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
