Speakers & Consultations
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Several highly qualified Copeland Center educators are available
to work with you to meet your specific needs for:
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keynote speaker or presenter
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a training seminar or workshop
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a package of services to help you develop recovery and WRAP
expertise
You may want to co-sponsor the event with one or more groups.
We recommend that you contact us at least three months in advance.
Training seminars include:
Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Advance Directives
- Building a Circle of Support
- Changing Negative Thoughts to Positive
- Crisis Planning
- Developing a Wellness Lifestyle
- Developing Recovery Resources and Tools
- Mental Health Recovery
- Peer Support
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- Post Crisis Planning
- Self Esteem
- Self-Advocacy
- Suicide Prevention
- Trauma Issues
- Wellness Recovery Action PlanT (WRAP)
- Work Related Issues
- Understanding the Key Concepts of Recovery
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Copeland Center Trainers, Speakers & Consultants
Alan C. McNabb
Alan is a recovery skills trainer, researcher, mental health advocate
and educator. He specializes in the successful management of psychiatric
symptoms. He personally has battled with manic-depression for over
20 years and has been extensively trained in the work of Mary Ellen
Copeland.
Alan says that Mary Ellen gave him the hope that people with psychiatric
disorders do get well, can stay well and can live happy and productive
lives. This was a revelation; it was light at the end of a very
long tunnel, a simple message and one he knew he could spread. His
primary work since has focused on spreading that message of hope
and recovery to those that struggle with mental illness and to those
that care about them.
Carol Bailey Floyd
Carol is an enthusiastic presenter who enjoys helping others discover
the positive and often life-changing benefits of the Wellness Recovery
Action PlanT. She believes that the WRAP system is accessible, friendly,
practical, workable, and empowering. Carol has traveled around Ohio
and into Indiana and Pennsylvania giving WRAP overviews and workshops.
Carol received her master level and other trainings from Mary Ellen
Copeland. She is a facilitator for the Akron Area Depression and
Bipolar Support Alliance's support group and is a co-facilitator
for the St. Thomas Hospital Aftercare support group. Carol is on
the Summa Behavioral Health Advisory Board, which is affiliated
with their psychiatric unit. She is a member of Ohio Advocates for
Mental Health and did a presentation for their yearly conference
on WRAP. Stress management, journaling, fairy gardening, and garden
journaling are some of the other presentations that Carol gives.
She is the founder and facilitator of the Laughing Club of Northeast
Ohio.
Carol participated as a leader at the recent State of Ohio WRAP
Facilitator and Master Facilitator week long training sponsored
by the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Depression Bipolar Support
Alliance - Ohio.
Erica Buffington
Erica Buffington has been actively involved in mental health wellness
and recovery for 14 years. She has given presentations in the U.S.
and Canada on wellness, recovery and the WRAP and has conducted
facilitator training sessions. Audiences have included individuals
who self-identify, family members and professionals. She has coordinated
WRAP activities through the Mental Health Consumer/Survivor Network
of MN. In addition to her activities in the wellness, recovery and
WRAP areas, Erica has co-authored a curriculum on the elimination
of seclusion and restraint and continues to provide assistance to
the Mental Health Consumer/Survivor Network (CSN) through grant
writing, curriculum development and training of the CSN staff.
Jane Winterling
Jane is the Recovery Education Coordinator for Vermont Psychiatric
Survivors. She works throughout the state of Vermont coordinating
WRAP classes and supervising Recovery Educators who teach those
classes. She works with the Vermont Department of Mental Health
as a peer advocate regarding the implementation of new mental health
programming in the state. She is responsible for the idea of WRAP
and has worked closely with Mary Ellen Copeland on various projects.
After suffering a major depression she found work in an inpatient
setting. After 17 years as a Mental Health Worker and Behavioral
Technician, she worked as a Case Manager for a community mental
health agency. She has used WRAP for years to manage her own depression.
Jane has been married for 22 years and is the mother of three.
She enjoys a variety of crafts, hiking and backpacking, yoga, and
Native American spirituality.
Ken Braiterman
Ken doesn’t talk about recovery--he proves it is possible
and demonstrates what it looks like every time he tells his story.
Consumers leave believing they can recover too. Family members leave
with renewed determination to stick by their loved ones even in
the face of setbacks. Mental health professionals leave believing
recovery is for everyone, even the “really sick ones,”
and knowing more about what they can do that helps and hurts their
clients’ recovery.
Geoff Souther, acting director of the New Hampshire Division of
Behavioral Health (whose first job was at a state psychiatric hospital
in 1966), said, “The most important new development I’ve
seen is not medication or technology. It’s the hope created
by the recovery movement. And the best example of that is the eight
years I’ve known Ken and the empowerment movement he led.”
Ken’s recovery journey started in 1975 and at one point he
was homeless. A remarkable trick of mind kept Ken alive through
rapid mood swings, rage, suicidal impulses, and long sieges of despair.
By 2004, Ken had done one-on-one peer support, taught Wellness
and Recovery groups, consulted on recovery and trauma with Dartmouth
Psychiatric Research Center and other mental health professionals,
trained people to tell their recovery stories, and served four years
as chair of the state consumer advocacy council.
Ken offers presentations to large and small groups about hope and
recovery, WRAP, public and personal advocacy, trauma and mental
illness, and mental illness, creativity and the artist.
Nanette Larson
Nanette, Director of Consumer Services Development for the Illinois
DHS/Division of Mental Health, has a BA in psychology and religion
from Illinois Wesleyan University. She has a broad range of experience
working in social service, child welfare and mental health.
Nanette has spent the past five years providing leadership and
consultation to further the development of a recovery-oriented service
delivery system within the public mental health system. She is a
nationally recognized leader in the mental health consumer recovery
movement and has provided numerous presentations to diverse audiences
on recovery, spirituality, and related topics.
Her passion for recovery comes from her personal experience of
recovery from mental illness, and her message is one of hope for
all whose lives are affected by these conditions.
Sharon Kuehn
Sharon is an energetic and engaging Wellness and Recovery Trainer,
trained by Mary Ellen Copeland, She uses WRAP to manage her own
psychiatric symptoms and maintain balance while leading a full and
satisfying life. Because of her deep commitment to her own recovery,
her delivery is heartfelt and powerful.
In addition to teaching WRAP throughout the state of California
for the Department of Mental Health over the past 5 years, Sharon
has done pioneering work implementing WRAP and Recovery in a complex
County Mental Health System of Care. A change agent in her county’s
Office for Consumer Empowerment, she actively promotes Recovery
Training and Education, the employment of consumers at all levels
of service provision and administration, and other re-designs to
generate a mental health system that actualizes the Recovery Vision.
In this capacity, Sharon’s innovative work includes implementing
a WRAP Support Program which employs trained consumers as Recovery
Specialists, creating both a widely recognized Supportive Education
Program and a Consumer-Provider Training Program which use WRAP
as the central tool, developing Workplace WRAP Groups and Co-worker
Support Plans with groups of consumer-providers, and collaborating
with Crisis and Hospital staff to devise a Wellness Recovery Crisis
Plan for the Medical Charts.
Sharon serves as Bay Area Director of the California Network of
Mental Health Clients. She is pursuing a Masters degree in Organizational
Systems at the Saybrook Graduate School and Research Institute.
Sharon joyfully speaks her truth: people and systems can and do
recover!
Walter Hudson
After years of depression following an oilfield accident and traumatic
brain injury, a friend told Walter Hudson about WRAP. Walter took
an online correspondence course and his depression disappeared as
he developed his own WRAP. That worked so well for him that he decided
to become a WRAP Facilitator and then a trainer of facilitators.
He is now actively teaching WRAP in workshops and seminars.
Walter holds a Master’s Degree in Adapted Physical Education
from the University of Akron. There he introduced, developed and
taught the only Adult Adapted Self-defense Course for Visually Impaired
Adult Students. He also established Advocates for Mental Health
of Wayne and Holmes counties in Ohio, a nonprofit corporation. He
serves as Secretary of the Ohio Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance
(DBSA) and serves on the Ohio Community Support Planning Council.
In 2004, Bob Taft, Governor of the State of Ohio, recognized Walter
for his volunteer efforts to the Ohio Department of Mental Health:
"Your unique experiences and perspective have informed state
staff and helped to improve the quality of Ohio's public mental
health service delivery system."
BJ North
BJ has worked in the fields of mental health and drug and alcohol
for more than a decade. She continues to enhance her knowledge in
these areas through education, self-help teachings and various projects
including her current work as a consultant with various community
agencies. She is considered one who builds bridges across uncommon
grounds such as; businesses to community, individuals to community
resources and agencies to consumers. She teaches the importance
and effectiveness of communicating with one another in the spirit
of mutual respect.
BJ is Director of Peer Support and Training for Mental Health Client
Action Network (MHCAN). She serves on the Board of Directors of
the Diversity Center of Santa Cruz. She teaches and provides training
in WRAP, Peer Support, language and community integration. She works
with numerous agencies and individuals including Community Support
Services, Diversity Center, Community Connections, MHCAN, Santa
Cruz County Mental Health, California Institute of Mental Health,
Santa Cruz County Jail, Cabrillo Community College, Fresno State
University, University of CA Santa Cruz, homeless individuals, friends,
family, colleagues, therapists, psychologists and doctors.
She is pre-licensed for her State Drug and Alcohol Certification
(CADAAC) and is presently working towards her MBA.
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