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,...
by Alan Marzilli | Jan 11, 2018 | Blog, Children & Teens, Creating & Using Your WRAP, Elements of WRAP, Facilitator Training, For Facilitators, Veterans, Wellness Toolbox, Wellness, Recovery & Lifestyle Topics
As schoolchildren return to classes in the river town of Kearney, Nebraska, their teachers will have new tools to help them grow socially and emotionally. That’s because their teachers attended a professional development day focused on helping children manage trauma,...