Copeland Center Trainers, Speakers & Consultants
Carol Bailey Floyd
Carol Bailey Floyd is the Director of Programs for Mental Health Recovery and WRAP and has facilitated WRAP since 2003. She enjoys training facilitators and has been involved with WRAP in various capacities around the U.S. and Canada.Embracing WRAP wholeheartedly as a way of living has enabled Carol to find balance and well-being in ways she never thought possible. As a result, she is always enthusiastic about introducing WRAP to others – individually or in groups.She can give a two minute, five minute, two hour, three day or week long WRAP presentation!Carol is the WRAP Consultant and Trainer for the Ohio Empowerment Coalition, and with the help of Thelma Rist, is setting up WRAP activities around the state. When the University of Illinois at Chicago conducted their WRAP Research Project, Carol was the Project Coordinator. As a DBSA (Depression Bipolar Support Alliance) facilitator, Carol has been involved for many years with their support groups and leadership activities. She is the founder of the Laughing Club of N.E. Ohio.
Carol enjoys giving presentations on many subjects – gratitude, journaling, loneliness, fun and creative wellness tools and other WRAP related topics, as well as regular WRAP overviews and other WRAP presentations.
Erica Buffington
Erica Buffington has been actively involved in mental health wellness and recovery for 18 years. She has given presentations in the U.S. and Canada on wellness, recovery and the WRAP in addition to conducting WRAP Facilitator Trainings. Audiences have included individuals who self-identify, family members and professionals. For 4 years (2000-2004) she coordinated WRAP activities in Minnesota through the Mental Health Consumer/Survivor Network of MN.
She is an Advance Level Mental Health Recovery Educator and WRAP Facilitator and has facilitated over forty 3 and 5 day trainings in five years. Erica has also been the instructor for the Mental Health Recovery and WRAP Correspondence Course for the past three and a half years. In addition to her activities in the recovery and WRAP areas, she has co-authored a curriculum on the elimination of seclusion and restraint. She continued to provide assistance until January 31, 2005 to the Mental Health Consumer/Survivor Network (CSN) through grant writing, curriculum development and the training of CSN staff. As of February 2005 Erica has been an independent contractor with The Copeland Center.
In 1990 Erica received a Masters Degree in Mental Health Administration and in 2002 a doctorate in the same field. Her area of emphasis has always been on recovery and individual self care through peer support.
Sarah Brown
Sarah Brown, a lead Advanced Level Trainer for the Copeland Center, previously worked as Prevention, Education and Outreach Specialist in the Dept. of Recovery & Resiliency for ValueOptions New Mexico and as Consumer Empowerment Specialist/Recovery Services Coordinator for Presbyterian Medical Services in Santa Fe. Sarah was the first to officially bring WRAP to New Mexico, training and supporting over seventy-five WRAP Facilitators around the state. She began as a four-hour-a-week “peer advocate” and worked her way up to a full-time program coordinator with statewide influence. Other program initiatives included journal writing and peer counseling. She now resides in Jersey City, New Jersey.
