Facilitator Training Posts

Wellness Recovery Action Planning and Addiction Recovery: Limitless Potential to Heal

  The first three articles in this series explained different ways that people with addictions can use a Wellness Recovery Action Plan. This final installment discusses using WRAP at a systems level and integrating it into addiction treatment and recovery at all...

WRAP 20th Birthday Celebration Webinar Recap

Last Friday, AHP and the Copeland Center co-hosted a webinar to celebrate WRAP’s 20th birthday. I attended this webinar as AHP’s WRAP social media manager, and also as someone fairly new to the broader WRAP community. The experience was educational, and it was...

Part 2: WRAP Empowers Guests at Hacienda of Hope

This article is the second part of a two-part series about the amazing work Hacienda of Hope is doing in California. Read Part 1 here. In Part 1 of this two-part series, we explored the origins of WRAP at Hacienda of Hope in Los Angeles County, California. In Part 2,...

“I Am Them”: Transforming the World Through WRAP

Transformational leaders have an authentic voice. They understand that language helps create reality and that hope is essential for awakening the hero that lives in all of us. Mary Ellen Copeland is such a leader, and I’m honored to have had the opportunity to share...

A Prescription for Success

More than two decades ago, my life was a rollercoaster of manic moods, forced hospitalizations, and medication that nearly cost me my marriage, my children, and my career as a primary school and special education teacher. The last time was the worst. In 1997, I was in...