Northern Trust Recovery College

The Recovery College offers everyone including those who have lived experience, carers, staff, volunteers and members of the general public the opportunity to learn from each other and to develop skills to manage their own recovery journey or to begin a new one.

Everyone has challenges, and everyone can learn. Recovery College courses provide the opportunities to encourage individual recovery, wellness, empowerment, progress and life-long learning. For more information click here.

WRAP (Wellness Recovery Action Plan)
WRAP is a self-management and recovery tool to help those with mental health difficulties. Individuals can create their own recovery action plan, set out goals for themselves and how they get there.

The five main elements of WRAP include:

Hope
People who experience mental health difficulties can get well, stay well and go on to meet their life dreams and goals.

Personal responsibility
It is up to you, with the assistance of others, to take action and do what needs to be done to keep yourself well.

Education
Learn all you can about what you are experiencing so you can make good decisions about all aspects of your life.

Self-advocacy
Effectively reaching out to others so that you can get what it is that you need, want and deserve to support your wellness and recovery.

Support
While working toward your wellness is up to you, receiving support from others, and giving support to others will help you feel better and enhance the quality of your life.

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Recovery Star

The Recovery Star has been created as an integral component of one-to-one keywork or services which support individuals with a wide range of short and long term mental health difficulties.

The Recovery Star covers 10 outcome areas::

1. Managing mental health
2. Physical health
3. Living skills
4. Friends & community
5. Use of time
6. Relationships
7. Addictive behavior
8. Home
9. Identity and self-esteem
10. Trust and hope

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