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Upcoming WRAP Classes
PSO offers free Wellness Recovery Action Plan® (WRAP) courses year-round.
What is WRAP? See “About WRAP” below.
Current WRAP course:
Next WRAP course to be announced. If you are interested in this 10 week program, please register with Sonja @ 613-567-4379, ext 24.
WRAP is a self-managed recovery planning process developed by a group of people who have mental health difficulties and who learned to incorporate wellness tools and strategies into their lives. Designed to decrease and prevent troubling feelings and behaviours, increase personal empowerment, improving the quality of life and assist people in achieving their own goals and dreams.
Family WRAP
This 2 hour, eight week long program begins on May 23rd to July 11th, 2013 @ 6:30 pm in room 215.
If you are interested in learning more, please contact Suzanne @ 613-567-4379, ext 32.
Has someone in close to you been diagnosed with a mental illness? Do you wonder how to help this person? Is your concern and care for others leaving you with little time or energy to care for yourself?
Family WRAP is a practical self-help recovery education series focused on: gaining control in your own life through self-care and understanding of self-care for the loved one; gaining a sense of control in the family as a unit and family self-care, understanding recovery concepts and sharing resources tools and strategies.
Other Area WRAP Courses
Mood Disorders Ottawa (613-526-5406)
Royal Ottawa Hospital (613-722-6521 x6770)
CMHA Ottawa Branch (613-731-7791 x173)
Ottawa Salus (613-729-0123)
Montfort Hospital (613-746-4621)
CMHA East – Cornwall Branch (1-613-933-5845)
Prescott-Russell ACT Team Casselman (1- 613-764-5464)
Pembroke ACT Team (1-613-732-3675)
NOTE: Some of the above WRAP programs are only open to clients of that particular agency.
ABOUT WRAP
The Wellness Recovery Action Plan® (WRAP®) has been used by thousands of people as a guide to manage mental health challenges and get more out of life. WRAP is a structured plan developed by YOU. It is a system that you devise for yourself that helps you work through challenges or life issues. People who are using WRAP say:
“It helps me feel prepared.”
“I feel better more often and I’m able to improve the overall quality of my life.”
WRAP was developed by Mary Ellen Copeland based on her own lived experience and that of hundreds of consumer-survivors she interviewed. WRAP provides a framework from which a person can create a written plan of action to deal with symptoms and difficult times. It is designed to complement a person's recovery rather than replace other therapies.
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
Key Recovery Concepts of WRAP
* Hope
* Personal responsibility
* Education
* Self-advocacy
* Support
WRAP Includes:
* Wellness toolbox
* Daily maintenance plan
* Identifying triggers and an action plan
* Identifying early warning signs and an action plan
* Signs that things are breaking down and an action plan
* Crisis planning
* Post crisis planning
* Recovery Topics
The course and training materials are free. If you wish to explore this means of recovery, created by fellow consumer/survivors, please call early to register as class size is limited.
To learn more about WRAP? Visit the Copeland Center Website at
Copeland Center
For info on WRAP in the Ottawa/Champlain Region or to start a WRAP group:
Contact 613-567-4379 x24 or psychsurvivors@gmail.com