Sounds like Shiela would like to be unsubcribed??? At least that is my guess.
Biraj Sheila Gantz wrote: > Ron; please fix it so these messages do not come into my personal email. Thank you. > > Ron Carson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Hello > > ----- > > This is a forwarded message > From: Mary Ellen Copeland > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Tuesday, January 1, 2013 > Subject: Mental Health Recovery Newsletter > > =================Original message text=============== > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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. 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