Welcome to the professional consulting network for Personal Empowerment Programs

P.E.P.

and Psychosocial Re-Integration

Henry Willey has over 40 years in dealing with those with mental illness. He has worked in the areas of volunteer inpatient visitation, peer-counseling, founder of approximately 12 peer support groups in California and Arizona.

He has served as Chairman of the Humboldt County Mental Health Board in Eureka, Ca. and represented 17 counties in rural northern California on the board of directors of the California Network of Mentaly Health Clients. He founded a support group for all diagnoses in 2002 "Mind Menders",which is still active today.

  He was appointed to the California Oversight and Accountability Commission's Committee for client and family issues.

He founded five chapters of (DBSA) Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance throughout Ca, and AZ. This includes the first state chapter for Arizona.

He has also founded 12 peer support groups.

He has served on the NARBHA cultural competence committee.
 He graduated from the Advanced Peer Specialist training in 2008 from Recovery Innovations in Phoenix, AZ.

He was chosen by Dr. Laura Nelson, Director of AZ. Behavioral Health Dept. to serve on the State of Arizona's Individual and Family Affairs Council under the State Director of Behavioral Health.

He is a founder and trainer for "Life Recovery Coaches" which he developed in 2007 and has taught classes in Eureka Ca., Tucson and Phoenix, AZ. This is now expanded and more complete focusing on practical mentoring.

  • Henry has also developed and taught "Group Facilitation Made Easy".He has developed  P.E.P.  ("Personal Empowerment Programs") which is a series of peer trainings and discussion groups developed by Mr. Willey as the first peer to do these groups in the Phoenix Veteran's Administration Hospital.
  • New and innovative peer programs are being developed almost daily. New Youth Summer internship programs are in place with students from Humboldt State University. 4 students enrolled.

 

Mr. Willey maintains an office in California and networks with others across the nation and world. He is a member of the National Coalition of Mental Health Consumer / Survivor Organizations, Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance and the California Network of Mental Health Clients.

 

Mr. Willey has been actively engaged in peer provider activities for the last 24 years.

Mr. Willey was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder in 1982 but had gone undiagnosed since elementary school.

He has experienced about everything with the medical professionals and medication as anyone else.

He is able to empathize and lead many out of their isolationism and into the paths of Recovery and service.

 

At one point in his treatment, he was given some devastating medication to treat his bipolar. 

He began to deteriorate mentally and was then re-diagnosed with Alzheimer's  in 1995. 

 For two years, he was totally "out of it".  After seeing another psychiatrist, he was given different medications and recovered from the cognitive dysfunctions.

This is his own personal horror story.

 
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