Please join us for the FREE webinar: “Writing Grant Proposals for WRAP” with Katherine F. H. Heart, president of Heart Resources on February 9, 2012 – 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm EDT.
This webinar will provide basic information about seeking grants for Wellness Recovery Action Plans. Grants can be found to: start or expand the number of WRAP groups, train facilitators, integrate WRAP into formal systems of care, and apply WRAP to other community programs that serve the needs of children and families, veterans, and other people with health and mental health issues. Participants will learn about the grant seeking process, basic proposal writing, researching potential funders, and resources for further study. WRAP Facilitators may be able to advance their careers by developing knowledge and skill in grant proposal writing.

This is a great opportunity for anyone looking into ways to fund a WRAP program as well as for people looking to advocate to get more WRAP into their agency or organization. It is ideal for WRAP Facilitators, administrators, volunteers, board members, and those using WRAP or those supporting others to use WRAP.

Katherine F.H. Heart, M.Ed. presented this topic at WRAP Around the World and offers an eGuide: Writing Grant Proposals for WRAP and Wellness Recovery Programs. Katherine founded Heart Resources, LLC, a social enterprise company dedicated to spreading wellness with grant projects, presentations and publications that assist nonprofits to solve challenging health problems. She received a master’s degree in health and physical education from the University of Pittsburgh in 1984. Katherine managed nonprofit programs in fitness/ health promotion and victim services for 15 years before she became disabled with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) – her wellness story can be found among the Voices for Recovery at SAMHSA’s National Recovery Month website. In the past 10 years, Katherine’s efforts have earned millions of dollars in grant awards for health and human service organizations from corporate, foundation and government funders. She makes frequent presentations on wellness and grant topics. Her company participated in the consortium to develop the Health People 2020 Objectives and signed the 10×10 Wellness Campaign pledge. Katherine recently started a blog to disseminate a peer-advised physical activity program developed with the Steel Valley Council of Governments and funded by the Office of Health Promotion/Disease Prevention.

Seating is limited. Register Today! https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/382135009

FREE WEBINAR!

The Copeland Center is hosting a panel discussion with people who are leading or have led initiatives to reduce and eliminate seclusion and restraints. Panelists will give a national perspective on eliminating seclusion and restraints, talk about trauma informed care in the efforts to eliminate seclusion and restraints, and describe creating cultural changes in hospitals that lead toward a wellness oriented environment including the introduction of the Wellness Recovery Action Plan.

Panelists Include:
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 from the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare will moderate the panel.

Learning objectives

Participants will be able to:
1. state the Copeland Center’s position on eliminating S/R
2. describe the importance of creating a wellness and recovery-oriented environment and alternatives to the use of S/R
3. list several alternative approaches to seclusion and restraint that support people to maintain personal wellness and safety
4. describe how WRAP and Mary Ellen Copeland’s other work can be utilized to create this environment and ultimately move away from the use of S/R

To register: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/425269352

WRAP Facilitator Training
at the 42nd National Council Conference
Hilton Chicago, Chicago, IL
April 9–13, 2012

Presented in Partnership with the Copeland Center for Wellness and Recovery and National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare

The WRAP® Facilitators course is an experiential learning environment based on mutuality. Participants in this course will be expected to participate in interactive learning activities and demonstrate their own experience with WRAP®. Before attending the seminar, it is expected that you have familiarity with the different parts of WRAP through completion of one of the following prerequisites:

• Copeland Center Correspondence Course,
• 2 or 3 day Seminar I Course,
• 8 or 12 week Seminar I workshop

Additionally, you should also have and use your own WRAP®, or assisted and supported another person in developing and using their WRAP®. All Seminar I prerequisite course must be conducted by a WRAP® Facilitator. Note: Participation alone is not a guarantee of certification. Participants are expected to demonstrate a core set of values and ethics. Course instructors will make every effort to work
with participant toward successful completion of the course and/or establish next steps for
certification.

Registration for the five-day WRAP Facilitator Training is $1,200.00

Course participants may also choose to attend the National Council Conference held April 15 – 17, 2012 after the WRAP Facilitator Training. Registration for the National Council Conference will require a separate fee.

WRAP Registration Form

Matthew Federici, MS, CPRP, Executive Director; Gina Calhoun, CPS, National Director, Wellness & Recovery Education — Copeland Center for Wellness and Recovery will present a Pre-Conference University at the 42nd National Council Mental Health and Addictions Conference in Chicago, IL.

Workshop Description

From humble beginnings, WRAP® (Wellness Recovery Action Plan) has become the touchstone for recovery from mental illness. WRAP’s success with an array of populations — the homeless, veterans, children and adolescents, peers in the workforce — is well documented. And now we’re learning that the techniques and skills WRAP offers also apply to struggles with substance use, smoking cessation, weight loss, gaining and sustaining employment, and even healing from trauma. WRAP offers an evidence-based recovery roadmap and delivers a preconference university that has the potential to transform your organization.

Register today for FD6

Tuition: $299 – $350 depending on National Council membership status

Course participants may also choose to attend the National Council Conference held April 15 – 17, 2012 after the Pre-Conference University. Registration for the National Council Conference will require a separate fee.

Join experienced recovery educators for a week of activities, workshops, and fun while expanding your wellness toolbox, trying new things, and focusing on your personal wellness. Recovery educators will be on hand to support participants in writing and expanding their WRAPs.

Arrive Sunday, for dinner and get to know each other activities. Each day will start out with the full group delving into either writing or expanding their Wellness Recovery Action Plan with a special focus on balancing your wellness toolbox, identifying your triggers and early warning signs, and building support into your life. The afternoons will consist of concurrent workshops to get your mind and body moving. Workshops will include yoga, tai chi, art activities, journaling, mediation, Zumba, discussions on sex and intimacy, facilitating WRAP, and much more. Each activity will be followed by a chance to deeply reflect on how these things could fit fully into your own life. The Retreat wraps up on Saturday at lunchtime when all participants will receive certificates for their participation at a celebration of continuing wellness.

The Wellness Retreat is open to anyone from WRAP beginners to Advanced Level WRAP Facilitators. Attending the Wellness Retreat will qualify participants for WRAP Facilitator Training.

Tuition: $750 including all meals, activities, and lodging. Participants responsible for their own travel to the location.

To apply: http://tinyurl.com/WRAPretreat-2012

Location: Genesis Spiritual Life and Conference Center (53 Mill Street, Westfield, MA 01085)

For more information, please contact Katie Wilson, Director of Marketing and Special Projects, katiejwilson@gmail.com

Spend five days with Copeland Center staff learning to become a Mental Health Recovery Educator designed to help you become a powerful change agent/recovery educator as a WRAP Facilitator. You will gain a deeper understanding of the recovery process and learn to:

• work with people who have mental health challenges to discover the strengths they have and can use to enhance their recovery;
• effectively share the underlying concepts necessary to recovery: hope, personal responsibility, education, self-advocacy, and support;
• work with individuals and groups to develop a Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP),
• teach about wellness tools and strategies;
• empower and motivate people to work toward recovery – feeling the way they want to feel, making their lives the way they want them to be, and moving toward meeting their life goals;
• use interaction and presentation styles and strategies that enhance recovery.

Thousands across the US and the world have trained as WRAP Facilitators and those people are changing the mental health system to honor people’s recovery journeys. This course models the behavior of a facilitator in a WRAP class and stresses authenticity and unconditional high regard, as well as a strong set of values and ethics to guide your work.

This training will take place at the Marlboro College Graduate Center in downtown Brattleboro, VT.