a more inclusive environment.

RESOLUTIONS

• Actively listen. 
• Lift each other up. 
• Reduce stigma. 
• Promote trust in the workplace. 
• Embrace conflict and grow from it. 
• Have a staff that is representative of our community. 
• Take action to support social justice in our work. 
• Bring joy and celebration into this work.

Chrysalis Clubhouse

The Chrysalis Clubhouse is a place where people with mental health challenges come to build relationships, work on employment and education goals, and support their individual recovery process. The Chrysalis Clubhouse welcomes people with different abilities and is an inclusive, nonjudgmental environment.

Supported Employment – Individual Placement and Support (IPS)

The Supported Employment Program is available for individuals seeking community-based competitive employment.  The program offers services such as vocational skills assessments, assistance with the job search process, initial on-the-job training, and ongoing support. IPS is an evidence-based practice from Dartmouth University.

Vocational Peer Support

The peer specialist movement embodies Chrysalis’ strengths-based perspective. Vocational peer supports give persons with mental illnesses the opportunity to use their unique set of recovery experiences in combination with solid skills training to support peers who have mental illnesses achieve their vocational goals.

Wings CSC

In 2023, Chrysalis and FLYY (Forward Learning Youth and Young Adults) partnered with the WI Department of Health Services to create Wings, a comprehensive service model centered around young people experiencing their first episode of Psychosis. The full service array includes: care coordination, education and employment support, peer support, skills development, therapy, and psychoeducation.

Chrysalis Pops

In 2016, Chrysalis started a new Social Enterprise. Chrysalis Pops offers paid work opportunities that improve the mental health and wellness of individuals and the community through local, organic pops. We work hard to source most of the produce for our pops from local suppliers.