Mental Health Recovery: Introduction to Recovery & WRAP

The training is open to anyone who wants to increase their understanding of mental health recovery concepts, skills and strategies, including the WRAP process.

Currently, this training is offered in local areas at the request of a sponsor or group of sponsors. It is offered in a 2 or 3 day format for up to 20 people.

Continuing Education for WRAP Facilitators

Advanced Crisis Planning

This intensive three-day workshop might well be called peer supported crisis planning, as it puts building a strong support network at the forefront of effective crisis planning and addresses how to empower supporters through a process of critical learning, negotiating, and redefining “help,” “safety,” “shared risk” and “shared responsibility.” This is a workshop that brings hard-won insights about “crisis planning” together with insights about “peer support” to provide new ways of building networks of mutual support that create more opportunities to stay at home, or in the community, and to learn and grow our way through times of “crisis.”

Note: Because developing a WRAP crisis plan is a more lengthy and involved process than most WRAP classes have time for, many WRAP programs are offering supplemental classes and/or support groups that are designed to support participants through the process of developing their personal crisis plans. This workshop would serve as a good foundation for developing such supplemental classes and support groups.

Advanced Crisis Planning classes are limited to just 18 participants in order to facilitate lots of interaction. The registration fee is $650, which covers all materials for the class. Refreshments and lunches are provided. Travel related expenses are extra and are the responsibility of the participants.

Creating, Supervising and Administering WRAP Programs

This intensive three-day workshop was developed as a practical yet comprehensive guide for starting up WRAP programs or improving the effectiveness of an existing program. This workshop was specifically designed to meet the needs of managers who are not certified WRAP Facilitators yet who are responsible for WRAP program development, supervision and/or management. The workshop’s focus is on empowering people to create the necessary infrastructure for an effective, self-sustaining WRAP program and provide ongoing support to peer-run initiatives. No previous experience with WRAP required.

Participants will learn both what WRAP is and what it isn’t, laying a solid foundation for program design, management, evaluation and accountability. From how to “create a safe learning environment” to the specifics of a “facilitated mutual learning model,” participants will learn what to expect from WRAP Facilitators, as well as come to understand management’s responsibility for supporting facilitators to uphold the values and ethics of WRAP. In addition to understanding the role and responsibilities of the facilitator, participants will learn about effective WRAP program supervision, program structure and formats, continuous quality improvement, marketing, and how to utilize the value and ethics of WRAP to resolve any challenges that crop up along the way. While funding matters vary significantly from state to state, this workshop will also address successful strategies for long-term fiscal viability.

Creating, Supervising and Administering WRAP Programs is limited to just 18 participants per class in order to facilitate lots of interaction. The registration fee is $650, which covers all materials for the class. Refreshments and lunches are provided. Travel related expenses are extra and are the responsibility of the participants.

The Essentials of Peer Support for WRAP Facilitators

This intensive three-day workshop that offers certified WRAP facilitators practical access to key peer support insights contained in Wellness Recovery Action Plan & Peer Support, co-authored by Mary Ellen Copeland and Shery Mead. This workshop is designed for both newly certified and experienced WRAP facilitators who are interested in strengthening their facilitation skills through learning more about the principles and practices of Intentional Peer Support. Participants will explore and practice the four tasks of peer support and learn how these tasks integrate seamlessly into highly effective WRAP facilitation.

This workshop is not a replacement for the WRAP Facilitator Certification training; rather, it is a supplement to that training, which builds and expands upon the basic facilitation skills that are learned in WRAP Facilitator Certification training and are a prerequisite for this course. People interested in integrating WRAP into Peer Support programs will be better served by taking the five-day WRAP and Peer Support workshop (offered by the Copeland Center) or Intentional Peer Support offered by Shery Mead (http://www.mentalhealthpeers.com).

The Essentials of Peer Support for WRAP Facilitators is limited to just 18 participants per class in order to facilitate lots of interaction. The registration fee is $650, which covers all materials for the class. Refreshments and lunches are provided. Travel related expenses are extra and are the responsibility of the participants.

WRAP Facilitator Refresher Course

The Copeland Center is now offering an updated three-day refresher for certified WRAP Facilitators that is designed to bring facilitators together to share what we have been learning about WRAP and “best practices” from facilitators across the country and around the world. Mary Ellen always said that WRAP is infinite and that what we know about it is constantly evolving, so here’s your opportunity to catch up on what’s “new” in the training and certification of WRAP facilitators, and to contribute the lessons you’ve learned as a facilitator to this growing body of knowledge. This is an intensive workshop in terms of the material we will cover together, but it’s interactive and provides plenty of opportunity to connect with peers and share what we have been learning through our classes. It includes a review of values, an update on effective practices and an all-important problem-solving session to help us meet the ongoing challenges we face as facilitators.

Classes are limited to just 18 participants in order to facilitate lots of interaction. The registration fee is $650, which covers all materials for the class. Refreshments and lunches are provided. Travel related expenses are extra and are the responsibility of the participants.

Transform Programs and Systems

Peer Run Crisis Alternatives

Although it’s long been known that peer programs are able to either prevent or help people move through even the most difficult times, crisis respite programs have really begun to challenge the traditional notion of crisis response. In these programs, peers support each other by using the crisis as an opportunity to break out of old patterns while learning how to stay connected. In doing this many people find that they are no longer the “powerless victim” of the crisis and discover skills and abilities that help prevent future crises.

In order to maintain this difference it is crucial that peers learn specific skills to help them respond in new and different ways. This five-day training offers:

• A review of trauma informed peer support
• New skills for working through conflict and difficult situations
• A method for using crisis as a relational learning opportunity
• Skills for proactively negotiating crisis situations
• Practices for maintaining values in high risk situations
• A model of on-going evaluation to help maintain program integrity.

Who is Eligible?
Anyone is welcome at this training who wants to set up a peer run crisis respite center.

Classes are limited to just 18 participants in order to facilitate lots of interaction. The registration fee is $995, which covers all materials for the class. Refreshments and lunches are provided. Travel related expenses are extra and are the responsibility of the participants. The text is Trauma informed Peer Support and Crisis Respite Training Manual.

Using WRAP and Mental Health Recovery to Transform Your Mental Health System

People who have attended this powerful training leave with a complete plan for using mental health recovery and WRAP strategies to create system change in their state, region, agency or organization–and with the energy and enthusiasm to do the job well.

Join us for an exciting week to learn from agencies from across the United States who are making significant progress in integrating recovery their programs and services. The workshop will include presentations of effective recovery and WRAP programs and personal consultation on your program or agency issues.

Learn
• Effective WRAP formats and implementation strategies.
• How developing WRAP creates the opportunity for more recovery-oriented programs.
• How to create a resource of peer facilitators through training, coaching, and support.
• Ideas for funding WRAP and recovery programs.

Design
• Use the WRAP format to create the vision for your optimal service delivery system.
• Plan the optimal recovery program for your agency with consultation from the Recovery Education Center faculty and your peers.

Implement
• Become part of a national support network that will provide continued consultation and support for your implementation during the year following the workshop.

Classes are limited to just 18 participants in order to facilitate lots of interaction. The registration fee is $1,100, which covers all materials for the class. Refreshments and lunches are provided. Travel related expenses are extra and are the responsibility of the participants. The text is Facilitator Training Manual: Mental Health Recovery and Wellness Recovery Action Plan® Curriculum.

Using WRAP and Peer Support

Peer support centers and programs all over the country are including WRAP groups as part of their program. At a recent meeting in Washington, program directors reported on the positive effects of this connection for both personal and group recovery. To make that connection possible for more and more centers and groups, and to do it in a way that truly supports relationship building, wellness and recovery, Shery Mead and Mary Ellen Copeland have written WRAP and Peer Support Manual: Personal, Group and Program Development which this training is based on.

This training is important for:
•People who want to understand some of the new shifts in WRAP
•People using WRAP in peer programs and
•People who want to teach WRAP and peer support

This training will provide a brief overview of WRAP, an explanation of trauma informed peer support, and examples of how these two practices work together. Participants will then practice teaching this new style of WRAP and Peer Support

The goals of this training are to help participants understand how WRAP might change when using this model of peer support and to help them develop the skills necessary to teach WRAP and peer support.

* It is strongly recommended that people have an understanding of the basics of WRAP before attending this training.

Who is Eligible?
Anyone is welcome at this training. It is specifically designed for people who are currently working with peer run programs, peer groups and/or peer programs that exist in combination with other mental health services.

Classes are limited to just 18 participants in order to facilitate lots of interaction. The registration fee is $1,100, which covers all materials for the class. Refreshments and lunches are provided. Travel related expenses are extra and are the responsibility of the participants. The text is WRAP and Peer Support.