About High Fidelity Wraparound
High Fidelity Wraparound is a holistic method of service tailored to a family’s unique needs. It uses a team-based approach to design a plan that helps families learn to identify their strengths and use those to build strategies that mitigate conflict. Goals are developed that are measurable, observable and specific for each identified need and the team provides options so that the plan reflects the family’s values and culture. EYS is committed to following all 10 principles of the Wraparound process.
THE TEN PRINCIPLES OF WRAPAROUND
Family voice and choice, Natural support systems, Culturally-competent, Community-based, Team-based, Individualized, Strengths-based, Collaboration and integration, Unconditional care and persistence, Outcome-based.
Evidence suggests that High Fidelity Wraparound can produce significantly better outcomes for youth and families with multiple and complex needs than traditional approaches that are not individualized. Some of the benefits are:
The Ten Principles of High Fidelity Wraparound
Individualized
The team develops and implements a customized plan for each family to achieve it’s own identified goals.
Family Voice & Choice
Family and youth perspectives are intentionally elicited and prioritized during all phases of the wraparound process. Planning is grounded in family members’ perspectives, and the team strives to provide options and choices such that the plan reflects family values and preferences.
Culturally-competent
The wraparound plan demonstrates respect for and builds on the values, preferences, beliefs, culture, and identity of the child and family.
Community-based
The wraparound team implements service and support strategies that take place in the most inclusive, most responsive, most accessible, and least restrictive settings possible; and that safely promote child and family integration into home and community life.
Team-based
The wraparound team consists of the individuals agreed upon by the family and committed to the family through informal, formal, and community support and service relationships.
Unconditional Care & Persistence
A wraparound team does not give up on, blame, or reject children, youth, and families. When faced with challenges or setbacks, the team continues working toward meeting the youth and family’s needs and achieving the goals in the wraparound plan until the team agrees that a formal wraparound process is no longer necessary.
Natural Support Systems
The team actively seeks out and encourages the full participation of team members drawn from family members’ networks of interpersonal and community relationships. The wraparound plan reflects activities and interventions that draw on sources of natural support.
Outcome-based & Responsible
Each family, with it’s team, creates a strengths-based plan tied to measurable indicators of success and revises the plan as needed.
Collaboration & Integration
Team members work cooperatively and share responsibility for developing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating a single wraparound plan. The plan reflects a blending of team members’ perspectives, mandates, and resources. The plan guides and coordinates each team member’s work towards meeting the team’s goal.
Strength-based
The wraparound process and the wraparound plan identify, build on, and enhance the capabilities, knowledge, skills, and assets of the child and family, their community, and other team members.