(Submitted by National Alliance on Mental Illness)
Cultivate a mental health action plan with us. The Wellness Recovery Action Plan or WRAP, is a free educational course, for adults with a mental illness, that helps to develop a self-designed prevention and wellness strategy. It does not replace traditional treatments, but can be used as a compliment to any other treatment options.
The WRAP class will be offered through NAMI Wood County, Thursday, June 21, and Friday, June 22, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. You design your WRAP program in practical, realistic terms, and it holds the key to getting and staying well. Through this course, you will learn to decrease and prevent intrusive or troubling feelings and behaviors, increase your personal empowerment and improve your overall quality of life. The course will guide you through the process of developing a Crisis Plan. This kind of proactive advanced planning keeps you in control, even when it seems like things are out of control. It will introduce you to Post Crisis Planning so if you have just been through a crisis, let your Post Crisis Plan guide you as you heal.
WRAP is studied significantly in rigorous research projects and is listed in the National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices. WRAP was developed by a group of people who experience mental health and other health and lifestyle challenges. It is now used by people in all kinds of circumstances, and by health care and mental health systems all over the world, to address all kinds of physical, mental health and life issues.
Mary Ellen Copeland, PhD, stated, “When the group developed WRAP, I was so impressed that I went home and wrote one for myself. As I began to live WRAP, my life changed dramatically. Over time I felt better and better and better. WRAP is a way of life for me—a great life.”
WRAP consists of five key recovery concepts that provide the foundation of effective recovery work. These are hope, personal responsibility, education, self-advocacy and support. Learn more about these components by attending the next class.
Please RSVP to 419.352.0626 or info@namiwoodcounty.org
The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) of Wood County provides help and hope by offering educational peer-to-peer or NAMI basics classes, family support groups, seminar programs and fundraising and awareness events, such as their Wood County Fair Booth the Mental Health Conference Series and the annual Walk & Chili Cook-off to “Stand Up to Stigma and Spice Up Your Mental Health”. It is a self-help organization open to people of all ages in the Wood County communities. For more information visit www.facebook.com/namiwoodcounty or www.namiwoodcounty.org.
