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DBSA Boston Monthly Speakers’ Series Tuesday, March 26 2024, at 7:00 p.m. ET

Lisa McLaughlin Charland, CPS, will provide us with a description of WRAP, share how it’s been helpful to her, and how it can support your recovery journey.

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Description of Presentation
Lisa McLaughlin Charland, CPS, will provide us with a description of WRAP, share how it’s been helpful to her, and how it can support your recovery journey. Lisa will begin by sharing her personal experience with using a WRAP and what she’s learned while facilitating several WRAP groups at McLean Hospital. She will also speak about her background as a certified peer specialist at McLean, where she facilitates inpatient and outpatient groups and provides individual support for people in McLean’s programs. She will also touch on her latest writing project, a book of nonfiction short stories focused on mental health, grief, hope, humor, and recovery.

Bio of Presenter
Lisa McLaughlin Charland is a Certified Peer Specialist at McLean Hospital, a Harvard Medical School affiliate. She facilitates inpatient and outpatient groups for AB2, Well-Space, and Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) programs, and meets with people in those programs individually. She’s a speaker for the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) In Our Own Voice Program and has written about her experience with mental health challenges and recovery for five years.
She’s now working on writing her first book, which will focus on hope, humor, and recovery. She’s been featured in a WBUR piece about mental health and the pandemic, a podcast focusing on mental health in the workplace, a literary journal that published her story on grief, and McLean Hospital’s Horizons Magazine discussing the importance of peer work. She’s both a peer and a family member to someone who experiences a mental health condition, and understands what it’s like to be in both positions.

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