Mary Jo Meyers WrapCT Presents: Building a System of Care Utilizing the Wraparound Process
Mary Jo Meyers Three Levels of Change Needed Practice Program System
Mary Jo Meyers If you only work on practice and fail to work on system and program you get...
Mary Jo Meyers Turbo Care Management
Mary Jo Meyers If you only work on program and fail to change practice and system you get…...
Mary Jo Meyers Hardening of the Categories Agency / Program Isolation Repackaged Categorical Services Lack of Community Buy-In Lack of Cross System Involvement
Mary Jo Meyers If you only work on system and fail to change program and practice you get…...
Mary Jo Meyers The Amazing Exploding Triangle Unstable base of care Mid-level services in chaos Client’s experience random access to services Loss of mission, vision and value Top down without bottom up
Mary Jo Meyers System Of Care Incorporates a broad array of services and supports organized into a coordinated network Integrates care planning and management across multiple levels Is culturally and linguistically competent Builds meaningful partnerships with families and youth at service delivery and policy levels Building Systems of Care: A Primer Sheila A. Pires, Spring 2002
Mary Jo Meyers System of Care Guiding Principles Comprehensive, incorporating a broad array of services and supports Individualized Provided in the least restrictive, appropriate setting Coordinated both at the system and service delivery levels Involve families and youth as full partners Emphasize early identification and intervention
Mary Jo Meyers process and an approach. not a program or a service not a program or a service Wraparound IS...
Mary Jo Meyers Categorical Approach Assess Problems Look at Services that are Available… Plug Services into the Family
Mary Jo Meyers Examples of a Categorical Approach Services reflect what’s available and has been tried rather than what’s really needed
Mary Jo Meyers Community Based Strengths Technology Cluster Technology Cluster Unconditional Care Normalization Cultural Competency Collaboration Needs Driven Refinancing Family Centered System Integration Wraparound: A Cluster of Technologies Tied to Core Values
Mary Jo Meyers Steps for Developing an Individualized Plan Step 1:Getting to Know the Family Step 2:Start Meeting with Strengths Step 3:Family Identifies Vision Step 4:Team Identifies Needs Step 5:Prioritize Needs Step 6:Action Planning Step 7:Commitments Step 8:Evaluation Step 9:Documentation Step 10:Crisis Planning
Mary Jo Meyers Social/Fun Mental Health Family A Place to Live School/Work Cultural Spiritual Safety Legal Medical/Health Finances Relationships Other Life Domain Areas for Planning
Mary Jo Meyers Challenges to Best Practice Encouraging & sustaining creativity in staff generated solutions Integrating Wraparound values with mandates Evaluating current program practices against the values base Giving up own turf in order to meet needs of families Ensuring line staff have skills which match values base All staff committed to Value Base
Mary Jo Meyers Issues of Fidelity to the Model Current Service Driven Practice Standard QA/QI Measures Local Community Buy In Partnership Challenges and Fragmentation Leadership and Lack of Commitment to True Change
Mary Jo Meyers Committing to Change Assure consumer access to care that is based on family choice based on family choice strength based strength based culturally sensitive culturally sensitive enhances the quality of daily living enhances the quality of daily living provides families the right thing at the right time in the right way provides families the right thing at the right time in the right way
Mary Jo Meyers “Vision is the ability to see beyond to see beyond the majority.” Charles R. Swindel “Vision is the ability to see beyond to see beyond the majority.” Charles R. Swindel
Mary Jo Meyers For more information contact: For WrapCT-Tim Marshall For Training, content and materials- Mary Jo Meyers, MS.,