Copeland Center

WRAP Facilitator Training in downtown Boise, ID – April 12-16

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:20:02 +0000

The Copeland Center is offering WRAP Facilitator Training at the Owyhee Plaza Hotel in downtown Boise, ID.

Through 4 performance elements and training from 2 experienced Advanced Level Facilitator, the workshop is designed to learn WRAP’s values and ethics as well as implementation of those values in groups, WRAP facilitation techniques, and guide you on your path to run WRAP groups, workshops, and seminars in your own community.

This course is intended for people who have a strong knowledge of WRAP and who have written their own WRAP or supported others in writing theirs.

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Kate Copeland – Inspirational Namesake of the Copeland Center

admin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:10:45 +0000

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.

WRAP Facilitator Training in Austin, TX – February 1-5, 2010

admin — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:57:00 +0000

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;
• work with individuals and groups to develop a Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP),
• 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.

At the end of the five days you will receive Copeland Center WRAP Facilitator certification allow you to run WRAP groups, support individuals on their recovery journeys, and enjoy the benefits of being a recovery educator.

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The Correspondence Course

admin — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:49:01 +0000

This course is designed to help you learn mental health recovery concepts and skills and how to develop a Wellness Recovery Action Plan® (WRAP)

It consists of six in-depth lessons that cover recovery topics, peer support, trauma, lifestyle issues, WRAP, and other important parts of the knowledge base to become an excellent WRAP facilitator. Taught by an experienced instructor, take this course at your own pace before your WRAP Facilitator training. Taking the Correspondence Course prepares you to become a certified WRAP facilitator.

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Copeland Center Announces New Executive Director

admin — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:01:59 +0000

The Copeland Center for Wellness and Recovery is excited to announce that Matthew Federici will be coming aboard as Executive Director. Matthew Federici is a national leader and advocate for systems transformation. Prior to joining the Copeland Center, Matthew directed the Institute for Recovery & Community Integration which was instrumental in the development and implementation of Pennsylvania’s Systems Transformation through Certified Peer Specialist and Wellness Recovery Action Plan training programs. His work with the Institute on Peer Specialists implementation outcomes was published in the Journal of Psychiatric Rehabilitation. He was also a contributing author in the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Skills in Practice: A CPRP Preparation and skills workbook.

Matthew is a Certified Psychiatric Rehabilitation Practitioner and member of the United States Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association. He received his B.A. from Alvernia College in Psychology and Communications and M.S. in Rehabilitation Counseling at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. He has also worked in various capacities ranging from group therapy, independent housing support to implementing a supported employment and education program. He currently serves on the National Association of Peer Specialist (NAPS) Board and the Pennsylvania Association of Psychosocial Rehabilitation Services (PAPSRS) Board.

He was awarded the Distinguished Advocate Award from the Pennsylvania Association of Psychosocial Rehabilitation Services in 2002; Exemplary Practice Award in 2007 from the Mental Health Association of Southeastern PA Board of Directors and the Distinguished Career Award from the Pennsylvania Association of Psychosocial Rehabilitation Services in 2009.

Most significantly, Matthew shares that his passion comes from his personal experience in wellness and recovery and utilizing the wellness recovery action plan for multiple levels of his life. Further, he has found the most powerful tool in facilitating recovery for others has been offering peer support and a message of hope. He is a member of family and consumer advocacy groups and has been a promoter of Psychiatric Advance Directives though local, state and national consumer and provider conferences throughout his career.

Matthew’s vision as a leader for the Copeland Center is based on offering the support and guidance to its WRAP Facilitators and partnering organizations to transform their communities to be healthier environments through the key concepts of Hope, Personal Responsibility, Education, Self Advocacy and Support.

Matthew will begin full-time at the end of January 2010.

The Copeland Center has MOVED

admin — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:47:09 +0000

Please note our new contact information:

Copeland Center for Wellness and Recovery
PO Box 6471
Brattleboro, VT 05302
802-254-5335
802-254-5330 (fax)
info@copelandcenter.com
http://copelandcenter.com