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The Wellness Recovery Action Plan (developed by Mary Ellen Copeland), or WRAP as it is popularly known, is quickly becoming a favorite wellness and recovery tool around the country. WRAP is being implemented into mental health programming in numerous places by state and county entities as well as individual organizations and mental health consumers themselves. A structured system for monitoring distressing and troubling symptoms or experiences, WRAP helps individuals develop strategies or action plans to deal more productively with these experiences.

WRAP is an individually developed wellness tool that encourages individuals to take personal responsibility for their recovery and work toward developing a wellness-oriented lifestyle. WRAP is not just a tool for mental health recovery. WRAP has also been demonstrated to be useful for dealing with chronic medical issues, making other important life changes, and successfully accomplishing personal goals in one’s life.

Introduction to the Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP)	1 Day Session
$900.00 per session, plus travel costs and cost of
Copeland’s WRAP book – limited to 50 participants This session reviews the key concepts for mental health recovery (hope, personal responsibility, education, self-advocacy, and support) and walks participants through the different components of WRAP. All sections of WRAP development (Wellness Toolbox, Daily Maintenance List, Triggers, Early Warning Signs, When Things Are Breaking Down, Crisis and Post Crisis Plans) are thoroughly reviewed. This is a very interactive presentation with the facilitators encouraging group participation throughout. Individual participants will have the opportunity to begin the development of their own WRAP. Participants receive a copy of Mary Ellen Copeland’s book, Wellness Recovery Action Plan (Peach Press, 1997).
Audience: all stakeholder groups (consumers, family members, provider staff, administrative staff).

Developing a Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP)	2 Day Session
$1750.00 per 2 day session, plus travel costs and cost of
Copeland’s WRAP book – limited to 50 participants This session reviews the key concepts for mental health recovery (hope, personal responsibility, education, self-advocacy, and support) in more depth than the one day session and walks participants through the different components of WRAP. All sections of WRAP development (Wellness Toolbox, Daily Maintenance List, Triggers, Early Warning Signs, When Things Are Breaking Down, Crisis and Post Crisis Plans) are thoroughly reviewed. Additionally, this workshop presents and discusses other topics important in mental health recovery (including but not limited to, self-esteem, peer support, work related issues, trauma, living space and lifestyle). This is a very interactive presentation with the facilitators encouraging group participation throughout. Individual participants will have the opportunity to begin the development of their own WRAP. Participants receive a copy of Mary Ellen Copeland’s book, Wellness Recover ction Plan (Peach Press, 1997). This two-day session is the training pre-requisite for attending the WRAP Facilitator Training described below.
Audience: consumers, though it is open to all stakeholder groups.

Wellness Recovery Action Plan Facilitator Training (WRAP)	5 Day Training
$800.00 per participant, plus travel costs - limited to 20 participants
The WRAP Facilitator Training program is an intensive five day training designed for individuals who have experienced the Mental Health Recovery Education Curriculum designed by Mary Ellen Copeland, and who have developed and are using a Wellness Recovery Action Plan in their own lives (the two day session above meets the training pre-requisite). This program teaches consumers the skills necessary to become Copeland Mental Health Recovery Education Curriculum and WRAP Group facilitators. The WRAP Facilitator Training program focuses on all aspects of successful preparation for implementing the Copeland Mental Health Recovery Education curriculum and WRAP groups. Training participants receive the Mental Health Recovery Education Curriculum Manual (including WRAP) developed by Mary Ellen Copeland, as well as a CD-ROM complete with teaching material in the format of power point presentations and overhead projection slides. Individual participants will complete a brief application to certify they meet the pre-requisite training and experience criteria. Note: This criterion is the standard set by Mary Ellen Copeland for WRAP group facilitation.
Target Audience: consumers, though it is open to all stakeholder groups.