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Valley Cities Groups and Classes

Valley Cities offers a few different kinds of groups, mainly falling into three categories:

Activity groups: Individuals getting together for movement and activity, such as chair yoga, art, journaling, etc.

Classes: Individuals meeting together in a group setting learning new skills or tools. These classes use Evidence-Based Practices, such as CBT, DBT, WRAP, WHAM, or Love and Logic.

Support groups: Individuals meeting together for mutual peer support, such as Coffee and Conversation, Coping During Covid-19, and Sister Building Sister.

INTERESTED IN ATTENDING A GROUP AT VALLEY CITIES?

If you’re a current client, talk to a member of your care team to be referred, and if you’re a new client, contact us to start the intake process.

Available Groups

Crisis Prevention and Self Care

One of the most important things you can do for yourself is to develop a Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP). WRAP is a self-management and recovery system developed by a group of people who had mental health challenges and were struggling to incorporate wellness tools and strategies into their lives. WRAP is designed to:

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Assist people in achieving their own life goals and dreams

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Improve quality of life

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Decrease and prevent intrusive or troubling feelings and behaviors

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Increase personal empowerment

WRAP is a structured system to monitor uncomfortable and distressing feelings and behaviors and through planned responses, reducing, modifying, or eliminating them. It also includes plans for responses from others when you cannot make decisions, take care of yourself, or keep yourself safe.

Source: Dr. Mary Ellen Copeland, Copeland Center

Contact your care team to get started developing your WRAP.

Crisis Prevention and Coping Strategies

Express gratitude
Positive self-talk
Take a bath or shower
Exercise – go for a walk
Leave the area, if you are in conflict with others
Gardening
Deep breathing
Call a friend
Help someone else
Listen to music that soothes you

Watch a movie, especially comedies
Read
Write, paint, draw, sing, play music
Care for an animal
Use coping skills learned in Groups and individual sessions
Follow your WRAP
Attend a support group
Call a support group member
Call the WarmLine, 877-500-WARM(9276), open Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday from 5-9 p.m.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Crisis Connections: 1-866-427-4747

24-hour hotline serving King, Pierce, Clark, Skamania, Klickitat, Grant, Okanogan, Chelan, and Douglas Counties, serving all ages. Click HERE to Dial.

Suicide and Crisis Lifeline: 988

24-hour national hotline serving all ages, call or text 988, also has online chat.

Teen Link: 1-866-833-6546

Available online at https://866teenlink.org/, text and web chat (6-9:30pm PST) and phone at 1-866-833-6546 from 6-10pm PST, answered by youth under the supervision of qualified professionals

Teen Link also provides a publication, available on their website, called Where to Turn For Teens. This publication provides information on physical health resources, shelters, food banks, and more for teens who are in need of additional support in specific areas of concern.

Crisis Text Line: 741741

24-hour text-based service, text message to 741741 to connect to trained crisis counselor.

The Warm Line: 1-877-500-9276

9am-10pm Monday-Sunday, local hotline answered by people with lived experience with interpersonal conflict and mental health diagnoses.

The Trevor Project: 1-866-488-7386

24-hour national hotline serving LGBTQ+ youth, 1-866-488-7386, text 678678 or access web chat via https://www.thetrevorproject.org/webchat

Trans Lifeline: 1-877-565-8860

24-hour national hotline serving trans individuals of all ages.

WA Recovery Helpline: 1-866-789-1511