THE WRAPAROUND MODEL: family voice and choice

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THE WRAPAROUND MODEL family voice and choice

• A BRIEF OVERVIEW COMPILED BY DAWN CORCORAN
• MATERIALS PROVIDED BY
• VESTENA ROBBINS/BETH ARMSTONG
• LUCILLE EBER
• PAT MILES
• KARI COLLINS
• AND A VARIETY OF OTHER PEOPLE

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What is Wraparound?

• Wraparound is . . .
• a philosophy of care that includes a definable
  planning process involving the child and family
  that results in a unique set of community
  services and natural supports individualized for
  that child and family to achieve a positive set
  of outcomes.

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WraparoundEssential Elements

• Community-Based
• Individualized, strengths-based, needs-driven
• Culturally competent
• Families as full and active partners
• Team process
• Flexibility
• Balance of resources
• Unconditional commitment
• Collaborative process results in plan
• Measurable outcomes monitored

Goldman Burns, 1999
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Wraparound Values

• Strengths-based
• Building on peoples strengths helps reduce or
  cope better with needsit also helps team members
  feel hope

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Wraparound Values

• Family is a full participant in planning

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EMPOWERING PARENTS

• The people who the plan affects most should have
  the most ownership of it
• Lucille Eber, The Art and Science of Wraparound

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Wraparound Values

• Culturally Competent
• Make sure there is someone at the table that the
  family can relate to

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Wraparound Values

• Needs-driven
• By assessing the needs carefully, we can make
  more effective plans
• Avoid the categorical approach, i.e. all kids
  with ADHD need this service

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Wraparound Values

• Individualized Planning
• Unique to the child/family to really meet their
  needs
• Avoid cookie cutter approaches

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Wraparound Values

• Find Natural Supports!
• Reduce reliance on formal (paid for) support and
  help empower the family

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Examples of Natural Supports

• Colleagues
• Friends
• Extended Family
• Neighbors
• Coaches
• Clergy

• Bus Drivers
• Babysitters/childcare providers
• School Custodian
• Crossing Guard
• Classmates

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Wraparound Values

• Service Coordination or Wraparound Facilitation
  (case management)
• The hub of the Wraparound Wheel for the
  entire Team!

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Key Ideas

• The team members represent strengths, needs and
  choices of the youth and family
• Natural support persons are important team
  members to ensure cultural fit, independence and
  sustainable change over time
• The team focuses on needs identified and
  prioritized by the family, youth and teachers
• The family feels like it is their team and their
  meeting instead of feeling like they are
  attending a meeting a system is having about them!

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So how do we start this process?!

• STEP 1 Involving the Family
• STEP 2 Building a Service Team
• STEP 3 Conducting Service Team Meetings

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Steps for Developing a Wraparound Plan
Step 1 Initial Conversations (story) Step 2
Start Meeting with Strengths Step 3 Develop a
Mission Statement Step 4 Identify Needs across
Domains Step 5 Prioritize Needs Step 6
Develop Actions Step 7 Assign Tasks/Solicit
Commitments Step 8 Document the Plan Evaluate,
Refine, Monitor Transition, Celebrate
Successes
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Examples of meeting rules

• We only share information that is useful for
  productive problem solving
• Everyones voice is valued and respected
  everyones opinion counts
• We will be supportive rather than judgmental
• No put downs or interruptions
• We will monitor each other to remain
  strength-based

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Other rules

• The family chooses what information about them is
  shared at meetings
• All team discussions will be considered
  confidential

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Integrating Wraparound with School-wide Positive
Behavioral Interventions and Support (PBIS)

• Schoolwide systems of positive behavior supports
  help personnel feel more confident about using
  the wraparound approach
• Common Elements
• Team-based decision making
• Consensus around proactive strategies
• Ownership by those closest to student practical,
  real
• Use real data to guide interventions

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Designing School-Wide Systems for Student Success
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WRAPAROUND COMING SOON TO A THEATER NEAR YOU

• Kentucky IMPACT
• Positive Behavior Supports
• Bridges Project
• KCID Kentucky Center for Instructional
  Discipline
• KEYS Kentuckians Encouraging Youth to Succeed
• Person-Centered Planning (MR)
• Comprehensive Family Services (DCBS)

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The task is not to redesign the individual, but
to redesign the environment in order to prevent
problem behavior and ensure an acceptable
behavior is produced instead -Rob Horner