The person in this role facilitates the development of a child and family team and plan, insuring the presence of mutual respect, teamwork, shared responsibility, and decision making, which is youth and family driven. Likewise, the facilitator or team members may take on some functions of case management. Different individuals may assume the role of facilitator, depending on the child/family circumstances. While this may sound similar to case management, it is different in that a facilitator works within a team structure that guides collaboration and consensus decision-making as a collective body ensuring youth and family voice and choice throughout the process.
These supports and services are non-categorical, community based and allocated by frequency and duration based upon team consensus.Ī person functioning in the role of Wraparound Facilitator/ Care Coordinator guides team development and oversees the process and tasks of the team in order to develop a comprehensive plan of care. Wraparound interventions are flexible non-categorical services and supports because the approach is multi-faceted, taking all aspects of the child and family history and current life situation into account.įamilies, who are referred to Family Team Conferencing (FTC)/Care Planning, benefit from services that are carved out to meet their specific needs. In wraparound planning, the needs of the family drive the services.Ī Wraparound Plan is continually reviewed and modified based on the child and family’s developing strengths and evolving needs. Historically, families’ needs had to fit into categorical “one size fits all” types of available services. It is essential that all services are developed cooperatively and become integrated into the Care Planning process.Ī wraparound team shares responsibility, expertise, ownership and mutual support while designing creative services intended to meet an individual’s strengths and needs across all domains of life. Therefore, interagency coordination is an integral part of the Wraparound planning process. Many times children and their families have needs that cross over agency boundaries. These fundamental principles merge with a “whatever it takes” philosophy that embodies an unconditional commitment to team development, family empowerment and outcome based interventions. Wraparound is not something that you “get”, it’s something you “do” it’s a process, not a program or a service. It is a value base and an unconditional commitment to create services on a “one kid, one family at a time” basis to support normalized and inclusive options for youth and families with complex needs.
It is not a program or a type of service. The wraparound model is based on individualized, needs driven planning and services. In the spirit of the popular belief, “It takes a village to raise a child,” Wraparound is an intervention strategy in which families are supported and encouraged toward their goals through the joint efforts of the people who are professionally or socially involved in their lives. With assistance of facilitators, often referred to as Care Coordinators, along with parent professionals, often referred to as Family Partners, the team works together toward a unified vision and creation of a plan of care.
Wraparound series#
Wraparound follows a series of steps to strengthen and support families and help them realize their hopes and dreams. Team members then implement the plan and continue to meet regularly to monitor progress and tailor the plan to meet the changing needs of the family. By bringing people together from different parts of the family’s life, the family team drafts a plan of care driven by the youth and family that include the family vision, strengths and needs, with the goal of keeping the family together, safe and in the community or least restrictive setting possible. The wraparound process brings families, providers, and key members of the family’s social support network together to collaborate to build a customized plan of care that responds to the unique needs of the child and family. Wraparound is a team-based planning process intended to provide individualized, coordinated, family-driven care to meet the complex needs of children, youth and families who are involved with various child and family serving systems who are at risk of placement in institutional settings, and who may experience emotional, behavioral, safety, or mental health difficulties.
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