This course is for anyone who wants to learn about WRAP® and begin to incorporate it into their life to improve personal wellness and achieve an improved quality of life. The course is designed to be highly interactive and encourage participation and sharing from all present. The course also lays a broad foundation for building a peer workforce. Successful completion of this course fulfills the prerequisites for being trained as a WRAP Facilitator.
Learning Objectives:
1. Apply the Five Key Concepts of Recovery to their everyday life to improve their quality of life.
2. Identify tools and action plans to counter the negative effects of life challenges and improve responses to disturbing thoughts and feelings to achieve improved states of wellness.
3. Describe the history, foundations and structure of the Wellness Recovery Action Plan®.
This is a Credo of Combat Veterans in reference to comrades who have been wounded or killed on the field of battle. Your presenters, Tammy Thompson and Ren Kramer, are both Veterans and Advanced Level WRAP Facilitators who work for the Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Health Care System as Peer Support Specialists providing WRAP groups to Veterans.
Learning Objectives:
1. Provide an understanding of the scope of Veteran involvement in today’s Armed Forces and how it relates to their reintegration into society.
2. Provide knowledge of how the above situation is both the same and different for the intergenerational groups of Veterans receiving services in today’s VA.
3. Participants will be able to identify the demographics and trends of the Veterans receiving WRAP services.
4. Participants will demonstrate understanding of the role of mental health Peer Support Specialists in the VA and the applicability of WRAP as a recovery-oriented intervention to for use by this workforce.
5. Participants will understand the benefit of implementing WRAP in various mental health settings, including Acute Inpatient, Outpatient Clinics, Outreach in the Community, and as a treatment option for Veteran Justice Outreach.
6. Participants will be able to understand and describe next steps of WRAP in the VA system.
Volunteering is a discussion and exploration of how incorporating Volunteering into one’s life is an effective, productive, and fun way to engage and re-focus strategy (or Wellness Tool ) for life.
Learning Objectives:
1. discuss what volunteering is and is not
2. explore how volunteering supports WRAP and vice versa
3. discover the link with purpose & worth
4.how & where to start volunteering.
In order to improve skills and stay informed regarding effective approaches to WRAP Facilitation, continued learning is imperative. It is a best practice for WRAP Facilitators to attend a refresher course at least once every two years to stay up to date on developments. This course is recommended for WRAP Facilitators to enhance their knowledge and skills with WRAP and to receive updates on implementing WRAP as an evidence-based practice (EBP).
WRAP Facilitator Refresher includes this session on Wednesday, 6/7 and full days on Thursday 6/8 and Friday 6/9.