Have you or someone you care about experienced mental health or substance use disorders? Are you interested in a learning how to create simple wellness tools that can help you cope with life’s everyday challenges?

Consider signing up for the CSB’s new Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) classes starting in May and June.

The WRAP process is widely used by people in all kinds of circumstances, as well as by health care and mental health systems to help address all kinds of physical, mental health and life issues. WRAP will help participants discover individualized wellness tools, develop a list of steps to take each day to understand the cycles of wellness, and identify early warning signs of stress or anxiety.

Each series consists of eight 2-hour classes grounded in mental health recovery concepts. Attendees will learn self-help tools and resources that can help lower stress and feel better during difficult times. Classes are free.

Classes will be held at three locations across Fairfax County.

• Tuesdays, beginning May 8, 2018
  10 a.m. to noon
  Consumer Wellness Center
  Heritage Building, East Wing
  7611 Little River Turnpike
  Annandale, VA 22003
• Wednesdays, beginning May 30, 2018
  1 to 3 p.m.
  Reston Northwest Center
  1850 Cameron Glen Drive, Suite 600
  Reston, VA 20190
• Fridays, beginning June 1, 2018
  1 to 3 p.m.
  Merrifield Peer Resource Center
  8221 Willow Oaks Corporate Drive, first floor
  Fairfax, VA 22031

Learn how to create an individualized “wellness toolbox,” recognize anxiety triggers and early warning signs of trouble, and develop tools on what to do in a crisis. Through a combination of lecture, discussion and group exercises, course participants will learn how to implement the key concepts of recovery (hope, personal responsibility, education, self-advocacy and support) in their day-to-day lives.

Building better health is key to overall psychological well-being. Being mentally healthy is more than being free of depression or anxiety; it also means having a sense of contentment, resilience and an ability to maintain balance between work and play.