Alliance Alert: The Alliance is excited to share this powerful opportunity from the Copeland Center to build capacity in peer-led recovery and wellness support. The Taking Action for Whole Health & Wellbeing course offers individuals a dynamic path to strengthen recovery strategies, foster connection, and promote self-determination in mental health and substance use recovery.
This SAMHSA-based curriculum centers lived experience, peer support, and practical action planning for whole-person wellness. Whether you’re a peer advocate, community leader, or provider looking to bring new tools into your practice, this training can help you make a deeper impact.
We encourage anyone committed to advancing recovery and community-based support to register—and take action!
| “I’ve moved whole health from a concept into my life. I’m learning to put things where they need to be put.” -Recent Participant |
Taking Action for Whole Health
and Wellbeing Online Course
TIME: 2-4:30pm ET/1-3:30pm CT/12-2:30pm MT/11am-1:30pm PT
Dates – Thursdays: Sept 4, Sept 11, Sept 18, Sept 25, and Oct 2
The Copeland Center’s Taking Action for Whole Health & Wellbeing course is a co-facilitated group process that supports individuals in creating a personalized system for recovering, sustaining, and improving their whole health outcomes.
The curriculum is based on the US Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration’s (SAMHSA) Taking Action curriculum and other recovery publications developed with input from individuals with lived experience of recovery from mental health, addictions, and co-occurring challenges. The program integrates evidence-based and experiential peer-to-peer strategies that have demonstrated effectiveness through research and provider feedback.
Essential Elements:
• Recovery, wellness, self-care, self-compassion, and action orientation
• Focus on self-esteem, connection, hope, empowerment, self-determination, education, community inclusion, and self-advocacy
• Building a strong support system and utilizing personal and community resources
• Wellness tools, skills, and strategies for whole health, including physical health aspects such as exercise, nutrition, light, sleep, and smoking
• Spirituality, complementary, alternative, and additional wellness tool
• Developing action plans for triggers, early warning signs, and difficult times
• Healthcare, medications, crisis planning, and advanced directives
• Post-crisis and post-relapse planning
• Wellness topics: employment, meaningful activity, motivation, and lifestyle
The course is led by two trained peer co-facilitators following the Copeland Center’s evidence-based and experiential peer engagement strategies, incorporating over two decades of experience. Training includes principles from Self-Directed Care, Wellness Self-Management, Motivation Theory, and Peer Support.
$100 Early Bird Until Aug 15 with code EarlyBird2025, $200 regular tuition
Taking Action Co-Facilitator Training
Roanoke VA – Oct. 27-31, 2025
Brattleboro VT – Nov. 17-21, 2025
This course is 5 intensive days that will prepare participants to co-facilitate workshops based on SAMHSA’s Taking Action Program and acquire the skills, knowledge, and materials to co-facilitate groups in their community and organization. The Taking Action Co-Facilitator training provides an experiential learning environment based on mutuality, empowerment, connection, and self-determination. Participants in this course will be expected to participate in interactive learning activities and demonstrate their own experience with the Taking Action Program.
This training is appropriate for anyone who would like to lead wellness and recovery groups, work with others to develop their steps to taking action for wellness and recovery, and give presentations on mental health wellness and recovery-related issues to groups or organizations. Participants are expected to have a solid working knowledge of the Taking Action Program and share their experiential knowledge of how taking action for wellness and recovery has worked.
The Copeland Center hosts many interesting and skill building trainings
both online and in-person!
Online Courses
8/19 & 8/20 – Motivating with Mutuality: An Intro to Motivational Interviewing
9/16 & 9/18 – Peer Support Ethics
10/1 & 10/3 – Vision Boarding: A Power Tool for Peer Specialists
10/6 & 10/7 – Doors to Wellbeing Summit – Virtual Conference
10/6 – 10/10 – Supervision & Support of the Peer Specialist Online Training
Check Out the Virtual Summit! Oct. 6-7 Online
Whether you’re new to the field or have been walking this path for years, the summit offers practical tools, meaningful connections, peer support, and fresh inspiration to help you deepen your impact
The Copeland Center | P.O. Box 6471 | Brattleboro, VT 05302 US