The Wraparound Process is a team approach to children's mental health services. Wraparound refers to the wrapping of a network of services around a youth and family in the natural home, school and community environments. Family-driven individualized service plans, creative use of resources and natural environments are the common attributes that characterize nationally-recognized service systems based on wraparound.
Rather than being limited by the traditional placements usually offered (i.e. residential, probation camps, mental health hospitals), the wraparound approach allows providers to create individualized plans drawing from people and resources built into natural environments; nontraditional providers such as parent partners, child and family specialists, friends, distant relatives, neighbors, churches and volunteers are often part of a wraparound plan for a child and family.
All services and supports must be culturally competent and tailored to the unique values and cultural needs of the child, family, and the culture that the family identifies with. The child and family team and agency staff who provide services and supports must make a commitment to unconditional care. When things do not go well, the child and family are not "kicked out", but rather, the individualized services and supports are changed. Services and supports are community-based. When residential treatment or hospitalization is accessed, these service modalities are to be used as resources and not as placements that operate outside of the plan produced by the child and family team.
For more information, please contact us at wraparound@thevillagefs.org.
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