by Mary Jaffe | Jul 12, 2018 | Blog, Elements of WRAP, Facilitator Training, For Facilitators, News, Stressors & Triggers, Veterans, WRAP Publications & Events
In 2007, Mary Ellen Copeland released WRAP for Veterans and People in the Military. Now, 11 years later, Human Potential Press is pleased to announce that a brand-new book, WRAP for Veterans, Active Service Members, and Military in Transition, is now available for...
by Amanda Aykanian | May 23, 2018 | Blog, Creating & Using Your WRAP, Crisis Plan, Daily Plan, Early Warning Signs, Elements of WRAP, Facilitator Training, For Facilitators, News, Post-Crisis Plan, Stressors & Triggers, WRAP Publications & Events
Our last few newsletters have announced changes to WRAP’s branding and content updates to key resources. We have refreshed our visual identity, which includes a new logo and a look and feel that will extend through our books and other materials. We are updating... by Kristen King | May 22, 2018 | Blog, Facilitator Training, For Facilitators, Wellness, Recovery & Lifestyle Topics
I want to share with you the WRAP Values and Ethics because the development of these values and ethics was a peer support process. These values and ethics were not a mandate from some higher authority, but rather evolved over time as groups of peers considered and...
by Darby Penney | May 17, 2018 | Blog, Creating & Using Your WRAP, Crisis Plan, Daily Plan, Early Warning Signs, Elements of WRAP, For Facilitators, Key Concepts, News, Post-Crisis Plan, Signs that Things are Breaking Down, Stressors & Triggers, Wellness Toolbox, Wellness, Recovery & Lifestyle Topics, WRAP Publications & Events
Wellness Recovery Action Plan, known in the WRAP community as the Red Book, was recently revised, 20 years after it was first published. This involved a challenging balancing act: preserving WRAP’s essential structure, its key recovery concepts, and its values and...
by Katie Wilson | May 10, 2018 | Blog, Creating & Using Your WRAP, Elements of WRAP, For Facilitators, Implementation & Evidence, Wellness Toolbox, Wellness, Recovery & Lifestyle Topics, WRAP Publications & Events
I always learn a lot from co-facilitating WRAP groups and being in rooms with other WRAP Facilitators and people gathering to enhance their own wellness through connection and self-discovery. One experience that I’ll never forget is a time when another WRAP...
by Alan Marzilli | Mar 8, 2018 | Blog, Creating & Using Your WRAP, For Facilitators
I recently read that mental health workers and advocates in British Columbia bungee jump from a bridge each year to raise funds that support WRAP groups and hiring peer support workers. Sounds extreme, especially when you consider that they do this in February,...