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Family Member Story Telling Training

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Family Member Story Telling Training (FM-STT) is a FREE recovery-and-resilience-based Training. It recognizes that the stories of Family Members (Parents, Grandparents, Children, Siblings, Partners, Sponsors, Mentors, Faith, Friends, Family of Choice, Support Staff, etc.), play a Vital Role with assisting people who benefit from and contribute to systematic transformation. This Training is open to everyone (18 and older) and offers many helpful tools which encourages the sharing of personal and challenging experiences with others to help inspire and motivate them, along with creating mutual understanding. It also provides vast opportunities to network and share resources, along with being a positive gateway for those who wish to help others through their own life experiences; helps others to navigate through the Behavioral Health System, while supporting families, faith and communities.

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Public Education & Training

DBHIDS is dedicated to promoting healthy behaviors and healthy communities through education and awareness building strategies. DBHIDS has developed a variety of comprehensive and easily accessible online resources and trainings to strengthen awareness of behavioral health tools, services and support available for individuals and families.

  • Healthy Minds Philly
    A virtual resource designed to provide awareness and education on behavioral health issues and to offer helpful information, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Healthy Minds Philly is home to:

    • Behavioral Health Screenings: Quick, free and anonymous online screenings to learn whether you or someone you care about might be experiencing symptoms of behavioral health disorder.
    • Mental Health First Aid (MHFA): A public education program that teaches the skills needed to identify, understand, and respond to signs of behavioral health challenges or crises. First Aid is given until appropriate supports are received.
    • National Depression Screening Day: You keep tabs on your blood pressure, weight, and cholesterol. Why not your emotional well-being? We all could use a check-up from the neck up! That’s why we bring mental health screenings to the community.
    • Mind Your Holidays: As the holidays approach, we know that it could be a difficult time for some people. From the loss of a loved one to the loss of a job, celebrating the beauty of the holidays might not be as easy for some as it is for others.
  • Behavioral Health Training and Education Network
    Designed to support DBHIDS and other human services systems by planning, coordinating, and providing quality learning experiences in Behavioral Health for the entire system, including individuals and their family members, DBHIDS staff members and staff of other service provider organizations.

Prevention & Early Intervention

DBHIDS understands the earlier we intervene with behavioral health issues, the faster we are able to provide professional care as a community. This requires paying attention to social determinants of health, which include the availability of support, experiences of trauma, access to behavioral health care, educational and economic opportunities, and the social and physical environment. We do this by partnering with city agencies including the criminal justice, housing, school, and child welfare systems, as well as the behavioral health treatment system and the general public.

  • Community Response Teams
    Community Response Teams provide community support and crisis response services to communities affected by disasters, violence, or other events which require emotional support and psychoeducation as part of coordinated response effort.
  • Crisis Intervention Team Training
    The Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) is a collaboration between DBHIDS staff, the Philadelphia Police Department, and other stakeholders designed to reduce conflict during encounters between police and community members with mental health challenges. CIT training emphasizes the principles of violence prevention, de-escalation and community collaboration.
  • Infant Toddler Early Intervention Program
    The Philadelphia Infant Toddler Early Intervention Program is an entitlement program for infants and toddlers between the ages of birth to 3 years of age who are eligible. Anyone can make a referral to Early Intervention and all referred children will receive a developmental assessment and many will also receive a multidisciplinary evaluation. All children eligible will be assigned a service coordinator and all Early Intervention Services are delivered at no cost to the family.

Community Engagement

Public education around behavioral health issues is necessary to promote overall health and well-being. Through partnerships with community based agencies and connecting with public leaders, DBHIDS works to promote the health of Philadelphians by supporting initiatives that strengthen individuals, families and communities.

  • Mural Arts/Porch Light Program
    A groundbreaking public art approach to achieving health and wellness in Philadelphia done in collaboration with the City’s Mural Arts Program. Porch Light works closely with communities to uplift public art as an expression of community resilience and a vehicle of personal and community healing.
  • Engaging Males of Color (EMOC) Initiative
    A newly established and targeted initiative designed to address the impact of health, economic and educational disparities experienced by males of color. Its goals are to promote better understanding and awareness of behavioral health challenges, reduce the associated stigma and improve the quality of life for males of color throughout the Philadelphia region.
  • Community Coalition Initiative
    Community Coalition Initiative was designed to better deliver behavioral health services to targeted communities where there might be significant numbers of vulnerable or at-risk individuals. The program has built partnerships with seven coalitions of community-based organizations (CBOs) and licensed behavioral health providers to help reach community members who can most benefit from these programs, support and treatment services.
  • Faith Based Unit
    In 2005, DBHIDS created a Faith-Based Initiative to build partnerships with city churches, mosques, and synagogues to reach members in various faith communities. These coalitions provide another way to connect people with behavioral health and developmental disabilities with needed supports and services.

Cross System Collaboration

Cross-system collaboration is an essential component to achieving overall wellness. Behavioral health settings are not the natural habitat of many community members. DBHIDS supports innovative cross-system collaboration to strengthen the capacity of the workforce to meet the health and wellness needs of people.

  • Tobacco Recovery and Wellness (TRWI) Initiative
    TRWI is a partnership between the Philadelphia Department of Public Health Tobacco Policy and Control Program, University of Pennsylvania’s Comprehensive Smoking Treatment Program, and the Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbilities (DBHIDS) that engages behavioral health providers to incorporate evidence-based tobacco dependence treatment into their clinical and community practice.
  • Homeless Outreach Unit
    DBHIDS supports five agencies, led by Project Home to engage people living on the streets of Philadelphia. The other agencies are Horizon House, SELF Inc., the Mental Health Association of Southeastern PA and Hall Mercer Community Mental Health Center. The majority of the persons they engage are believed to suffer from behavioral health challenges, particularly co-occurring mental health and addiction challenges.

Innovative Treatment Services

DBHIDS recognizes that effective and innovative practices are essential components of a resilience- and recovery-oriented behavioral health system. DBHIDS is committed to ensuring efficient, sustainable, “state-of-the-art” treatments are a part of the array of services and supports available to individuals who need them.

  • The Philadelphia Alliance for Child Trauma Services
    A network of child serving systems and organizations that provides the most effective practices for traumatized youth and their families aimed to increase the number of children who receive the most effective trauma-focused and trauma informed care in Philadelphia.
  • Evidence-based Practice and Innovation Center (EPIC)
    DBHIDS’ Evidence-based Practice and Innovation Center, or EPIC, seeks to advance system-wide efforts to help support the implementation, sustainability and accessibility of behavioral health Evidence-based Practices in Philadelphia.

Family Training & Advocacy Center

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Protecting the Interests of People In Recovery and Their Families

The mission of the Family Training and Advocacy Center (FTAC) is to enhance the quality of care in the behavioral health community. Providing a wide range of activities and initiatives, the work of FTAC is focused on two primary areas:

Education

  • Training mental health professionals, including case managers, residential workers and managed care professionals, on a wide range of issues, with an emphasis on the family perspective.
  • Providing specialized training to government agencies, psychiatrists, social workers and criminal justice officials on topics such as crisis intervention, forensics, system development and other emerging issues
  • Offering education programs and support to family members of people in recovery

Advocacy

  • Provides policy makers and families with updates on legislation that affect the behavioral health system
  • Serves on government committees to advocate for laws and policies that will improve the delivery of behavioral health services and protect the interests of people in recovery

Quick Facts:

  • Focused on advocacy and teaching
  • Support to families and family groups
  • Works with policy makers to improve quality of recovery care
  • Trains behavioral health professionals, law enforcement officials and social workers

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Education and Training Unit

The Department of Behavioral Health & Intellectual disAability Services is committed to informing, inspiring and empowering our communities. To that end we offer training and technical assistance to behavioral health service providers, individuals in recovery, family members and the community at large. Please follow the links below to explore the training opportunities that are available.

  • Behavioral Health Training & Education Network is committed to supporting DBHIDS and other human service systems by planning, coordinating and providing quality learning experiences in Behavioral Health and related topics. Our training audiences include providers and administrators of services, individuals engaged in services, family members and other interested community members
  • CBH Network Development offers all CBH contracted providers a training series on effective tools for Assessment, Treatment Planning and Clinical Documentation. Network Development also offers Technical Assistance to DBHIDS behavioral health service providers.
  • Mental Health First Aid is an in-person training that teaches you how to help people developing a mental illness or in a crisis.
  • Networks for Training and Development, Inc. is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting inclusive communities through quality training, technical assistance, and demonstration for individuals with disabilities, families, organizations, and neighborhoods. We have worked together to have our website reflect these values.
  • Practice Guidelines Trainings are offered monthly at BHTEN or can be requested for provider organizations and tailored to the specific audience by contacting mariadelmar.cabiya@phila.gov.
  • Training Director’s Collaborative is a group of Training Director’s, Managers and Coordinators from Behavioral Health Organizations in Philadelphia who develop curriculum coordinate training and professional development opportunities for behavioral health service staff. We gather to network, share expertise and explore possibilities for collaboration. If you would like to join this group please contact mariadelmar.cabiya@phila.gov.

UR Storytelling Training

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Voices of Hope and Inspiration

Story Telling Training is a FREE resilience and recovery-oriented training recognizing that the stories of individuals, their recovery processes and the experiences of their family members are critical tools in moving system transformation forward.

Story Telling Training offers many helpful tools for sharing personal and challenging experiences in an inspiring, resilience and recovery-oriented way. Story Telling Training is a gateway for those who want to become active stakeholders and change agents throughout the behavioral health system and in their communities at large.

Please contact Shawn Anderson at Sanders.urstorytelling@gmail.com or go to healthymindsphilly.org for the next storytelling training.

To register:

If you would like to register for an upcoming Story Telling Training, please visit eventbrite.com/e/storytelling.

New website information: http://HealthyMindsPhilly.org/Calendar

Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) Training

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Empowering People to Take Control of Their Wellness

The Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP®) is a SAMHSA evidenced based practice self management tool. WRAP has been widely-acclaimed by behavioral health leaders as an effective means to help people reduce the duration and frequency of distressing feelings and troubling behaviors. WRAP® is  a highly individualized plan that helps individuals maintain their overall wellness. The combination of specific responses and wellness tools promotes empowerment and enables people to live their best life. WRAP® also includes a plan that informs supporters on how to assist individuals during a crisis.

DBHIDS offers a comprehensive training program to help people develop a personal WRAP® and facilitate WRAP® groups.  Seminar I: WRAP® and Mental Health Recovery training provides an orientation to WRAP concepts and gives people an opportunity to develop their own WRAP®. Seminar II: WRAP® Facilitator training provides individuals with techniques on to effectively facilitate WRAP and the opportunity to became a certified WRAP® Facilitator. Both programs are offered throughout the year.

For additional information please contact DBHIDS.PeerCulture@phila.gov.

WRAP Trainings and Meetings

Seminar I: WRAP® and Mental Health Recovery Training

Course Description: This two-day course is for anyone who wants to learn about the WRAP® and begin to incorporate it into their life to improve personal wellness and achieve an improved quality of life. These workshops are designed to be highly interactive and encourage participation and sharing from all present. This workshop also lays a broad foundation for building a peer workforce. This class fulfills the prerequisites for being trained as a WRAP® Facilitator.

Seminar II: WRAP® Facilitation Training

Course Description: This course is five intensive days of workshops that prepares participants to facilitate WRAP® classes and equips them with the skills and materials to facilitate classes in your community and organization. Seminar II WRAP® Facilitation is a follow up or people who have completed Seminar I WRAP Courses. The WRAP® Facilitation course is an experiential learning environment based on mutuality and self-determination. Participants in this course will be expected to participate in interactive learning activities and demonstrate their own experience with WRAP.

Seminar II: WRAP Facilitation Training Course Description

Seminar II: WRAP Facilitator Application

Contact: Mental Health Partnerships at mhphope.org.

Crisis Intervention Team Training (CIT)

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Crisis Intervention Training (CIT)

The Philadelphia Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) is a coordinated effort among the Philadelphia Police Department, the Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services, Mental Health Partnerships, the Police Advisory Commission, Project H.O.M.E., the Family and Training Advocacy Center, and the University of Pennsylvania.

CIT training emphasizes the principles of violence prevention, de-escalation, and community collaboration. The purpose of the training is to promote empathy and understanding while increasing effective communication with community members when they are in some of the most vulnerable phases of their life. The training is based on a widely utilized and innovative model of crisis intervention.

To learn more about CIT, contact Erin O’Donnell at 215-546-0300, Ext. 3022, or email her at erin.o’donnell@phila.gov.

Mental Health First Aid (MHFA)

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Mental Health First Aid

logo-1We think of First Aid as something administered to people in need of physical health intervention. What about people who need immediate assistance for their mental health?

Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) is an eight-hour course that teaches the skills needed to identify, understand, and respond to signs of behavioral health challenges or crises. Philadelphia is one of the first metropolitan areas in the U.S. to implement MHFA on a large scale. DBHIDS offers the training free of charge for individuals who live, work, or study in the City of Philadelphia.

Once a certified aider, you will be able to recognize behavioral health signs and administer aid until appropriate treatment and supports are received, or until the crisis is resolved.

Our certification programs include:

Visit HealthyMindsPhilly.org for more information about MHFA.

You can also send us an email, or call 215-790-4996.

Connect with MHFA

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Family Member Story Telling Training

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Family Member Story Telling Training (FM-STT) is a FREE recovery-and-resilience-based Training. It recognizes that the stories of Family Members (Parents, Grandparents, Children, Siblings, Partners, Sponsors, Mentors, Faith, Friends, Family of Choice, Support Staff, etc.), play a Vital Role with assisting people who benefit from and contribute to systematic transformation. This Training is open to everyone (18 and older) and offers many helpful tools which encourages the sharing of personal and challenging experiences with others to help inspire and motivate them, along with creating mutual understanding. It also provides vast opportunities to network and share resources, along with being a positive gateway for those who wish to help others through their own life experiences; helps others to navigate through the Behavioral Health System, while supporting families, faith and communities.

Community

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Public Education & Training

DBHIDS is dedicated to promoting healthy behaviors and healthy communities through education and awareness building strategies. DBHIDS has developed a variety of comprehensive and easily accessible online resources and trainings to strengthen awareness of behavioral health tools, services and support available for individuals and families.

  • Healthy Minds Philly
    A virtual resource designed to provide awareness and education on behavioral health issues and to offer helpful information, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Healthy Minds Philly is home to:

    • Behavioral Health Screenings: Quick, free and anonymous online screenings to learn whether you or someone you care about might be experiencing symptoms of behavioral health disorder.
    • Mental Health First Aid (MHFA): A public education program that teaches the skills needed to identify, understand, and respond to signs of behavioral health challenges or crises. First Aid is given until appropriate supports are received.
    • National Depression Screening Day: You keep tabs on your blood pressure, weight, and cholesterol. Why not your emotional well-being? We all could use a check-up from the neck up! That’s why we bring mental health screenings to the community.
    • Mind Your Holidays: As the holidays approach, we know that it could be a difficult time for some people. From the loss of a loved one to the loss of a job, celebrating the beauty of the holidays might not be as easy for some as it is for others.
  • Behavioral Health Training and Education Network
    Designed to support DBHIDS and other human services systems by planning, coordinating, and providing quality learning experiences in Behavioral Health for the entire system, including individuals and their family members, DBHIDS staff members and staff of other service provider organizations.

Prevention & Early Intervention

DBHIDS understands the earlier we intervene with behavioral health issues, the faster we are able to provide professional care as a community. This requires paying attention to social determinants of health, which include the availability of support, experiences of trauma, access to behavioral health care, educational and economic opportunities, and the social and physical environment. We do this by partnering with city agencies including the criminal justice, housing, school, and child welfare systems, as well as the behavioral health treatment system and the general public.

  • Community Response Teams
    Community Response Teams provide community support and crisis response services to communities affected by disasters, violence, or other events which require emotional support and psychoeducation as part of coordinated response effort.
  • Crisis Intervention Team Training
    The Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) is a collaboration between DBHIDS staff, the Philadelphia Police Department, and other stakeholders designed to reduce conflict during encounters between police and community members with mental health challenges. CIT training emphasizes the principles of violence prevention, de-escalation and community collaboration.
  • Infant Toddler Early Intervention Program
    The Philadelphia Infant Toddler Early Intervention Program is an entitlement program for infants and toddlers between the ages of birth to 3 years of age who are eligible. Anyone can make a referral to Early Intervention and all referred children will receive a developmental assessment and many will also receive a multidisciplinary evaluation. All children eligible will be assigned a service coordinator and all Early Intervention Services are delivered at no cost to the family.

Community Engagement

Public education around behavioral health issues is necessary to promote overall health and well-being. Through partnerships with community based agencies and connecting with public leaders, DBHIDS works to promote the health of Philadelphians by supporting initiatives that strengthen individuals, families and communities.

  • Mural Arts/Porch Light Program
    A groundbreaking public art approach to achieving health and wellness in Philadelphia done in collaboration with the City’s Mural Arts Program. Porch Light works closely with communities to uplift public art as an expression of community resilience and a vehicle of personal and community healing.
  • Engaging Males of Color (EMOC) Initiative
    A newly established and targeted initiative designed to address the impact of health, economic and educational disparities experienced by males of color. Its goals are to promote better understanding and awareness of behavioral health challenges, reduce the associated stigma and improve the quality of life for males of color throughout the Philadelphia region.
  • Community Coalition Initiative
    Community Coalition Initiative was designed to better deliver behavioral health services to targeted communities where there might be significant numbers of vulnerable or at-risk individuals. The program has built partnerships with seven coalitions of community-based organizations (CBOs) and licensed behavioral health providers to help reach community members who can most benefit from these programs, support and treatment services.
  • Faith Based Unit
    In 2005, DBHIDS created a Faith-Based Initiative to build partnerships with city churches, mosques, and synagogues to reach members in various faith communities. These coalitions provide another way to connect people with behavioral health and developmental disabilities with needed supports and services.

Cross System Collaboration

Cross-system collaboration is an essential component to achieving overall wellness. Behavioral health settings are not the natural habitat of many community members. DBHIDS supports innovative cross-system collaboration to strengthen the capacity of the workforce to meet the health and wellness needs of people.

  • Tobacco Recovery and Wellness (TRWI) Initiative
    TRWI is a partnership between the Philadelphia Department of Public Health Tobacco Policy and Control Program, University of Pennsylvania’s Comprehensive Smoking Treatment Program, and the Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbilities (DBHIDS) that engages behavioral health providers to incorporate evidence-based tobacco dependence treatment into their clinical and community practice.
  • Homeless Outreach Unit
    DBHIDS supports five agencies, led by Project Home to engage people living on the streets of Philadelphia. The other agencies are Horizon House, SELF Inc., the Mental Health Association of Southeastern PA and Hall Mercer Community Mental Health Center. The majority of the persons they engage are believed to suffer from behavioral health challenges, particularly co-occurring mental health and addiction challenges.

Innovative Treatment Services

DBHIDS recognizes that effective and innovative practices are essential components of a resilience- and recovery-oriented behavioral health system. DBHIDS is committed to ensuring efficient, sustainable, “state-of-the-art” treatments are a part of the array of services and supports available to individuals who need them.

  • The Philadelphia Alliance for Child Trauma Services
    A network of child serving systems and organizations that provides the most effective practices for traumatized youth and their families aimed to increase the number of children who receive the most effective trauma-focused and trauma informed care in Philadelphia.
  • Evidence-based Practice and Innovation Center (EPIC)
    DBHIDS’ Evidence-based Practice and Innovation Center, or EPIC, seeks to advance system-wide efforts to help support the implementation, sustainability and accessibility of behavioral health Evidence-based Practices in Philadelphia.

Family Training & Advocacy Center

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Protecting the Interests of People In Recovery and Their Families

The mission of the Family Training and Advocacy Center (FTAC) is to enhance the quality of care in the behavioral health community. Providing a wide range of activities and initiatives, the work of FTAC is focused on two primary areas:

Education

  • Training mental health professionals, including case managers, residential workers and managed care professionals, on a wide range of issues, with an emphasis on the family perspective.
  • Providing specialized training to government agencies, psychiatrists, social workers and criminal justice officials on topics such as crisis intervention, forensics, system development and other emerging issues
  • Offering education programs and support to family members of people in recovery

Advocacy

  • Provides policy makers and families with updates on legislation that affect the behavioral health system
  • Serves on government committees to advocate for laws and policies that will improve the delivery of behavioral health services and protect the interests of people in recovery

Quick Facts:

  • Focused on advocacy and teaching
  • Support to families and family groups
  • Works with policy makers to improve quality of recovery care
  • Trains behavioral health professionals, law enforcement officials and social workers

Education and Training Unit

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Education and Training Unit

The Department of Behavioral Health & Intellectual disAability Services is committed to informing, inspiring and empowering our communities. To that end we offer training and technical assistance to behavioral health service providers, individuals in recovery, family members and the community at large. Please follow the links below to explore the training opportunities that are available.

  • Behavioral Health Training & Education Network is committed to supporting DBHIDS and other human service systems by planning, coordinating and providing quality learning experiences in Behavioral Health and related topics. Our training audiences include providers and administrators of services, individuals engaged in services, family members and other interested community members
  • CBH Network Development offers all CBH contracted providers a training series on effective tools for Assessment, Treatment Planning and Clinical Documentation. Network Development also offers Technical Assistance to DBHIDS behavioral health service providers.
  • Mental Health First Aid is an in-person training that teaches you how to help people developing a mental illness or in a crisis.
  • Networks for Training and Development, Inc. is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting inclusive communities through quality training, technical assistance, and demonstration for individuals with disabilities, families, organizations, and neighborhoods. We have worked together to have our website reflect these values.
  • Practice Guidelines Trainings are offered monthly at BHTEN or can be requested for provider organizations and tailored to the specific audience by contacting mariadelmar.cabiya@phila.gov.
  • Training Director’s Collaborative is a group of Training Director’s, Managers and Coordinators from Behavioral Health Organizations in Philadelphia who develop curriculum coordinate training and professional development opportunities for behavioral health service staff. We gather to network, share expertise and explore possibilities for collaboration. If you would like to join this group please contact mariadelmar.cabiya@phila.gov.

UR Storytelling Training

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Voices of Hope and Inspiration

Story Telling Training is a FREE resilience and recovery-oriented training recognizing that the stories of individuals, their recovery processes and the experiences of their family members are critical tools in moving system transformation forward.

Story Telling Training offers many helpful tools for sharing personal and challenging experiences in an inspiring, resilience and recovery-oriented way. Story Telling Training is a gateway for those who want to become active stakeholders and change agents throughout the behavioral health system and in their communities at large.

Please contact Shawn Anderson at Sanders.urstorytelling@gmail.com or go to healthymindsphilly.org for the next storytelling training.

To register:

If you would like to register for an upcoming Story Telling Training, please visit eventbrite.com/e/storytelling.

New website information: http://HealthyMindsPhilly.org/Calendar

Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) Training

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Empowering People to Take Control of Their Wellness

The Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP®) is a SAMHSA evidenced based practice self management tool. WRAP has been widely-acclaimed by behavioral health leaders as an effective means to help people reduce the duration and frequency of distressing feelings and troubling behaviors. WRAP® is  a highly individualized plan that helps individuals maintain their overall wellness. The combination of specific responses and wellness tools promotes empowerment and enables people to live their best life. WRAP® also includes a plan that informs supporters on how to assist individuals during a crisis.

DBHIDS offers a comprehensive training program to help people develop a personal WRAP® and facilitate WRAP® groups.  Seminar I: WRAP® and Mental Health Recovery training provides an orientation to WRAP concepts and gives people an opportunity to develop their own WRAP®. Seminar II: WRAP® Facilitator training provides individuals with techniques on to effectively facilitate WRAP and the opportunity to became a certified WRAP® Facilitator. Both programs are offered throughout the year.

For additional information please contact DBHIDS.PeerCulture@phila.gov.

WRAP Trainings and Meetings

Seminar I: WRAP® and Mental Health Recovery Training

Course Description: This two-day course is for anyone who wants to learn about the WRAP® and begin to incorporate it into their life to improve personal wellness and achieve an improved quality of life. These workshops are designed to be highly interactive and encourage participation and sharing from all present. This workshop also lays a broad foundation for building a peer workforce. This class fulfills the prerequisites for being trained as a WRAP® Facilitator.

Seminar II: WRAP® Facilitation Training

Course Description: This course is five intensive days of workshops that prepares participants to facilitate WRAP® classes and equips them with the skills and materials to facilitate classes in your community and organization. Seminar II WRAP® Facilitation is a follow up or people who have completed Seminar I WRAP Courses. The WRAP® Facilitation course is an experiential learning environment based on mutuality and self-determination. Participants in this course will be expected to participate in interactive learning activities and demonstrate their own experience with WRAP.

Seminar II: WRAP Facilitation Training Course Description

Seminar II: WRAP Facilitator Application

Contact: Mental Health Partnerships at mhphope.org.

Crisis Intervention Team Training (CIT)

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Crisis Intervention Training (CIT)

The Philadelphia Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) is a coordinated effort among the Philadelphia Police Department, the Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services, Mental Health Partnerships, the Police Advisory Commission, Project H.O.M.E., the Family and Training Advocacy Center, and the University of Pennsylvania.

CIT training emphasizes the principles of violence prevention, de-escalation, and community collaboration. The purpose of the training is to promote empathy and understanding while increasing effective communication with community members when they are in some of the most vulnerable phases of their life. The training is based on a widely utilized and innovative model of crisis intervention.

To learn more about CIT, contact Erin O’Donnell at 215-546-0300, Ext. 3022, or email her at erin.o’donnell@phila.gov.

Mental Health First Aid (MHFA)

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Mental Health First Aid

logo-1We think of First Aid as something administered to people in need of physical health intervention. What about people who need immediate assistance for their mental health?

Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) is an eight-hour course that teaches the skills needed to identify, understand, and respond to signs of behavioral health challenges or crises. Philadelphia is one of the first metropolitan areas in the U.S. to implement MHFA on a large scale. DBHIDS offers the training free of charge for individuals who live, work, or study in the City of Philadelphia.

Once a certified aider, you will be able to recognize behavioral health signs and administer aid until appropriate treatment and supports are received, or until the crisis is resolved.

Our certification programs include:

Visit HealthyMindsPhilly.org for more information about MHFA.

You can also send us an email, or call 215-790-4996.

Connect with MHFA