A recent initiative of the Family Advocacy, Support and Training
(FAST) program is the Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) for Youth. It is a
program that allows youth to develop and write their own plan that they feel
works best for them to succeed. By doing this, each youth participant
identifies their Wellness Tools, and creates a Daily Maintenance Plan.
Afterwards they identify Triggers and Warning Signs that they create Action Plans
for.
The FAST program has partnered with the Putnam County Magistrate Court
Truancy Diversion Program and Putnam County Schools in utilizing WRAP and
working with youth who are having truancy issues. After one year of gathering
data, during the course of receiving WRAP, youth showed a 94% improvement in
attendance and an overall reduction in disciplinary actions from 31 to 1.
Youth
have found the program to be a great benefit and here is what some of them had
to say afterwards: “I like that the WRAP program has got all of my past
problems off my shoulders and put somewhere else,” “Helped get things off my
chest and out in the open,” and “the best thing about WRAP is that it taught me
what worked for me rather than typical exercises that works for others.”