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Date: Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Subject: Mental Health Recovery Newsletter
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Register Now for the Upcoming Mental Health Recovery Training!
q Mental Health Recovery Seminar II: Facilitator Training
January 19-23 and May 3-7, 2004
q Implementing Recovery and WRAP in Your Mental Health System February 9-13,
2004
q Using WRAP and Peer Support
March 8-12, 2004
q Mental Health Recovery and WRAP Facilitator Refresher
April 13-15, 2004
To get more information or to register for any of these trainings, go to
www.mentalhealthrecovery.com or request a registration form by e-mail.
Come to Vermont for Mental Health Recovery Seminar II: Facilitator Training
The next Mental Health Recovery and WRAP Facilitator training led by Mary
Ellen Copeland is January 19-23, 2004 and again May 3-7 in Brattleboro, Vermont. In
this training you will work with highly skilled teachers who have years of experience
in this field. You will learn from them, the other participants and several interns,
the values and ethics that guide mental health recovery work, and how to 1.) lead
interactive groups in developing Wellness Recovery Action Plans and other mental
health recovery topics, 2.) share information in ways that make it easy for people to
understand, even people who are struggling with very intrusive symptoms, 3.) motivate
others to take back control of their lives and make their lives the way they want them
to be, and 4.) how to begin to integrate mental health recovery into your health care
system. Combining WRAP and peer support initiatives will also be included in this
training.
As a Mental Health Recovery and WRAP facilitator, you will become part of an
ever expanding network of mental health recovery facilitators that now numbers in the
thousands. Interest in this work continues to grow as people become more and more
committed to programs and initiatives that are focused on hope, empowerment, self
determination, recovery and wellness. This focus is right for those of us who are
working to reclaim our lives. It is also right for agencies and systems who are
dedicated to assisting people in the wellness process, and who are being forced to
provide services at the least cost possible.
Prerequisites for the training include having a basic understanding of mental
health recovery and WRAP. You can get this basic understanding by attending one of
the thousands of WRAP and recovery groups being held around the country or by taking
the Mental Health Recovery Correspondence Course. For more information on the
Correspondence Course, go to the website www.mentalhealthrecovery.com or e-mail
[EMAIL PROTECTED] also get it. If you don't have success there, contact my office.
People have successfully secured the funding to attend this training through:
1.) their State Department of Mental Health, 2.) state offices of consumer affairs or
statewide organizations of people who have used services, 2.) consumer operated
services, 3.) vocational rehabilitation, 4.) groups that serve people with
disabilities, 5.) local or regional mental health agencies and organizations, 6.)
churches and other local organization and 7.) family members and friends. You may
need to reach out to several different funding sources. If you are having difficulty
with securing funds, e-mail my office and I can send you a hand-out on how to find
funds.
Theses courses fill up early so make your plans soon. The cost of this seminar
is $975, including the Facilitator Training Manual. Add your travel and personal
expenses. As soon as we receive your registration, we will send you an informational
packet on travel arrangements and other details.
Register for this training at the website www.mentalhealthrecovery.com.
Implementing Recovery and WRAP in Your Mental Health System
February 9-13 at META Services in Phoenix, AZ
Sponsored by META Services Recovery Education Center and West Virginia Mental Health
Consumers Association in collaboration with Mary Ellen Copeland
Join us for an exciting week to learn from agencies from across the United States who
have made 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's 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...
And become part of a national support network that will provide continued consultation
and support for your implementation during the year following the workshop.
Workshop Agenda (subject to change)
Day 1 Introduction to Recovery-oriented services.
Overview of Recovery Education Center WRAP and other recovery programs.
Day 2 More examples of WRAP and other recovery programs.
Day 3 Developing a peer workforce.
Designing your recovery-oriented program.
Day 4 Designing your recovery-oriented program continued and individual and group
consultation and feedback.
Day 5 Wrap-up and developing a plan for ongoing consultation. (half day ending at
noon)
Workshop Faculty
Lori Ashcraft, Ph.D. Executive Director, Recovery Education Center, META Services.
With over 30 years providing mental health services, Dr. Ashcraft has directed the
development of WRAP and other recovery-oriented programs throughout the Phoenix
metropolitan area with over 400 WRAP and other wellness classes taught each month by
trained peer facilitators at over 15 locations.
Eugene Johnson, CISW. President/CEO and founder of META Services, Mr. Johnson has
implemented a vision of recovery-oriented services that has transformed the agency's
programs by employing over 100 mental health consumers as providers and educators in
all META programs.
Cost: $975.00
Register for this training at the website www.mentalhealthrecovery.com
Using WRAP and Peer Support Training
Shery Mead with Mary Ellen Copeland
authors of the WRAP and Peer Support Manual: Personal, Group and Program Development
When: March 8-12, 2004 Where: Brattleboro, VT
Peer support centers and programs all over the country are including WRAP groups as
part of their program. At a recent meeting in Washington, the directors of these peer
support programs reported on the positive effects of this connection on both personal
and group recovery process. In order to make that connection possible for more and
more centers and groups, Shery Mead and Mary Ellen Copeland have written a manual,
WRAP and Peer Support Manual: Personal, Group and Program Development. This training
will be based on this manual which is a compilation of the work of these two
well-known leaders in the mental health recovery movement.
Using WRAP and peer support can be a very powerful combination. But what makes doing
WRAP in the context of peer support different than doing it in other contexts? How can
we use the combination of WRAP and peer support to develop alternative ways of
thinking about recovery, wellness, and healthy, mutually transformative relationships?
How can we also use WRAP and peer support to explore issues of conflict, power, trauma
re-enactment, and relational phenomena that keep us stuck in victim, "mental patient"
roles?
When we think of peer support's underlying task as exploring and examining "how we've
come to know what we know," we begin to see that WRAP can become much more than
helping individuals just stay well. In fact, using peer support skills with WRAP can
help people challenge each other move beyond old ways of thinking and old relational
(often hierarchical) dynamics. If used thoughtfully, this combination can offer people
(and whole groups or communities) the opportunity to try out new ways of thinking,
acting, making meaning, and redefining who they can become.
The combination of WRAP and peer support can be incredibly powerful in helping us
grow, learn from each other, and challenge each other beyond what we thought we were
capable of. Using some of the peer support theory, we can begin to use WRAP to help
each other discover the context within which we've learned about ourselves, and then
help each other develop plans that build a new "story."
WRAP and peer support training offers participants a new way of thinking about peer
support, skills for helping people "listen differently," a method for creating
"trauma-informed" peer groups and programs, and finally a new relational approach to
WRAP.
Peer support is about doing our relationships with others in new and different ways
that promote growth, recovery and wellness. WRAP is about doing our life in new and
different ways that promote growth, recovery and wellness. By combining the two, the
skills and strategies that we discover in peer support can become part of our WRAP and
the skills and strategies we discover as we learn about and use WRAP can assist us in
peer support.
Participants can include people who are currently working with peer run programs, peer
groups and/or peer programs that exist in the context of other mental health services
in combination with other mental health services.
The text for this training will be WRAP and Peer Support Manual: Personal, Group and
Program Development.
Register for this training at the website www.mentalhealthrecovery.com
Mental Health Recovery and WRAP Facilitator Refresher
April 13, 14 and 15, 2004 in Brattleboro, Vermont
If you have been teaching Mental Health Recovery and WRAP, you will find that this
three day refresher will teach you new skills and strategies, connect you with others
who are doing work similar to yours, re-energize you, validate the significance of the
good work you are doing and introduce you to the latest thinking on Mental Health
Recovery and WRAP. As an attendee, your ideas and experience will become part of the
body of knowledge that is being developed in the mental health recovery field.
The focus of this refresher will be: 1.) using participatory action research to
evaluate and improve your program, and 2.) integrating WRAP and peer support programs.
In addition there will be ample time for you to work with the instructors and other
group members to find solutions to problems in your program.
The cost of this training is $475 including lunch. You are responsible for your
personal expenses.
Register for this training at the website www.mentalhealthrecovery.com
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