Mental Health and Wellness
No One Heals Alone—Belonging Changes Everything
No one heals alone—belonging changes everything
Mental Health Wellness
The Wendellman Foundation supports individuals living with mental illness—including military veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and incarcerated persons—by fostering wellness and community integration through peer-led support, trauma-informed skill-building, and resource navigation. We foster inclusion, resilience, and dignity, enabling individuals to lead fulfilling and connected lives.
Wendellman Foundation Mental Health & Wellness Program is evidence-driven and strategically designed to:
- Empower individuals by fostering self-management, resilience, and recovery.
- Strengthen social and community bonds, reducing stigma and isolation.
- Reduce reliance on crisis services, while lowering costs and supporting continuity of care.
- Support systemic wellness, with benefits extending to peer leaders, program staff, and community impact.
No one heals alone—belonging changes everything
Elevating the Voices of Individuals
Our Mental Health and Wellness Program provides comprehensive, compassionate support across key areas of recovery—peer-led services, trauma-informed care, life skills development, and community integration. By elevating the voices of individuals with lived experience, the program nurtures hope, empowerment, and self-efficacy for those on their healing journey.
Research shows that peer support significantly improves personal recovery, increases engagement in mental health services, reduces hospitalizations, and lowers overall care costs. By fostering social connection and shared understanding, the program helps reduce isolation—where up to 70% of participants report improved emotional well-being and a greater sense of belonging. Through shared identity and group cohesion, it also helps reduce self-stigma and strengthens participants’ confidence in their ability to recover and thrive.
Peer-Led Services
Support and guidance delivered by individuals with lived mental health experience—offering understanding, encouragement, and hope through shared journeys of recovery.
Trauma-Informed Care
An approach that prioritizes safety, empathy, and trust—recognizing the impact of trauma and ensuring support services are delivered with compassion, dignity, and sensitivity to individuals’ experiences.
Life Skills Development
Providing practical training in daily living skills—such as cooking, budgeting, hygiene, and time management—to help individuals build confidence, independence, and self-sufficiency in their everyday lives.
Social and Community Integration
Creating opportunities for connection through group activities, peer support, and community involvement—helping individuals build relationships, reduce isolation, and feel a sense of belonging.
No one heals alone—belonging changes everything
Whole Health Action Management
Integrating structured curricula such as Whole Health Action Management (WHAM) bridges mental and physical wellness by guiding participants in whole-health goal-setting, stress management, lifestyle habits, and building optimism—and demonstrates measurable gains in self-management, general health, and employment outcomes among individuals with serious mental illness.
Concurrently, peer-driven recovery planning, facilitated support groups, and resource navigation promote autonomy, reinforce coping strategies, and strengthen pathways to community resources like housing, employment, and healthcare. Providers in these roles also benefit—from growth in confidence, purpose, and resilience—embodying the helper therapy principle that enriches peer leaders as well as servers.
Through this multi-layered design—combining peer support, psychoeducation, wellness coaching, and community linkage—our program aims to empower individuals to regain control over their lives, build strong recovery identities, reduce reliance on crisis services, and foster long-term social and physical well-being for participants, peer facilitators, and the broader community.
Delivering Aid
Peer-led Support Groups and Recovery Circles
Guided by individuals with lived experience, these groups offer safe spaces for sharing, support, and skill-building—helping participants build resilience, cope with challenges, and foster hope
Social, Community and Recreational Events
Structured and engaging activities that promote social connection, reduce isolation, and support mental wellness. Participants engage in shared activities that foster friendship and community
Group Learning and Peer Supported Opportunities
Provide interactive, peer-supported sessions where participants gain knowledge, develop skills, and grow together in a supportive and encouraging community
Volunteer Opportunities and Civic Engagement
Provides participants meaningful ways to contribute to their community, develop skills, and build confidence -- engaging in service and civic activities, individuals foster a sense of purpose
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Direct Support for Individuals and military veterans living with serious mental health disorders and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
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