JAK’s Place

Mission Statement

We are a community resource center with an inviting, encouraging and caring atmosphere focused on the needs, hopes, goals and gifts of everyone who comes in our door.

Through outreach, education and active programming, we seek to be a refuge and a beacon for all those whose lives have been impacted by mental illness.

Background

JAK’s Place opened in September 2006 as a community resource for those whose lives have been touched by mental illness.

The center is named after Jonah Andrew Klapatch (JAK), who lost his life to the unpredictable effects of mental illness in 2005.

JAK’s Place operates under the direction of NAMI Door County – a chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

The center has evolved through dedicated group of Door County citizens committed to seeing a central point for education, information, support and advocacy related to mental illness.

Jonah