What is a Lodge?

The Fairweather Lodge model offers a unique, community-based approach to mental health recovery and independent living. Lodges are shared homes for 3–8 members, fostering an extended-family environment where individuals support one another and share responsibility for managing their household. This peer-driven model promotes teamwork, self-reliance, and personal independence.

Unlike group homes, Tasks Unlimited “Lodges” are home settings where everyone rents their own room and shares communal spaces.

Lodges help facilitate:

• Independent living, including tenant education, household upkeep, budgeting, and navigating public transportation.
• Exploring employment opportunities.
• Engaging with peers and staff for assistance in handling mental health symptoms.
• Forming a community of peers who can provide support and guidance in overcoming mental health and life obstacles.

We have 17 lodges around the Twin Cities metro area. The lodges are located in Richfield, Golden Valley, Bloomington, Brooklyn Park, St. Louis Park, New Hope, Edina, Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Burnsville.

The first step is the “Transition Lodge”

Our Transition Lodge (T-Lodge) is a short term rental option where people interested in “Lodge Life” can learn more about the what it means to be part of a Lodge community and explore how the Fairweather Lodge Model could fit with the goals you have for your life.

Eligibility Criteria

• 18 years of age or older
• Diagnosed with a serious and persistent mental illness
• Healthy enough to participate in a full range of programming and activities
• Demonstrate interest in and capacity to benefit from this peer led model and to live with others