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The wraparound process is an intensive, individualized care management process for youths with serious or complex needs. Wraparound was initially developed in the 1980s as a means for maintaining youth with the most serious emotional and behavioral problems in their home and community. During the wraparound process, a team of individuals who are relevant to the well-being of the child or youth (e.g., family members, other natural supports, service providers, and agency representatives) collaboratively develop an individualized plan of care, implement this plan, and evaluate success over time. The wraparound plan typically includes formal services and interventions, together with community services and interpersonal support and assistance provided by friends, kin, and other people drawn from the family’s social networks. The team convenes frequently to measure the plan’s components against relevant indicators of success. Plan components and strategies are revised when outcomes are not being achieved.
The process of engaging the family, convening the team, developing the plan, implementing the plan, and transitioning the youth out of formal wraparound is typically facilitated by a trained care manager or “wraparound facilitator,” sometimes with the assistance of a family support worker. The wraparound process, and the plan itself, is designed to be culturally competent, strengths-based, and organized around family members’ own perceptions of needs, goals, and likelihood of success of specific strategies.
I have used The Home for Little Wanderers for this service, but there is SO MUCH more here in Massachusetts. It's like one-stop shopping – they will advocate for you and find the providers you need to help the child in your care. Most, if not all, foster children would benefit from this service, in addition, they will always be helpful if you should need support for your child's IEP. Its billed to MassHealth. This will also include, among other things, IHT (in-home therapy), parent-child psychotherapy, etc., and is available for children as young as two.
There is the LEAP program at Mass General and the developmental and behavior departments at both Boston Medical Center and Children's Hospital. If you call they may say there is a three-month wait, but be the advocate that you are and you will get in – my son got in within two weeks.
Also at Mass General there is thinkkids.org for children with trauma and behavioral issues.
The process of engaging the family, convening the team, developing the plan, implementing the plan, and transitioning the youth out of formal wraparound is typically facilitated by a trained care manager or “wraparound facilitator,” sometimes with the assistance of a family support worker. The wraparound process, and the plan itself, is designed to be culturally competent, strengths-based, and organized around family members’ own perceptions of needs, goals, and likelihood of success of specific strategies.
I have used The Home for Little Wanderers for this service, but there is SO MUCH more here in Massachusetts. It's like one-stop shopping – they will advocate for you and find the providers you need to help the child in your care. Most, if not all, foster children would benefit from this service, in addition, they will always be helpful if you should need support for your child's IEP. Its billed to MassHealth. This will also include, among other things, IHT (in-home therapy), parent-child psychotherapy, etc., and is available for children as young as two.
There is the LEAP program at Mass General and the developmental and behavior departments at both Boston Medical Center and Children's Hospital. If you call they may say there is a three-month wait, but be the advocate that you are and you will get in – my son got in within two weeks.
Also at Mass General there is thinkkids.org for children with trauma and behavioral issues.