Copeland Center promotes personal, organizational, and community wellness and empowerment through education, training, and research.
Copeland Center
PO Box 6471
Brattleboro, VT 05302
802-254-5335
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Welcome to the Copeland Center for Wellness and Recovery. We are the leading organization around the world based on the Wellness Recovery Action Plan® (WRAP®) and other works developed by Dr. Mary Ellen Copeland (www.wrapandrecoverybooks.com). Our trainings and programs are for any person seeking to take personal responsibility to improve their wellness. We also work with health service providers, businesses and community groups who are seeking to improve their wellness and create a healthy workplace environment.
The Copeland Center is proud to share that WRAP® is now recognized by the Federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration (SAMHSA) as an evidence based practice. Through the dedication of people in recovery sharing their experience with WRAP® and researchers at the University of Illinois in Chicago, WRAP® is saving lives and helping people experience greater levels of wellness. (http://nrepp.samhsa.gov/ViewIntervention.aspx?id=208)
Read more here
 Gina Calhoun, The Copeland Center’s National Director of Wellness and Recovery Education, is the 2012 recipient of the Timothy J. Coakley Behavioral Health Leadership Award. This award honors consumer and family leaders in the behavioral health field whose work is characterized by the highest degree of integrity and a passion for creative approaches for improving the lives of persons living with mental illnesses, especially in the public sector.
An outstanding leader, advocate, program innovator, and visionary, Tim Coakley pioneered alternatives to psychiatric hospitalization for adolescents, initiated award-winning services for homeless families, and cultivated a broad range of psychosocial services for people with serious mental illnesses.
Kris Ericson, PhD, Executive Director, of ACMHA: The College for Behavioral Health Leadership stated: “I wish that I could describe to you effectively the impact Gina had on the folks attending the ACMHA Summit. She was one of my two highlights for the week.”
Pictured is Gina Calhoun, right, and Joan Erney at left, member of ACMHA: The College for Behavioral Health Leadership. ACMHA is a national membership organization focused on being a convener of diverse and emerging leaders concerned with mental health and substance use policy and practice from across systems.
Congratulations Gina!
Thank you to everyone who joined us for the webinar: “Creating A Culture of Wellness: A Path To Eliminating Seclusion and Restraints”.
The Copeland Center would like extended to thank the panelists:
Joan Gillece, PhD – Director, SAMHSA Promoting Alternatives to Seclusion and Restraint through Trauma-Informed Care Practices and Director, SAMHSA’s National Center for Trauma-informed Care
Tonier Cain – Coordinator of Consumer Affairs SAMHSA Promoting Alternatives to Seclusion and Restraint through Trauma-Informed Care Practices and Coordinator, SAMHSA’s National Center for Trauma-informed Care
Michael Hlebchuk from Oregon State Hospital
Aidan Altenor – former Bureau Director for Hospital and Community Operations- PA Office of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services
Robbie Altenor – former Assistant for Criminal Justice and Special Populations, PA Office of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services – Office of the Deputy Secretary
Cheryl Sharp – Moderator - from the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare
Gina Calhoun – Introducing the webinar – from the Copeland Center, Director of Training and Wellness Education
Download the powerpoint presentation:
Eliminating Seclustion and Restraints Webinar Slides
Download the Copeland Center’s paper on Eliminating Seclusion and Restraints:
S/R Position Paper
Tonier Cain’s Documentary:
Healing Neen
 The Copeland Center’s Spring 2012 Newsletter is Now Available for Download!
Read articles by Mary Ellen Copeland, PhD, Executive Director: Matthew Federici, Advanced Level WRAP Facilitators: Nanette Larson and Carol Bailey Floyd, and WRAP Facilitators: Marvel Boolman and Marina Gresham.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Answers to Your Questions About
WRAP as an Evidence-Based Practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
WRAP®: A Universal Key for Whole Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Message from Dr. Copeland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Perspectives: Insight of Interconnection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Perspectives: Fluent in the Language of Wellness . . . . . . . . . . 7
Wellness Tools for Everyone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
WRAP Wellness Retreat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Many Faces of WRAP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Upcoming Events/Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
CopelandCenterNewsletterSpring2012-Email
 In 2003, Mary Ellen Copeland, PhD, celebrated author of WRAP, named the Copeland Center after an inspirational figure in her life, her mother. The Copeland Center was founded to insure the continuance of the networking of Mary Ellen Copeland’s well-known and highly respected mental health recovery and WRAP work. Dr. Copeland has been studying the recovery and wellness strategies of people who experience mental health issues for over 20 years. She began these studies out of her own frustration with finding simple and safe alternatives for dealing with her own mental health difficulties.
Mary Ellen Copeland writes: “The Copeland Center for Wellness and Recovery is named in honor of, and dedicated to, the memory of Kathryn Strouse Copeland (1912-1994). Kate was a remarkable woman–smart, warm, energetic, and vivacious. In 1949 her life circumstances overwhelmed her and she spent the next 8 years of her life in an asylum. Her family was told she was incurably insane. Through all her years in that horrific place, Kate never gave up hope that she would someday leave that facility and regain her life. Recognizing her own need to talk with others, she began gathering patients together in small groups to share their experiences. The hospital administration became uncomfortable with these meeting (the first peer support) and Kate was discharged at the age of 45. Kate went on from there to get a highly coveted job as nutritionist in an inner city high school. She worked there successfully for over 20 years. And the numbers of kids taking hot lunch increased dramatically. She went on to have a rich and rewarding retirement, filled with the love of family and friends. At a time when recovery was touted as being impossible, she recovered. And she led the way for all the rest of us.”
Read Mary Ellen Copeland’s article: “Remembering Kate – A Story of Hope”
 Thank you to Katherine F. H. Heart from Heart Resources for presenting on “Writing Grant Proposals for WRAP.” In her presentation, Katherine revealed some work she did with Advanced Level WRAP Facilitator, Walter Hudson, on a proposal to bring WRAP training to Veterans in Ohio. Katherine also revealed the steps to thinking through a great idea, to finding funders, to writing a proposal that will get noticed (or at least not thrown out) by a funder.
Download the powerpoint presentation
People First , Pennsylvania’s source for news and features for consumers, supporter and providers of the behavioral health system, has a long feature on WRAP. The article interviews Gina Calhoun, Director of Training for Wellness and Recovery Education, and Jeanie Whitecraft, Advanced Level WRAP Facilitator at the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania. The article looks at PA’s WRAP initiative, WRAP as an evidence-based practice, and the spread of WRAP to Japan.
Download the PDF – Article starts on page 3.
 January 25-27, 2013
Oakland, California
The Copeland Center is pleased to announce that the 2nd International WRAP Around the World Conference will be held in Oakland, California on January 25, 26 and 27, 2013. The conference will be held at the Oakland Marriott.
More information coming soon! Please check back.
Thank you to all who joined Matthew Federici, Executive Director of the Copeland Center, and Judith Cook, Ph.D., for WRAP as an Evidence-Based Practice Webinar on Tuesday, January 10, 2012. The study Judith Cook lead with contributions from Mary Ellen Copeland, PhD, Carol Bailey Floyd, Walter Hudson and others contributed the main research that was accepted by SAMHSA’s Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices.
The study conducted by Judith Cook at al. concluded that WRAP recipients improved more than controls from baseline to 8-month follow-up on multiple outcomes including:
- Increased hopefulness
- Increased quality of life
- Increased recovery
- Increased empowerment
New Findings have shown:
- Increased self-advocacy
- Reduced psychiatric symptoms, especially depression & anxiety
Download the Presentation: WRAP as an Evidence-Based Practice
Thank you to all those who joined Gina Calhoun, Director of Training, and her children guests: Rachel, Ashley, and Damien for attending the WRAP for Kids Webinar. Over 250 participants joined Gina leading the kids through discovering their wellness tools, when you feel really good, and things to do everyday. Matthew Federici, Executive Director, then offered parents, caretakers and care providers perspectives on creating WRAP with kids.
View the powerpoint
25 WRAP Facilitators joined Copeland Center staff and trainers for 5-day Advanced Level WRAP Facilitator Training at the Asilomar Conference Center in Monteray, CA. The training was an international experience; participants came from Japan, United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States including AK, AL, CA, IN, ME, MN, OK, PA, TX, and VA. We were proud to host such a diverse set of people committed to recovery and bringing systems change back to their home communities.
The Advanced Level Training is all about how to train and prepare WRAP® Facilitators. It is a workshop for experienced facilitators with an in-depth knowledge and thorough mastery of both WRAP and facilitation skills. Certified Advanced Level WRAP Facilitators go out into their communities knowing that they possess the skills and knowledge to train others to do this work faithfully and in a manner that is consistent with the work of Mary Ellen Copeland.
The five day intensive workshop goes through all the skills, values, and ethics needed to offer WRAP® Facilitator Trainings. The training is run by a select group of Copeland Center Facilitators who are very experienced in facilitating groups and work closely with the Center’s current findings and effective facilitation approaches through partnership with the Executive Director and Mary Ellen Copeland.
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