by Mary Ellen Copeland | May 20, 2015 | Blog, Children & Teens, Creating & Using Your WRAP, Wellness, Recovery & Lifestyle Topics
Individuals and organizations across the world use WRAP to increase their own and their communities’ wellness. Check out these stories of how WRAP is being used by organizations and transforming mental health care. Vermont Blueprint for Heath WRAP in the... by Mary Ellen Copeland | 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... by Mary Ellen Copeland | May 20, 2015 | Blog, Children & Teens, Facilitator Training, Families, For Facilitators, WRAP Programs & Groups
West Virginia has developed a unique initiative for implementing WRAP (Wellness Recovery Action Plan) for children across the state. Conceived and spearheaded by David Sanders, Consumer Affairs Executive Assistant of the West Virginia Mental Health Consumers... by Mary Ellen Copeland | Apr 13, 2015 | Blog, Children & Teens, Creating & Using Your WRAP, Crisis Plan, Daily Plan, Developmental Distinctions, Elements of WRAP, Facilitator Training, For Facilitators, Post-Crisis Plan, Veterans, Wellness, Recovery & Lifestyle Topics
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,... by Mary Ellen Copeland | Feb 4, 2015 | Blog, Children & Teens, Families, Wellness, Recovery & Lifestyle Topics
by Mary Ellen Copeland, Ph.D There is a hard, dark, very murky lump, that aches a bit in the middle of my chest. It is gray, but not the warm, gray of tree trunks or chick-a-dees. It is a foreboding and sinister gray, one that has the capacity to sap my life energy...