Training staff to listen to these perspectives and communicate throughout service delivery embodies the Wraparound Principles and enhances the JRI service model. JRI’s use of the Wraparound Approach prioritizes family voice and youth voice into the treatment planning process. This session will review the 10 Principles and discuss how they are integrated throughout the Team process.

A set of 10 Principles guide the wraparound process. This session will assist participants in enhancing team participation, review best practices based on Wraparound principles and philosophies, and ways to better assist families to define functional strengths and needs, and build upon their informal and natural supports. It will briefly cover the process of the child and family team meeting and the standards for facilitating family team meetings using the wraparound approach. This training will provide an overview of the activities involved in the 4 phases of Wraparound:ġ) Engagement 2.) Initial Plan Development 3.) Implementation 4.) Transition. This session will introduce the participants to the Wraparound philosophy, approach and implementation within the Children’s Behavioral Health Initiative. Wraparound is an intensive method of engaging with individuals with complex needs (most typically children, youth, and their families) so that they can live in their homes and communities and realize their hopes and dreams. Wraparound- 4 Phases and the Child and Family Team Meeting This session will give participants an overview of the CBHI initiative, related services and Medical Necessity Criteria for service authorization.Ī System of Care is “a comprehensive array of mental health and other necessary services which are organized into a coordinated network to meet the multiple and changing needs of children and their families.” This training will provide an overview of System of care Philosophy that encourage maximizing effective Wraparound implementation through nurturing, creating and strengthening formal and informal community processes that support care planning teams in their work. The Children’s Behavioral Health Initiative is an interagency initiative of the Commonwealth’s Executive Office of Health and Human Services whose mission is to strengthen, expand and integrate Massachusetts state services into a comprehensive, community-based system of care, to ensure that families and their children with significant behavioral, emotional and mental health needs obtain the services necessary for success in home, school and community. Introduction to the Children’s Behavioral Health Initiative (CBHI)

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