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Vermont Recovery Education Project

Vermont Psychiatric Survivors, Inc., and the Vermont Department of Developmental and Mental Health Services Introduction In August of 1995, the Commissioner of the Department of Developmental and Mental Health Services (DDMHS) established a programmatic priority for...

Sefton Recovery Group Experience and Vision, Merseyside, England

For and on behalf of Sefton Recovery Group Network, Merseyside, England With the support of Piers Allott; from the outset and throughout; National Fellow for Recovery, Care Services Improvement Partnership, England: This piece describes the development of Sefton...

Listening for the Untold Story

The last article I wrote on Listening Differently involved ‘listening from a position of not knowing.’ In this short piece I talked about listening with the intention of curiosity and wonder. In this next piece I’d like to focus on listening for the untold story which...

The WRAP Story – Origins and Healing

When I think about where WRAP came from, my thoughts go back in time, much further than I thought they would go. They go back in time to when I was a very little girl, eight years old, lonely and frightened, as a nurse with lots of keys unlocked numerous heavy doors,...