Maintaining The Mental Health & Wellbeing of Your Volunteers

We would like to highlight the Wellness Action Plan (WAP) as a way for Volunteer Managers / Organisations to support the mental health of their volunteers.

• The WAP is inspired by Mary Ellen Copeland’s Wellness Recovery Action Plan® (WRAP®): an evidence based system used worldwide by people to manage their mental health.
• WAPs are a personalised, practical tool we can all use – whether we have a mental health problem or not – to help us identify what keeps us well at work, what causes us to become unwell and the support we would like to receive from our manager to boost our wellbeing or support us through a recovery.

You can read more on our new page in the Involving Volunteer section on Maintaining The Mental Health & Wellbeing of Your Volunteers.  It has links to download WAP templates and links for further information on mental health in Northern Ireland.