Recovery Innovations

Recovery Education

Recovery Education Center
Recovery Innovations of California offers trained peer facilitators to lead recovery education classes that help people discover and utilize their strengths to advance their own wellness. These classes help develop skills and tools that can lead to success in all aspects of daily living. The following courses are available on a one-time or continuous basis. Click here for the list of Recovery Innovations classes offered in San Diego County.

WRAP
Wellness Recovery Action Plan, a highly effective program created by Mary Ellen Copeland, is a strengths-based self-help tool that enables an individual to regain control of their life. It identifies warning signs and events that may lead to increased challenges with symptoms and the wellness tools that can overcome such challenges. WRAP is a 16-hour course.

WELL
Wellness and Empowerment in Life and Living is a 32-hour course that explores a wide range of life and community living skills. Some of the topics include: An Introduction to Recovery, Hope, Loneliness and Self-esteem, Conflict Resolution, Employment and Education, Substance Abuse, Budgeting, Relationships, Goal Setting, and Social Skills. The goal of WELL is to equip the individual for success in community living.

Medication for Success
This is a 16-hour course to teach people how to take responsibility for managing their medication and related issues. During the class, participants learn how to have a complete medication discussion with their prescriber, develop their own plan for medication management, and develop a plan for handling side effects.

Advanced Training

Advanced training opportunities provided in the following courses:

Transformational Advocacy: Training assists people interested in becoming a systems advocate. The following skills will be covered: communication, conflict management, team building and public speaking.

Advocacy for Positive Outcomes: Training to develop personal advocacy skills using class interaction, role plays and guided questons.

Recovery Practices in Leadership and Coaching: For organizations and systems interested in hiring Peer Support Specialists. Training provides information to further develop recovery culture in your mental health settings and what you can expect when you add peer support specialists to a team. This class will help your teams understand the gifts that peers bring to the teams they join.