Services
We offer free, 24/7 peer support to help you feel heard, supported, and empowered—wherever you are on your journey.
Virtual Peer Support Network
Join Our Zoom Community!
Our Virtual Peer Support Network (VPSN) is a welcoming Zoom-based community led by peer specialists with lived experience in mental health and recovery. These sessions offer support, community, and wellness everyday from 9AM to 5PM.
Peer Support Connection Warmline
Chat With Us Tonight!
Feeling down or just need someone to talk to? Call the Peer Support Connection Warmline any night between 5 PM and 9 AM to connect with a peer who’s here to listen.
Recovery in the Woods
Walk With Us in Your Recovery!
We believe that recovery is possible for everyone and we all have a right to choose the path that works best for us. We would be honored to walk alongside you on your recovery journey. Join our recovery-focused support groups on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday evenings at 6PM on Zoom!
Additional Help
You’re not alone, and the right kind of help is always available.
Peer support is powerful—we’re here to listen, connect, and walk alongside you. If you’re ever in immediate danger or need urgent help beyond what peer support can provide, call 911, or contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline for professional, 24/7 support.
Upcoming Events
Join us for many of our upcoming events.
Trainings
WRAP®
Wellness Recovery Action Plan
What is WRAP®?
Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP®) is a prevention and wellness process that anyone can use to get well, stay well and make their life more the way they want it through a series of tools and action plans called a WRAP®. This is a process for anyone who wants to make positive changes in the way they feel and the way they react to life. WRAP® workshops are adaptable and can be modified to use with teams, and different types of community groups.
Hope on Purpose
Hope on Purpose is a service of Wellness in The Woods that provides WRAP® workshops to those who have experience in the Department of Corrections and County Jails across the state of Minnesota.
Mental Health First Aid
Increasing understanding while decreasing stigma, Wellness in the Woods certified trainers offer an 8 hour class on Mental Health First Aid that identifies common mental health and substance use recovery struggles and an action plan to assist others in crisis.
Question, Persuade, Refer
QPR is a 1.5 hour training for any community member to learn basic skills to assist someone at risk for suicide. By asking a simple question, you can save a life.
Imagine Network
Imagine Network is an in-person, peer-to-peer program designed to provide opportunities for those utilizing mental healthand substance use recovery services to interact and participate with each other in a safe and empowering environment.
Adverse Childhood Experiences
Adverse childhood experiences, or ACEs, are potentially traumatic events that occur in childhood (0-17 years). Also included are aspects of the child’s environment that can undermine their sense of safety, stability, and bonding.
The Fentanyl Crisis
How Synthetic Opioids Are Driving Addiction, Overdose, And Deaths
“We must take every opportunity to spread the word to prevent fentanyl-related overdose death and poisonings from claiming scores of American lives every day.”
~Anne Milgram, DEA Administrator
Fentanyl is destroying and killing innocent lives right now in your local community!
We need to come together, take action and create more awareness to fight in this drug war!
“Fentanyl is the single deadliest drug threat our nation has ever encountered.”
“Fentanyl is everywhere. From large metropolitan areas to rural America, no community is safe from this poison.”
Why is fentanyl so dangerous?
Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine and is the primary driver of the overdose crisis. Since it is so much stronger, only a very small amount, such as a few grains, can be lethal. It has a quicker but shorter high and is quicker to lead to withdrawals.
What To Do During An Overdose?
In order to effectively respond when a friend or loved one who has overdosed, it's important to know the signs, which may include but are not limited to:
Small, constricted “pinpoint pupils”
Falling asleep or losing consciousness.
Slow, weak, or no breathing.
Choking or gurgling sounds.
Limp body.
Cold and/or clammy skin. Discolored skin (especially in lips and nails)
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has provided a comprehensive overdose response tool kit that illustrates how to:
Identifying Signs of Overdose
Administer Naloxone (Narcan)
Provide CPR
Monitor and Manage Responses
Support Breathing
Once your loved one is conscious, wait with them until paramedics arrive. The chances of surviving an overdose depend on a variety of factors, including but not limited to timeliness and effectiveness of the response, how much fentanyl they have in their system, pre-existing health conditions, and more.
Find Naloxone near you in Minnesota
Naloxone, also known as Narcan®, is a potentially lifesaving drug that can reverse an opioid overdose. It can be administered as an injection or nasal spray. When a person administers naloxone during an opioid overdose, naloxone disables an opioid’s harmful effects to the brain, temporarily reversing an opioid overdose. It is only effective for an opioid overdose and is otherwise harmless. The effects of naloxone wear off after 30-45 minutes, so call 911 immediately. Learn more about Opioid Overdose Prevention