Again! The Fourth annual GOC Fall festival has come and gone. We have been in this great place for five years now and the community is embracing us. Flip through the pictures to see who attended. Maybe you can be here next year. Alachua County Department of Community Support Services Housing Programs Clubhouse International – ICCD Gainesville Rotary Club Rotary District 6970 Rotary Club of Downtown Gainesville Cintas Corporation Elite DNA Behavioral Health Rotary Club of Greater Gainesville Rotaract Club of Gainesville Alachua County Alachua County Sheriff Gainesville Fire Rescue City of Gainesville, FL – Government Alachua County Crisis Center DR Baker Construction First Federal Bank Lutheran Services Florida Associates Realty Services HCA Florida North Florida Hospital UF College of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry UF Campaign for Charities UF Health GRACE Marketplace Meridian Healthcare

We are all working together to help people with mental illness. GOC Member Carrie is always smiling. Our Board Chair Mercy Quiroga is with Margie Foster and GOC Member Wendie. Dauod and Shoab Rana along with Nancy and Kathleen Ryan. Great to see you all. Thank you Karen Davilla for making this delicious cake! Natasha Fredricks-Klein from HCA North Florida Hospital shares about the HCA program. So many of us supporting the same cause to help those living with severe mental illness. Thank you to Elite DNA and Ted Toole for sponsoring the GOC!!!!! Elite DNA has supported other Clubhouses like the GOC in Sarasota and Ft. Myers. Commissioner Bryan Eastman with GOC Board Member Manny Quiroga. Patrick Dodds along with GOC Board member Bill Stephenson. Patrick is Executive Director of the Bread of the Mighty Food bank. The GOC gets food there. Mia Chisolm ran our photo booth. Student volunteers from UF helped run the grill. Thank you Harris Justin, Jason De Jesus, Maya Gary, and Tiana Casseus and James Agan! Command Staff and co-reponders from two agencies. It is great to have such a good relationship with our local law enforcement. We are all working together. Thank you to all who attended. Former Board Member Gail Childs with Pat Bateman worked our Ambassador table. Davida drove down from Jacksonville. She is our Network Manager at Lutheran Services Florida. Michelle Sherfield with ACSO and City Commissioner Bryan Easttman. Sarah Slimak and the Alachua County Crisis Center work very closely with the GOC. Cintas donated the food for our meal. We charged $10 and made an extra $900 for our program. Corner Drug Store was here showing support and sharing their services. Margie is showing Davida from LSF the donation the Rotary Clubs made to us. Deputy Matt Davis and Babi make up a great co-responder team. Christine Baker from North Florida Hospital is always at our events. Davida Simmons visited from our funding agency, Lutheran Services of Florida. Greg Young and Dalton Baker of the Gainesville Rotary Club. GOC’s Brett Buell is with Ed Book. Ashley Tozier and the team from Meridian. GOC Members Joanna, Wendy, and David. GOC Member Scott along with Joan Stevens and other guests. Tracey Brown of Grace Marketplace and City Commissioner Bryan Eastman. Margie Foster is with Jessica Yupanqui of UF Health Psychiatric Hospital. Thank you to Natasha Fredrick Klein of HCA Florida North Florida Hospital for sponsoring us. Natasha is so dedicated and attends so many GOC events. Thank you Cristina and Karina for working the cash register. Brooke Lupinacci, Donna Rowland, and Alexis Day represent Meridian very well. The Associates Realty Team and Greater Gainesville Rotary Club joined us. Thank you Bree, Chris, and Josh. With volunteers from the Brown Center at UF and food donations from Cintas, we got to keep all of the proceeds from food sales. GOC Board member Joanne Edde with Margie Foster and Brett Buell. Joanne’s bank, First Federal, has done so much for us! Alina and her mother Celine. Margie along with her nephew and his family James and Brittany Gibson and son Isaac. Dalton Baker of DR Baker Construction, County Commissioner Mary Helen Wheeler, Brett Buell, and Bryan Eastman are enjoying each other’s company. Dalton Baker led our kitchen renovation. Krista Ott and Chatick from the Communiy Resource Paramedic program are frequent visitors. Thank you Mary Beth and Amanda from IQ Fiber!!!! Steve Elder, GOC Board Member Jennifer Elder enjoy the weather and a great meal with GOC Member Kyana. IQ Fiber has been a regular sponsor of the GOC recently. We have heard nothing but good things about their Internet services.