Are you a client at Military Family Services?
You may have coverage for COPE and SRP.
The Wounded Warriors Canada COPE program is Canada’s leading couples-based trauma program for Trauma Exposed Professionals (TExP’s) and their Trauma Exposed Families (TExF’s). COPE is delivered nationally in English and French and is open to all Canadian veterans and first responders and their spouse/partner. This includes currently serving and retired/released veterans as well as RCMP, Police, Fire, EMS and Corrections services.
COPE PHASE 1
The group-based facilitation model that COPE employs is designed specifically to combat the isolation and shame that are inherent aspects of everyday life for families dealing with operational stress issues. Phase I employs the following clinical methods:
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- Structured reflection on critical life events to build awareness of how the PTSI has affected the couples’ relationships with themselves and each other.
- Psychoeducation around and professionally facilitated practice of relationship-focused PTSI coping skills, and
- Group processes to build a sense of community for the participant couples who are dealing with their OSI.
Duration: 5-day residential delivery
COPE PHASE 2
On the last day of Phase I, each couple creates 2 week, 2 month and 6 month SMART goals (specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, timely) to increase their effective coping as a couple. These goals form the basis for the coaching calls, where professional coaches utilize the Solution Focused Coaching Approach to assist the clients in self-realization that will help them build better futures as they manage their injury within their relationships.
Duration: 3 phone calls per month for 6 months.
PROGRAM DEVELOPERS
DR. TIM BLACK, R.PSYCH., NATIONAL CLINICAL DIRECTOR
Dr. Black has been a trauma and group counselling specialist, educator, clinician, researcher, and program developer for over 20 years. In the first part of his career as a tenured Associate Professor of Counselling Psychology in one of the top counselling psychology graduate programs in Canada, Tim taught, published, and conducted research focused on Trauma Exposed Professionals (TExP). He has worked as a community-engaged researcher/practitioner beyond the halls of academia with Veteran and First Responder communities, local and national organizations, and has co-developed multiple national programs for TExP’s and their Trauma Exposed Families (TExF). Tim now serves as Wounded Warriors Canada’s National Clinical Director.
CHRIS & KATHRYN LINFORD
Lieutenant Colonel (retired) Chris Linford BScN CD and his wife Kathryn have endured over two decades living with PTSD. They travel nationally representing WWC on numerous events annually telling their story of heart ache and struggle, but also of new found health and happiness. They have found a way to live with PTSD; stronger as a team, happier as a couple. They represent for all to witness a renewed level of health that can be achieved if you commit to do the work.
They also are the co-founders along with Dr Tim Black of the COPE Program or “Couples Overcoming PTSD Every Day”. This program represents their ability and willingness to give back and pay forward their new found health to all others struggling with PTSD in the home.
WWC COPE LIFE COACHES
Brad Hardie
PCC, ECPC, MPNLP, CTP
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Cindy Hogg
PCC, ECPC, C-IQ, EQ-i
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Laura Spiegel
PCC, ECPC, BSc, MNLP
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Susan Hogarth
PCC, ECPC, BSc, MNLP
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Are you a client at Military Family Services?
You may have coverage for COPE and SRP.
