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Educational
Opportunities:
Participate in recovery by learning through
best practices including Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP),
B.R.I.D.G.E.S., and Peer Support, as well as through job skills,
daily living skills, computer education, GED classes, and many
more.
About WRAP
WRAP stands for Wellness Recovery Action Plan
WRAP is a self-management and recovery system developed by a group
of people who had mental health difficulties and who were struggling
to incorporate wellness tools and strategies into their lives.
WRAP is designed to:
* Decrease and prevent intrusive or troubling feelings and behaviors
* Increase personal empowerment
* Improve quality of life
* Assist people in achieving their own life goals and dreams.
WRAP is a structured system to monitor uncomfortable and distressing
symptoms that can help you reduce, modify or eliminate those symptoms
by using planned responses. This includes plans for how you want
others to respond when symptoms have made it impossible for you
to continue to make decisions, take care of yourself or keep yourself
safe.
People who are using WRAP say:
* It helps me feel prepared.
* I feel better more often and Im able to improve
the overall quality of my life.
The person who experiences symptoms is the one who develops their
personal WRAP. The person may choose to have supporters and health
care professionals help them create their WRAP.
The WRAP system was developed by people who have been dealing
with a variety of psychiatric symptoms for many years and who
are working hard to feel better and get on with their lives. Mary
Ellen Copeland has shared it with people with other illnesses
and they too believe that it can be easily adapted for use with
other conditions.
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