Wraparound Services

About This Service

Individualized care plan for high-need, high-risk youth and their families.

This position helps youth and families to identify a support team who will collaboratively design a plan based upon family needs, strength, goals, and the youth’s vision.

Eligibility

Youth ages 16 up to 25 years of age.

SED (Serious Emotional Disorder) or SMI (Serious Mental Illness)

Two or More: Involved in protective services , juvenile justice services, child welfare, special education, IEP (Individualized Education Plan) with schools, and/or behavioral services.

Functional Impairment in one life domain: Education, vocation, social, housing, legal, intellectual and developmental disability.

In or at-risk of an out-of-home placement.

Duration and Referrals

  • Voluntary Program which typically last 1 year to 18 months.
  • Referral can be from any source
  • Each facilitator can only have 10 youth on the program.
  • Voluntary Program which typically last 1 year to 18 months.
  • Referral can be from any source
  • Each facilitator can only have 10 youth on the program.

Wraparound is Comprehensive, Accessible, Responsive, Effective and Strengths-Based.

  • Wraparound is a youth and family-driven, solution-focused process.
  • It utilizes the strengths of a child and family as well as their supports to create an individualized plan.
  • This plan is designed to meet the family’s needs and reach their desired outcomes.
  • Wraparound is very individualized, and places families and youth in the driver’s seat.
  • They determine what is ultimately best for their family.
  • Wraparound acknowledges the role that system advocates (e.g. juvenile justice, protective services) may be playing in the family’s life.
  • These advocates help them create strategies that meet the needs of those involved.

Through partnering with and truly listening to the youth and family, facilitators of the Wraparound process bring together a team of people to come up with ways to provide real help to the family that will last beyond their time with formal system involvement.