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MPOWER is growing:

MPOWER & The Transformation Center

98 Magazine St, Roxbury, MA 02119
617-442-4111
TTY: 617-442-9042
Toll-free: 877-769-7693                                                                                                                      (Website under construction at www.transformation-center.org)

 

An Overview of Our Activities 



Massachusetts Leadership Academy (MLA)
•    A 3 Day Retreat 4 times/year to learn leadership and advocacy skills
•    Network and choose your role in one of the 3 branches of our movement:
          peer support, paid peer roles, or grass roots activism
•    Increase participation on policy Boards & Committees

Peer Facilitator’s Project
•    Statewide peer-run support meetings inside hospitals
•    Share our “lived experiences” – share our recovery journey

Empowered! At The Statehouse
•    A day-long event held 3 or 4 times per year to learn about legislative issues
•    Learn our way around the statehouse
•    Practice meeting your legislator and talking to them about issues

Certified Peer Specialist Training (CPS)
•    Peers play a unique role in recovery
•    Prepare for certified, paid positions in mental health treatment
•    8 days of training, then a month of study groups and a certification exam

Consumers of Color Peer Networking Project (CCPNP)
•    St. Botolph Street support, advocacy, and exercise groups
•    African American Writers Collective - emerging

MassWRAP (Wellness Recovery Action Plan)
•    There are many Wellness Recovery Action Plan classes in the Boston area
•    We offer a 5 day WRAP Facilitator Training by certified WRAP Trainers, followed 
         by an internship as a WRAP Trainer
   
Peer Advocacy Training
•    New training format and schedule to be determined in 2007
•    Build a network of trained “self-advocacy coaches” that help peers with housing, benefits, peer support networking, treatment planning, rights complaints, transportation independence and more

Provider Trainings on Recovery
•    Spread the word that recovery is probable
•    Problem solve about how providers can best offer help
•    Make connections among allies

Recovery Learning Communities (RLC) Development
•    Bring resources & people together in regional Recovery Learning Communities
•    Create community connections for people in mental health and addictions recovery
•    Build more support, education and wellness opportunities across the region
•    DMH funds RLCs in Western MA, Central MA, and Metro Suburban MA
•    Guiding Councils for RLCs in all regions of Massachusetts

Young Adult Leadership Council (YALC)
•    Train & support young adults to work with peer groups
•     Support youth involvement in mental health advocacy

Networking Communications
•    Provide information (the Transformation Center website is still under construction)
•    Information & Referral, responding to a growing number of calls for help
•    Periodic Statewide Consumer Operated Programs & Activities (COPA) meetings in  
         Worcester (all peers invited!)
•    Voices for CHANGE newsletter

Policy Issues
•    Eliminating Restraint & Seclusion
•    Housing, employment and addictions recovery support
•    Access to services for all cultural and ethnic groups
•    Medicaid and other funds for Peer Specialists and other Peer Support workers
•    Consumer-driven research driving program implementation
•    Ending “Stigma” and discrimination
•    Rights for Fresh Air in hospitals & respectful treatment in Emergency Rooms