Wellness Recovery Action Plan® & Peer Support

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This book is an in-depth guide for peers and care providers who are working on setting up or sustaining mental health recovery and WRAP programs. Copies should be available for easy reference.

Peer Support is about having relationships with others in new and different ways that promote growth, recovery and wellness. WRAP is about living in new and different ways that promote growth, recovery, and wellness. By combining the two, the skills and strategies that we discover in peer support can become part of our WRAP and the skills and strategies we discover as we learn about and use WRAP assist us in peer support.

The combination of WRAP and Peer Support can be very powerful in helping us grow, learn from each other and challenge each other beyond what we thought we were capable of. Using some of the peer support theory, we can begin to use WRAP to help each other discover the context within which we've learned about ourselves, and then help each other develop plans that build a new story.

“This book brings together two of our most visionary thinkers and educators about mental health recovery in an inspiring and innovative partnership. Mary Ellen and Shery’s book demonstrates, in very simple and practical terms, how people and progressive professionals can combine the power of both personal and peer efforts to promote their own self-empowerment and growth. Their work is a must for those looking for the next advance in the emerging research and understanding about what helps people help and take ownership over their own personal process of recovery.”
Harvey Rosenthal

“WRAP and Peer Support Manual: Personal, Group, and Program Development by Copeland and Mead provides an excellent set of tools for people helping each other through difficult times, peer run programs and any advocate interested in learning about developing, or supporting these services. WRAP and Peer Support work together like hand and glove. The text provides an in-depth overview of the principles and practices of peer support and looks at some of the issues and concerns that commonly surround peer support. It offers an overview of Wellness Recovery Action Planning (WRAP) and practical ways peers can help each other individually or in groups to create a personal WRAP plan and to support each other as needed to incorporate those plans day-to-day in their lives. This is a very comprehensive text and an important contribution to the growing tool box for recovery in mental health. "
Laurie Curtis, M.A., C.P.R.P.