- Identification and Referral.
The Wraparound team leader reviews referrals and will determine whether your child and family is in need of services.
- Service Coordinator and Family Support Specialist are assigned.
These individuals will meet with your family throughout the process and will serve as advocates for you.
- Strengths and needs assessment.
The service coordinator and family support specialist help you family identify strengths and needs. You will also identify helpful and
not-so-helpful formal and informal services that are already in place.
- Preparing for a family Wraparound Team.
Your family will develop a Wraparound Team made up of the people closest to your child who want to help in the planning process. The
team may include other family members, clergy, neighbors, scout leaders, counselors, coaches, teachers, or friends.
- Initial team meeting.
The Wraparound Team will meet to gain an understanding of your issues, strengths, and resources that can work to meet your family's needs. A Service Map is developed,
including action steps and crisis plans.
- Continued planning and meeting.
Team meetings are held throughout the process to facilitate communication and work out problems that come up along the way. No meetings regarding your family will
ever be held without you. All plans and decisions are developed and implemented with your participation.
- Gaining family expertise.
You will incorporate new skills, supports, and strengths into your everyday life. You will gain confidence as your family moves toward stability.
- Moving forward.
Parent and team members become leaders. Certain services are dropped as you become more of an expert in what your family needs. The Service Coordinator is no longer needed to sustain the Service Map.
- Success.
Success will come because of the effort you put into the process. The Family Support Specialist will no longer be needed because of your confidence in moving forward successfully.
