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WRAP Overview

WRAP Overview

by | May 22, 2015 | Blog, Creating & Using Your WRAP, Crisis Plan, Daily Plan, Early Warning Signs, Elements of WRAP, Key Concepts, Post-Crisis Plan, Sample WRAP Plans, Signs that Things are Breaking Down, Stressors & Triggers, Wellness Toolbox, WRAP Publications & Events

The Wellness Recovery Action Plan® or WRAP®, is a self-designed prevention and wellness process that anyone can use to get well, stay well and make their life the way they want it to be. It was developed in 1997 by a group of people who were searching for ways to...

New Study Examines Benefits of Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) for People with Serious Mental Illness

by | May 20, 2015 | Blog, Creating & Using Your WRAP, Crisis Plan, Daily Plan, Early Warning Signs, Elements of WRAP, Facilitator Training, For Facilitators, Implementation & Evidence, Post-Crisis Plan, Stressors & Triggers

Press Release from the American Psychiatric Association – May 31, 2012 Release No. 12-26 [download original  APA Press Release as PDF here] ARLINGTON, Va. (May 31, 2012) — Training in mental illness self-management with WRAP reduced depression and anxiety and...

Vermont Recovery Education Project

by | May 20, 2015 | Blog, Children & Teens, Creating & Using Your WRAP, Crisis Plan, Daily Plan, Developmental Distinctions, Early Warning Signs, Elements of WRAP, Implementation & Evidence, Key Concepts, Mental Health, Post-Crisis Plan, Signs that Things are Breaking Down, Stressors & Triggers, Trauma

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...

Peeling Apart the Onion; My Tool to Stay Alive

by | Feb 4, 2015 | Blog, Children & Teens, Creating & Using Your WRAP, Crisis Plan, Early Warning Signs, Elements of WRAP, Families, Justice Involvement, Post-Crisis Plan, Signs that Things are Breaking Down, Stressors & Triggers

There was a time in my mid 40’s when my depression became so bad that the only way I thought I could feel better was to just die. I suppose it was a way of controlling the uncontrollable when every emotion and every physical pain left me without control and feeling...