A program offering supportive services to youth and their families when young people have completed a treatment program and returned to their home communities. Wrap-around services are provided to young people returned to the home of their family or origin, to kinship care or to foster care.
Wrap Around Services are comprehensive, home-based mental health treatment and case management services designed to support severely emotionally disturbed youth between the ages of four and twenty-one years old in the least restrictive environment. Services are provided to (1) families in which the child is at-risk for out-of-home placement; (2) families in which the child is returning to the home and community following out-of-home placement; (3) families for whom stressors are negatively impacting child and family functioning; and (4) young adults working towards independent living. In any given case, Wrap Around Services will aim to accomplish one or more of the following goals:
• to enhance or improve individual and family functioning and well-being within the context of their culture and community;
• to strengthen, stabilize, and preserve families;
• to reunite youth with their families and reintegrate youth to the community following out-of-home placement;
• to prevent, reduce, or eliminate behaviors that place a child, family, or community at-risk (including risk for psychiatric hospitalization or other out-of-home placement);
• to promote safe, stable, and nurturing family environments while maintaining or strengthening family connections; and
• to assist parents in improving their parenting skills and identifying their parental strengths while supporting parents in their efforts to care for their children.
Components of Wrap Around Services include the following: individual counseling; family counseling; case management; crisis intervention; behavior management / parenting education; and communication skills counseling. Crisis intervention services are available to clients 24 hours per day, 7 days per week through an on-call system. When case management services are indicated and provided, Wrap Around Services staff facilitate service coordination and communication among all involved providers and agencies. Wrap Around Services staff identify and connect families with natural / informal or traditional / agency-based support systems within their family or community. Wrap Around Services staff coordinate services with involved traditional / agency-based support systems through bi-monthly collaboration to include joint meetings, joint home visits and/or joint telephone conferencing. In the interim, regular communication is maintained via written or verbal reports. |
