What is a Wellness Recovery Action Plan® (WRAP®) and how do I use it?
The Wellness Recovery Action Plan®, or WRAP®, is an evidence-based system that is used world-wide by people who are dealing with mental health and other kinds of health challenges, and by people who want to attain the highest possible level of wellness. It was developed by a group of people who have a lived experience of mental health difficulties; people who were searching for ways to resolve issues that had been troubling them for a long time. WRAP® involves listing your personal resources, your Wellness Tools, and then using those resources to develop Action Plans to use in specific situations which are determined by you. WRAP® is adaptable to any situation. WRAP® also includes a Crisis Plan or Advance Directive.
WRAP® is universal ― it is for anyone, any time, and for any of life's challenges.
Click here to find out more about getting started with WRAP®
What's New?
More Research That Proves WRAP® Works
New Website, "Healthy You Now" features WRAP
Jessica Somers' Quilted WRAP Plan
WRAP® listed by National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices
Facilitators' Stories --- Facilitators on Facilitating
NJ. Medical Center receives grant to use WRAP® model for Diabetes Patients
Welcome to the Wellness Toolbox!
WRAP AROUND THE WORLD CONFERENCE
Media Corner
Videos and Recorded Webinars 
Photo Galleries
New!
My WRAP Crisis Plan
Pocket Brochure
This colorful brochure offers a very convenient way to carry your WRAP Crisis Plan with you. In the event of a crisis, it's easy to share it with supporters and care providers.
Click on the image for more info
Resources:
Check out these
E-Learning Courses:
WRAP® One on One
Designed for people who are helping others develop WRAP® plans. Learn how to guide, facilitate, advise, support, and encourage another person (patient, client, peer, friend, family member) as they develop WRAP® plans using the Values and Ethics that have evolved as people have used this mental health recovery innovation.
Values and Ethics:
Check List and Worksheet
See what Values and Ethics drive Mental Health Recovery and WRAP® Facilitators and what to expect when working with one.
Training:
Become a WRAP® Facilitator
Interested in becoming a mental health recovery educator? Spend 5 days with Copeland Center staff in a training which is designed to help you become a powerful change agent as a recovery educator. Learn about the Copeland Center.
WRAP Happenings
Thank You for attending the "WRAP Overview" webinar.
For those of you who could not attend, you can download the Powerpoint slides from the presentation or you can go to the WRAP Channel and see the recorded webinar.
Beads of HOPE 
[Consumer/Survivor Development Project - Ontario, Canada]
Beads of Hope, help remind us that we have travelled and overcome many things in our journey to recovery.
Just as cancer patients pick beads that represent needles or cancer treatments, we create Beads of HOPE.
Each bead is hand picked, and represents a time or significant moment during a person’s recovery. A bead could represent a time in hospital, or a dark depressive time that you pushed through, a medication change, or a treatment.
The persistence and resiliency that each Bead of Hope represents, can help remind you of your strength and courage. This is a wellness tool that you create and wear as a symbol of hope and Recovery. It can be made into a bracelet, (Wrist WRAP) or a key chain.
WRAP Featured on new Website
"Healthy You Now" , a new website by Tonya Lewis [wife of SpikeLee], has a feature on WRAP called, "Getting all WRAPed Up", by Jennifer Barber
Click here to read the article.
Quilted WRAP Plan by Jessica Somers
Jessica Somers is a Peer Support Worker who took the WRAP course almost 2 years ago through the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority in Vancouver BC, Canada.
Jessica is an avid quilter/crafter and would like to share the pictures of her completed WRAP project that she was inspired to make after taking the class. It is very unusual, quite beautiful, and a true labor of love.
Click on the link to see the rest of this beautiful work.
http://www.oddcatstitches.com/2012/03/my-version-of-fabric-book.html
Upcoming Webinar:
Thursday May 24, 2012 2-3 pm EDT
Join Mary Ellen Copeland as she explores how people use WRAP daily as their guide to recovery and wellness. She will talk about the importance of hope, personal responsibility, education, self- advocacy, support, and problem solving in using WRAP. In addition she will share ideas for enhancing each section of WRAP, from the Wellness Toolbox to the Post Crisis Plan, so that it becomes a truly powerful personal guide. Her presentation will include stories that she has gathered from people around the world who use WRAP; stories that illustrate the challenges of using WRAP, and the power of WRAP in helping people to improve the quality of their daily lives and going on to meet their own goals and dreams.
Click here to register: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/778361768
NEW BOOK!
WRAP for the Effects of Trauma
by Mary Ellen Copeland
I have just pu
blished a new book called “WRAP for the Effects of Trauma”.
I have always suspected that the mental health challenges I have faced in my life, and those that affect so many other people, were actually caused by the “bad things” or trauma that they had experienced.
This book contains lots of information and examples that are specific to addressing issues related to trauma, information from people like you, who are working on their wellness and recovery.
Wishing you a rewarding recovery journey,
Mary Ellen Copeland
Click here for more information and to order
Check out a Preview of the Living WRAP Video
WRAP® listed by National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices
Click here for answers to your questions about Evidence-Based Practice
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We love hearing about your Wellness Tools.
Click on the toolbox to read what you have shared with us.
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Mary Ellen Copeland and her staff cannot address personal mental health problems and issues. We care very much about your concerns but we must focus our efforts on education and resource development. For more information on how to get help for yourself or the people you are supporting, please use the resources on this website.
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