Wraparound Services
WHAT IS WRAPAROUND?
Wraparound is an intensive, holistic method of engaging with individuals with complex needs (most typically children, youth, and their families) so that they can live in their homes and communities and realize their hopes and dreams.
The Wraparound process aims to achieve positive outcomes by providing a structured, creative and individualized team planning process that, compared to traditional treatment planning, results in plans that are more effective and more relevant to the child and family. Through the team-based planning and implementation process – as well as availability of research-based interventions that can address priority needs of youth and caregivers. Wraparound aims to develop the problem-solving skills, coping skills, and self-efficacy of the young people and family members with an emphasis on integrating the youth into the community and building the family’s social support network.
WHAT TAKES PLACE DURING THE WRAPAROUND PROCESS?
Wraparound is commonly described as taking place across four phases of effort: Engagement and team preparation, Initial plan development, Implementation, and Transition. During the Wraparound process, a team of people who are relevant to the life of the child or youth (e.g., family members, members of the family’s social support network, service providers, and agency representatives) collaboratively develop an individualized plan of care, implement this plan, monitor the efficacy of the plan, and work towards success over time. A hallmark of the Wraparound process is that it is driven by the perspectives of the family and the child or youth. The plan should reflect their goals and their ideas about what sorts of service and support strategies are most likely to be helpful to them in reaching their goals. The Wraparound plan typically includes formal services, including research-based interventions as appropriate to build skills and meet youth and family needs, together with community services and interpersonal support and assistance provided by friends, kin, and other people drawn from the family’s social networks. After the initial plan is developed, the team continues to meet often enough to monitor progress, which it does by measuring the plan’s components against the indicators of success selected by the team. Plan components, interventions and strategies are revised when the team determines that they are not working, i.e., when the relevant indicators of success are not being achieved.
WHAT ARE THE IMPLEMENTATION REQUIREMENTS FOR WRAPAROUND?
Providing comprehensive care through the Wraparound process requires a high degree of collaboration and coordination among the child- and family-serving agencies and organizations in a community. These agencies and organizations need to work together to provide access to flexible resources and a well-developed array of services and supports in the community. In addition other community- or system-level supports are necessary for Wraparound to be successfully implemented and sustained. Research on Wraparound implementation has defined these essential community and system supports for Wraparound, and grouped them into six themes:
WHO IS WRAPAROUND AVAILABLE TO?
Wraparound services are available to families of youth age 0 through 21, who present multiple needs that cannot be met by a single service provider. This planning process is a child-centered, family-focused collaborative effort to enhance families’ opportunities for success. Any single agency may meet the needs of families referred to Service Coordination and the Service Coordination Mechanism will not replace that or any agency’s role. If that agency, with the family’s approval, feels that collaboration with other agencies is necessary to meet the needs of the family, the Service Coordination can then be initiated.
WHO DO I CONTACT ABOUT WRAPAROUND SERVICES?
To make a referral for wraparound services, please enter your information below and our Wraparound Coordinator will contact you.
Wraparound is an intensive, holistic method of engaging with individuals with complex needs (most typically children, youth, and their families) so that they can live in their homes and communities and realize their hopes and dreams.
The Wraparound process aims to achieve positive outcomes by providing a structured, creative and individualized team planning process that, compared to traditional treatment planning, results in plans that are more effective and more relevant to the child and family. Through the team-based planning and implementation process – as well as availability of research-based interventions that can address priority needs of youth and caregivers. Wraparound aims to develop the problem-solving skills, coping skills, and self-efficacy of the young people and family members with an emphasis on integrating the youth into the community and building the family’s social support network.
WHAT TAKES PLACE DURING THE WRAPAROUND PROCESS?
Wraparound is commonly described as taking place across four phases of effort: Engagement and team preparation, Initial plan development, Implementation, and Transition. During the Wraparound process, a team of people who are relevant to the life of the child or youth (e.g., family members, members of the family’s social support network, service providers, and agency representatives) collaboratively develop an individualized plan of care, implement this plan, monitor the efficacy of the plan, and work towards success over time. A hallmark of the Wraparound process is that it is driven by the perspectives of the family and the child or youth. The plan should reflect their goals and their ideas about what sorts of service and support strategies are most likely to be helpful to them in reaching their goals. The Wraparound plan typically includes formal services, including research-based interventions as appropriate to build skills and meet youth and family needs, together with community services and interpersonal support and assistance provided by friends, kin, and other people drawn from the family’s social networks. After the initial plan is developed, the team continues to meet often enough to monitor progress, which it does by measuring the plan’s components against the indicators of success selected by the team. Plan components, interventions and strategies are revised when the team determines that they are not working, i.e., when the relevant indicators of success are not being achieved.
WHAT ARE THE IMPLEMENTATION REQUIREMENTS FOR WRAPAROUND?
Providing comprehensive care through the Wraparound process requires a high degree of collaboration and coordination among the child- and family-serving agencies and organizations in a community. These agencies and organizations need to work together to provide access to flexible resources and a well-developed array of services and supports in the community. In addition other community- or system-level supports are necessary for Wraparound to be successfully implemented and sustained. Research on Wraparound implementation has defined these essential community and system supports for Wraparound, and grouped them into six themes:
- Community partnership: Representatives of key stakeholder groups, including families, young people, agencies, providers, and community representatives have joined together in a collaborative effort to plan, implement and oversee Wraparound as a community process.
- Collaborative action: Stakeholders involved in the Wraparound effort work together to take steps to translate the Wraparound philosophy into concrete policies, practices and achievements that work across systems.
- Fiscal policies and sustainability: The community has developed fiscal strategies to support and sustain Wraparound and to better meet the needs of children and youth participating in Wraparound.
- Access to needed supports and services: The community has developed mechanisms for ensuring access to the Wraparound process as well as to the services and supports that Wraparound teams need to fully implement their plans, including evidence-based interventions.
- Human resource development and support: The system supports Wraparound staff and partner agency staff to fully implement the Wraparound model and to provide relevant and transparent information to families and their extended networks about effective participation in Wraparound.
- Accountability. The community implements mechanisms to monitor Wraparound fidelity, service quality, and outcomes, and to oversee the quality and development of the overall Wraparound effort.
WHO IS WRAPAROUND AVAILABLE TO?
Wraparound services are available to families of youth age 0 through 21, who present multiple needs that cannot be met by a single service provider. This planning process is a child-centered, family-focused collaborative effort to enhance families’ opportunities for success. Any single agency may meet the needs of families referred to Service Coordination and the Service Coordination Mechanism will not replace that or any agency’s role. If that agency, with the family’s approval, feels that collaboration with other agencies is necessary to meet the needs of the family, the Service Coordination can then be initiated.
WHO DO I CONTACT ABOUT WRAPAROUND SERVICES?
To make a referral for wraparound services, please enter your information below and our Wraparound Coordinator will contact you.
Referrals: either fill out the contact information below or download the referral form and email to: wraparound.ottawaco@gmail.com
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