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Wellness Recovery Action Plan®
12/8/2009

Wellness Recovery Action Plan® (WRAP®)

Janet Wattles Center is very excited to offer you a link to create your own personal online WRAP on their website. The link will continue to be available on the Links page under Resources http://wrap.essentiallearning.com

WRAP works! It has been developed by a group of people who experience mental health challenges. These people learned that they can identify what makes them well and then use their own wellness tools to relieve difficult feelings and maintain wellness. The result has been recovery and long-term stability. Your WRAP program is designed by you in practical, day-to-day terms and holds the key to getting and staying well. It does not necessarily replace traditional treatments and can be used as a compliment to any other treatment options you have chosen.

In developing your own WRAP, you’ll identify the wellness tools that will most benefit you and will learn how to use these tools when needed, every day or when you have particular feelings or experiences. WRAP will help you monitor and relieve uncomfortable and distressing feelings and behaviors and identify your best course of action. WRAP planning also includes Crisis Planning (an Advance Directive) that lets others know how you want them to respond when you cannot make decisions, take care of yourself, or keep yourself safe, and a Post Crisis plan to guide you through the often difficult time when you are healing from a crisis.

WRAP is designed and managed by you and is designed to:

· decrease and prevent intrusive or troubling feelings and behaviors

· increase personal empowerment

· improve quality of life

· assist you in achieving your own life goals and dreams.

Users accessing this link will be able to purchase Build Your Own WRAP for a one-time charge of $15.00. They will have unlimited, life-time access to their WRAP plan and they will be subject to the privacy policy and terms of use stated on the website.

Our Mission: Improving lives by providing solutions through high-quality, efficient and effective mental health services and education.

Janet Wattles Center

526 West State Street - Rockford, IL 61101

475 Southtowne Drive - Belvidere, IL 61008

phone: 815-968-9300

fax: 815-968-5314

TDD: 815-968-2648

Mildred Berry Center

8616 Northern Avenue - Rockford, IL 61107

phone: 815-332-8003

fax: 815-332-6090