Program Descriptions
Individuals and organizations across the world use WRAP to increase their own and their communities' wellness. Check out these stories of how WRAP is being used by organizations and transforming mental health care.
- A Children's WRAP Initiative in West Virginia
- Mental Health Recovery including Wellness Recovery Action Planning Program Description
- Involuntary Commitment and Recovery: An Innovative Mental Health Peer Support Program
- Focus On Recovery-United, Inc. (FOR-U)
- Enfoque En Recuperación-Unidos, Inc. (FOR-U)
- Sefton Recovery Group Experience and Vision, Merseyside, England
- The Development of Recovery and WRAP in the UK
- WRAP Transformation, Keystone, PA
- Funding WRAP Start-Up, W. V.
- WRAP in Contra Costa County, CA
- WRAP and Growth of Individuals, Great Falls, MT
- Wrappin’ N Wrollin’ in Illinois
- The Power of WRAP as a Transformative Recovery Tool, Toronto, Canada
- Mental Health Recovery and WRAP in an In-Patient Setting by Ken Braiterman
- The Vermont Story by Eldred, D., Brooks, G., Deane, W. and Taylor, M.
Is your organization using WRAP to support recovery and well-being? Please share your story with us- info@mentalhealthrecovery.com
Check out the Mental Health Recovery Newsletter
Free and available quarterly by e-mail or surface mail. It is filled with great resources:
- news about recovery and WRAP
- wellness tools, recovery topics and articles
- information about coming events
From a WRAP Facilitator and Program Director
I can't tell you enough how much WRAP has meant to persons in my area. Our group of 21 facilitators have provided WRAP training to about 200 people. We are still conducting trainings and have more planned. It seems that we have been able to adapt the trainings to fit audiences and time frames that are available. Sometimes the trainings are 1 1/2 hours a week over 8 weeks. Sometimes they are one-to-one over five days while on a crisis unit. One of our favorites has been to do the training over two days for 4 hours each day. I presented a short introduction to WRAP for alcohol and substance abuse counselors recently and they were very excited and wanted to learn more.
This work has given such hope and power to so many. When I am teaching and there are persons in the audience with lived experience, I see it in their eyes, the "finally something makes sense and I can really use" look. One of our trainers shared that a lady came up to her recently after participating in training over a number of weeks and shared that she had been receiving different forms of therapy for 30 years and WRAP was the first thing that had really helped her.
Susan Lang, a person with lived experience, Consumer Affairs Director
Research Findings
- Vermont Recovery Education Project
- Mental Illness Self-Management Through Wellness Recovery Action Planning by Judith Cook, Ph.D.
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Recovery Stories:
Two Dollars and a Glimmer of Hope
By Deb Colvin
"My WRAP is important to me it is my reminder. My reminder that I am a viable and unique individual and that there is nothing wrong with being ME."
Mental Mountain
By Bobbie Gallion
"The most effective skill that I have been learning (and hope to keep improving) is just recognizing the “early warning signs” as they come up. I monitor my moods closely and adjust my activity and commitments accordingly. If I am overwhelmed and becoming over stimulated, I have learned to take the steps necessary to slow down or stop. When that means I need to stay home and avoid people and places, I do. When I’m under-whelmed and under-stimulated I try to do more."