Personal Responsibility - No one can "make" you get well; you have to take responsibility for your illness and for your plan to recover in order to recovery.
Education -Learning as much as you can about your illness, possible treatments, and recovery-oriented information.
Self-Advocacy - Learning how to make your needs and requests known.
Support - Finding and getting support from the right people.
WRAP assists consumers in developing an individualized plan that addresses:
Wellness - What can I do, and what do I already do to keep myself healthy?
Symptom monitoring and response - Recognizing my symptoms, learning to predict when they are getting worse, and determining what I can do to manage them.
Personal crisis response plan - What works for ME to cope well in a crisis.
Consumers leave the training with a PERSONALIZED written plan.
WRAP was developed by Mary Ellen Copeland, a nationally recognized leader in Mental Health Recovery. It is a FREE five-week, one day per week training that is offered in small groups and taught by recovering people who have gone through the class and the facilitator training. Each recovering person will take home a personal WRAP plan in a three-ring binder. Sessions are offered in Salem, Lisbon, and East Liverpool.
Ten Columbiana County Recovery leaders are trained WRAP facilitators. WRAP is offered in both a two-day format and in weekly format. Rolling WRAP is offered in weekly sessions and offeres ongoing support for people in using their WRAP plans.