COC uses High Fidelity Wraparound to provide intensive care coordination for your child and your family. Wraparound is an effective, evidence-based process of care coordination and planning that builds on the collective action of a team which helps the family reach their vision for the future. This team, called the Child & Family Team, includes youth, families, natural supports, and professional service providers.
Through monthly meetings, your Child & Family Team will develop a community-based plan of care that includes strategies to ensure youth and their families can experience success in their communities, homes, and schools. If therapeutic admission is necessary, we strive for solid discharge planning that is short term and includes a return to the home and community.
COC augments existing resources to ensure:
- Youth have access to a full array of services that allow them to be served in the least restrictive, most appropriate setting
- Families have the necessary supports that allow them to experience continued success long after wraparound care coordination has ended
Wraparound is an evidence-based initiative led by the National Wraparound Implementation Center, which provides training for COC staff.
A wraparound facilitator will meet with your family to discuss the wraparound process and listen to your family’s story. They will discuss your concerns, needs, hopes, dreams, and strengths.
Your family will describe your vision for the future. You will identify people who care about you as a family as well as people you have found helpful for each family member. You will reach an agreement with the wraparound facilitator about who will come to a meeting to develop a plan and establish where that meeting should be held.
This phase takes several meetings over 1-2 weeks.
You will attend your first Child & Family Team meeting with the wraparound facilitator, the people who are providing services to your family as well as those who are connected to you in a supportive role. The Child & Family Team will:
- Write a mission statement about what you will be working on together
- Look at your family’s needs
- Explore several different ways to meet those needs that match up with your strengths; and
- Designate tasks that each team member has agreed to take on
This will become your wraparound plan, which is based on the strengths and needs of the family and uses services and supports that are traditional along with those that are creative and non-traditional such as respite, mentoring, tutoring, community activities, parent training, and more.
When this phase is over, everyone will leave knowing what they have to do and how to contact other team members.
This phase takes 1-2 team meetings within 1-2 weeks.
Your Child & Family Team will attend regular meetings where four things will happen:
- Review accomplishments (what has been done and what’s been going well)
- Assess whether your plan has been working to achieve your goals
- Make adjustments to what is not working
- Assign new tasks to team members
This phase continues until your family gets the result you need.
Even though transitions happen throughout the process, there is a point when you will no longer need to meet regularly with the team.
Completion may involve a final meeting of the whole team, a small celebration, or simply saying that you are ready to move on. As a family, you will get a record of what you did as well as a list of what worked. You will also make a plan for the future, including who you can call on if you need help or if you need to reconvene your team.
- FAMILY VOICE AND CHOICE
Family and youth/child perspectives are intentionally elicited and prioritized during all phases of the wraparound process. Planning is grounded in family members’ perspectives, and the team strives to provide options and choices such that the plan reflects family values and preferences. - TEAM-BASED
The wraparound team consists of individuals agreed upon by the family and committed to them through informal, formal, and community support and service relationships. - NATURAL SUPPORTS
The team actively seeks out and encourages the full participation of team members drawn from family members’ networks of interpersonal and community relationships. The wraparound plan reflects activities and interventions that draw on sources of natural support. - COLLABORATION
Team members work cooperatively and share responsibility for developing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating a single wraparound plan. The plan reflects a blending of team members’ perspectives, mandates, and resources. The plan guides and coordinates each team member’s work towards meeting the team’s goals. - COMMUNITY-BASED
The wraparound team implements service and support strategies that take place in the most inclusive, most responsive, most accessible, and least restrictive settings possible and that safely promote child and family integration into home and community life. - CULTURALLY COMPETENT
The wraparound process demonstrates respect for and builds on the values, preferences, beliefs, culture, and identity of the child/youth, family, and their community. - INDIVIDUALIZED
To achieve the goals laid out in the wraparound plan, the team develops and implements a customized set of strategies, supports, and services. - STRENGTHS-BASED
The wraparound process and the wraparound plan identify, build on, and enhance the capabilities, knowledge, skills, and assets of the child and family, their community, and other team members. - PERSISTENCE
Despite challenges, the team persists in working toward the goals included in the wraparound plan until the team reaches agreement that a formal wraparound process is no longer required. - OUTCOME-BASED
The team ties the goals and strategies of the wraparound plan to observable or measurable indicators of success, monitors progress in terms of these indicators, and revises the plan accordingly.