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Community Values WRAPAROUND / SYSTEM OF CARE A "system of care" refers to how a community comes together to agree on a vision, corresponding structures and practice that will support effective efforts to help children and families with serve and support needs. Effective systems of care that make a significant commitment to wraparound practice show the following values in the system’s structure and practice: Value One - Persistent Commitment. When communities make a commitment to help a child or family, they embrace stability and permanence as fundamental rights. To accomplish this they create a system where services and supports are delivered with a corresponding commitment to never give up on the child or family, changing the plan instead of rejecting the child and family from services and supports. Communities recognize that the needs of families can be complex; change is sometimes very difficult to achieve, and commit to a mutual process of extreme persistence in the delivery of services and supports. To accomplish this goal is for every child to live with their family in their community and be included in the normal activities of community life. Value Two – Child Centered. Services and supports are provided in the best interest of the child to ensure that the child's needs (physical, emotional, educational, spiritual, safety and permanence) are being met. In almost all cases services and supports should maintain and strengthen a relationship between the family of origin and the child. All components of the System of Care recognize the need and value of permanent stable relationships and strive to ensure these for all children and youth. |
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Value Four - Safety (Child, Family, and Community). Services and supports are developed to best ensure the safety of the child, family, and community. Discussions and plans are based on an assessment of risk to the child, family and the community. Plans are developed to reduce these risks. For children who pose a threat to the community or family, plans reduce at risk behaviors and protect the community and family. For children whose safety is at-risk, plans reduce these risks while protecting the child. Value Five – Individualized and Culturally Competent. Plans and supports for children and their families are individualized by child and family teams, and supported through a system of flexible services and supports. “Individualized” services and supports are tailored to the unique culture, strengths, and needs of each child and family, and may involve existing categorical services and natural supports; modifying existing services and supports; and creating new services and supports. Funding sources must be flexible to support individualization. Being “Culturally Competent” means that family racial, ethnic, and unique family cultural characteristics are discovered and used in the planning and implementation processes. Value Six - Strength Based. Services and supports are based on identified strengths of the child/family/community. This means that strengths of the child, family and community are assessed, noted, appreciated, and reflected in the design of interventions and supports. Value Seven - Family, Youth, and Professional Partnership. Family and youth knowledge of what is needed in systems and what will work for them and other families and youth is sought and utilized. Interactions between professionals and families and youth are conducted in a mutual “no blame – no shame” fashion. Families and youth fully-participate in strategic planning for System of Care development. Families are involved in the hiring and evaluation of staff, in the evaluation and planning of the overall System of Care. A wide range of and numbers of families are involved in order to get representative input. Value Eight - Collaboration and Community Support. Collaboration between agencies, schools, community resources (e.g., service organizations, churches, and businesses) and families is the best way to build effective services and supports for individuals/families with complex needs. Wherever the needs of children and families go beyond what any one entity can provide, agencies, schools, community resources and other families work together to meet these needs. In addition, these entities engage in ongoing strategic planning to improve the System of Care. Value Nine - Social Networks and Informal Supports. People are supported through community and family social networks and informal community resources. To avoid dependency on systems, services and supports focus on building and strengthening social networks and natural supports of family, friends, and community resources for children and families. Value Ten - Outcome Based and Cost Responsible. Services and supports are outcome based with clear accountability. Plans for children and families have clear outcomes that guide services and supports to transition and completion. Quantitative and qualitative data on the performance of the staff in the System of Care are the basis for a strengths-based performance evaluation. Integrated outcome information is used as a tool by families, staff, and policy makers to plan and develop systems of care. “Cost-effective” services and supports blend formal and informal resources that are consistently reviewed to ensure responsible financial utilization. "Cost Responsible" means that local communities control the expenditure of funds to best meet the needs of all children and families in their geographical area.
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