Welcome to Essential Learning

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• Welcome to Essential Learnings Webinar
• All About WRAP Including an Overview of the
  Research Findings and Values and Ethics
• Presented by
• Mary Ellen Copeland, PhD. with Carol Bailey Floyd
• Demonstration following the presentation of the
• Community Access Site with WRAP Information
  Center
• Presented by
• Sue Erskine, Co-Founder and CEO of Essential
  Learning

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Mental Health Recovery

• Including
• Wellness
• Recovery
• Action
• Planning
• WRAP

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Webinar Agenda

• 1. What is WRAP?
• 2. Values and Ethics of Mental Health Recovery
• and WRAP
• 3. Research Findings that Support WRAP
• 4. Setting up a WRAP-based program
• International
• Regional and Community
• Statewide
• WRAP One on One
• Individuals learning and using WRAP
• 5. Community Access Site and WRAP Information
  Center
• 6. Live Question and Answer Session

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What is WRAP?

• WRAP is a highly individualized, strength
• based, self-determined process to guide
• recovery.
• It can be used
• On its own or to supplement mental health
  services
• For prevention and management

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What is WRAP? (cont.)

• WRAP encourages people to
• Focus away from illness and toward wellness
• Become actively and responsibly engaged in the
  wellness process

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WRAP Overview

• Wellness Toolbox
• Daily Maintenance Plan
• Triggers and Action Plan
• Early Warning Signs and Action Plan

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WRAP Overview (cont.)

• When Things are Breaking Down and Action Plan
• Crisis Plan
• Post Crisis Plan

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Values and Ethics

• There is hope, people can and do get well, stay
  well for long periods of time, and do what they
  want to do with their lives.
• Self determination, personal responsibility,
  empowerment, and self-advocacy are keys to mental
  health recovery and WRAP.

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Values and Ethics (cont.)

• Decisions about care and life are made by the
  person whose life it is and, only if necessary,
  by those people who have been identified by this
  person as their proxy.
• Every person is treated as an equal with
  dignity, compassion, mutual respect, and
  unconditional high regard at all times.

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Values and Ethics (cont.)

• There is unconditional acceptance of each person
  as they are, unique, special individuals,
  including acceptance of diversity with relation
  to culture, ethnicity, language, religion, race,
  gender, age, disability, sexual preference, and
  "readiness" issues.

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Values and Ethics (cont.)

• All efforts are based on the premise that there
  are no limits to recovery.
• All participation in programs, activities and
  initiatives is voluntary.
• It is understood that each person is the expert
  on her or himself.

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Values and Ethics (cont.)

• The focus is on individual strengths and away
  from perceived deficits.
• Clinical, medical and diagnostic language is not
  helpful and is avoided.

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Values and Ethics (cont.)

• The focus is on people working together and
  learning from each other to increase mutual
  understanding, knowledge and promote wellness.
• Programs and initiatives emphasize strategies
  that are simple and safe for anyone, and avoid
  those that may have harmful effects.

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Values and Ethics (cont.)

• Difficult feelings and behaviors are seen as
  normal responses to traumatic circumstances and
  in the context of what is happening and not as
  "symptoms" or a "diagnosis".
• People are encouraged, supported and validated
  in sharing their thoughts, feelings, needs and
  experiences.

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Research Findings that Support WRAP

• Initial Outcomes of a Mental Illness
  Self-Management
• program Based on Wellness Recovery Action
  Planning (at
• the University of Illinois at Chicago)
• Cook, J., Copeland, M.E., Hamilton, M., Jonikas,
  J.,
• Razzano, L., Floyd, C., Hudson, W., MacFarland,
  R, and
• Grey, D.
• Published in Psychiatric Services A Journal of
  the American
• Psychiatric Association, February, 2009 pp.
  246-249.

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Research Findings (cont.)

• Objective
• Examine changes in psychosocial
• outcomes among participants in an
• 8-week peer led, WRAP intervention.

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Research Findings (cont.)

• Methods
• 80 people with serious mental illness
• at 5 sites completed telephone interviews
• at baseline, and one month after the
• intervention.

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Research Findings (cont.)

• Results
• Significant improvement in self-reported
• symptoms, recovery, hopefulness, self-
• advocacy and physical health.
• Those attending 6 or more sessions showed
• greater improvement than those attending
• fewer sessions.

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Research Findings (cont.)

• Conclusions
• Further research is needed.
• Confirmation of the efficacy and effective-
• ness of peer-led self-management has
• the potential to enhance self-determination
• and promote recovery for people with
• psychiatric disabilities.

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Setting Up a WRAP-based Program

• International
• WRAP training is available world-wide.
• WRAP resources are available in many different
• languages.
• WRAP is easily adaptable for cultural
  differences.
• This initiative is increasing over time.
• www.copelandcenter.com

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Setting up a WRAP-based program (cont.)

• Statewide Initiatives
• Mental Health Recovery and WRAP programs
• are available in every state.
• Many states are using it as the cornerstone
• of all mental health recovery programming.
• Others are making it widely available in their
• states through training, sponsoring groups
  and
• e-learning.
• www.copelandcenter.com
• www.mentalhealthrecovery.com

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Setting up a WRAP-based program (cont.)

• Regional and Community
• Nationwide network of WRAP groups with trained
  facilitators
• E-learning availability
• WRAP One on One
• Build Your Own WRAP
• E-learning courses on parts of WRAP
• www.copelandcenter.com
• www.mentalhealthrecovery.com

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Setting up a WRAP-based program (cont.)

• Individuals learning and using WRAP
• E-learning
• Build Your Own WRAP
• Special Edition for Veterans and People in
  the Military
• Online courses
• Books, CD's, DVD's, computer program
• www.mentalhealthrecovery.com

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Community Access Site

• With WRAP Information Center

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• Web-based information resource for consumers,
  family members and community stakeholders
• Allows state or county agencies and provider
  organizations to provide
• Educational opportunities
• Links to community resources
• Tools to enhance recovery
• Access to WRAP resources online
• Provides robust tools for measuring ROI

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Community Access Site Features

• Community Education Center CAS is the only
  community
• resource site that provides free access to a
  comprehensive library
• of interactive online courses on a variety of
  topics including
• General Mental Health
• Addiction, Treatment and Recovery
• Peer Professional Education
• Issues Facing Families
• The Needs of Children and Adolescents
• Living with Mental Illness and Working Toward
  Recovery
• Workforce Skills including Basic Computer
  Training
• Issues Related to Older Adults
• Needs of Returning Veterans

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• Community News Create and post announcements
  about events in your community.
• Resource Finder Site visitors can look up
  national and community resources in categories
  such as treatment, social services, self-help and
  advocacy. National resources are pre-loaded and
  maintained by Essential Learning.
• Newsfeed and Research Center provides a
  searchable index of articles and a newsfeed that
  is updated daily on topics of interest to the
  behavioral health community.
• Discussion Forums Web 2.0 social networking
  tools are customized for CAS including
  communities of practice, blogs, discussion
  groups, Wikis and links to Twitter and Facebook.
  

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• Native Language Translation Google Translate
  is embedded in CAS which allows visitors to
  convert web text to their native language by
  selecting the language of choice from a drop down
  list.
• CEU Center Offers licensed professionals in
  your community continuing education from
  Essential Learnings comprehensive library, the
  best in the industry.
• As an added benefit a percentage of the
  revenue of the courses purchased from your site
  will be provided back to you to offset the cost
  of CAS.
• Legislative Information Allows visitors to
  search for current state bills related to mental
  health, advocacy and topics of interest to
  families and their current legislative status.
  For an optional fee, more comprehensive state and
  federal legislative access is provided.

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Wrap Information Center

• Build Your Own WRAP
• version available for veterans and people in the
  military
• Eight online WRAP Courses
• Exclusive Partnership with Mental Health
• Recovery and Dr.
• Mary Ellen Copeland

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View Community Access Site
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How to Purchase

• CAS with WRAP Information Center
• Annual subscription, one time set-up fee
• Site hosted and supported by Essential Learning
• More cost-effective than Network of Care
  savings back to service
• WRAP courses are available through
• Subscription to Essential Learnings
  Organizational Learning Management System
• Purchase for your own LMS
• Mary Ellen Copelands website -
  www.mentalhealthrecovery.com purchase individual
  courses with a credit card. Bulk discounts are
  available.
• Provide access to Build Your Own WRAP from Your
  website - 15 one time user fee.
• Contact Us at 1-800-729-9198 ext 284 or
  info_at_essentiallearning.com

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Questions??

• Live question and answer session.
• If youre using a telephone, make sure you have
  entered your Audio PIN so your line can be
  unmuted to ask your question live.
• Use the raise your hand feature on your control
  panel to be selected to ask a question.

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Thank You for Joining Us

• One free continuing education credit is available
  for viewing this
• webinar from 3/25-4/25. Follow the directions
  below.
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• Select the course, proceed to checkout, and enter
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  charge for this course.
• You'll have to fill out a short registration
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  Instructions for completing the course can be
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• Essential Learning customers will have this
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• After 4/25 there will be a 10 charge for
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