Dr. Jim Rast is the founder and architect of MiiWrap. The system emerged from more than 35 years of direct practice, system leadership, and evaluation work across child welfare, mental health, healthcare, and community-based human services. Jim began facilitating wraparound with children and families long before it was widely implemented, personally providing wraparound to families in rural southeast Kansas and then building local capacity by training, coaching, and supervising teams to serve hundreds of families at a time across multiple counties. His work helped introduce and sustain wraparound practice in southwest Kansas, ultimately serving thousands of children and families within a fully integrated system of care.

MiiWrap was created in response to a persistent problem Jim encountered across decades of system design and consultation: wraparound works, but only when systems actively support practitioners to implement it with skill, consistency, and fidelity. As a principal investigator on a five-year federally funded system of care project and later as a national consultant working in 34 states and 15 tribal governments, Jim repeatedly saw the gap between wraparound principles and day-to-day practice. MiiWrap was designed to close that gap: translating wraparound values into observable skills, supervision structures, coaching processes, and quality improvement mechanisms that can scale without losing what makes wraparound effective.