Calendar of Events

One of the critical practice pillars found in Wraparound is the discovery and application of strengths in bringing together teams and crafting individualized plans with families. Participants in this session will explore the development and application of an inventory of strengths to be used in the care planning process. Practice patterns that support the discovery, documentation, and dissemination of strengths will be examined and practiced. A framework for understanding strengths in a detailed way will be explored in order to support participants to do this work well in the field.

Care Coordinators providing High Fidelity Wraparound experience multiple ethical challenges in their daily work. This training will introduce the Care Coordinator and their Supervisors to ethical issues commonly encountered in Wraparound and strategies for managing them. This training will include the following content areas: 1) Managing confidentiality in Wraparound; 2) Maintaining professional boundaries with all child and family team members; 3) Professional responsibilities for mandated reporting; 4) Working within your scope of practice; and 5) Managing ethical dilemmas.

Moderate Care Coordination (MCC), model specific training explores the core functions of wrapround informed care coordination principles and practices. Participants will examine how the wraparound practice pillars are applied within the constructs of the wraparound informed model, MCC.

One of the four pillars of wraparound practice is the identification and utilization of unmet need statements within the care planning process. Participants in this session will gain an understanding of unmet need statements as a tool for articulating the underlying conditions that give rise to the challenges faced by individuals and families. Participants will learn ways to use need statements to frame concerns held by youth and families in a way that speak to the “why” rather than simply the “what” of a situation. Participants will learn to use this framework in supporting teams to build effective help and support plans with families they get to serve.

This 3-hour introduction is designed to provide a broad overview of the spirit, concepts and skills of Motivational Interviewing. It is intended to suggest ideas for support professionals about arranging conversations to strengthen a person’s own reasons for and commitment to change. Proficiency in using these skills requires significant time and supported practice investments. While some skills, or thoughts about different ways engaging with others, will be immediately useful, this training is a necessary and introductory first step to more fully incorporating Motivational Interviewing skills in helping relationships.

One of the four pillars of wraparound practice is teaming for planning and delivering help and support with families. This session will explore the unique nature of wraparound teams, the ways in which they are similar to and vary from other team-based approaches. Qualities and features of effective teams will be reviewed with an emphasis on helping participants identify practice patterns that will support the development of effective teams in the Care Coordination process. Aspects of team membership and member support will be highlighted.

This training will provide participants with a foundation understanding of youth and family crisis cycles, including risk factors, drivers and effective response strategies. Participants will take foundational principles learned and be able to translate this into the development of an appropriate youth and family crisis and safety plan. The session will focus on identifying and clarifying the Care Coordinators role, as well as other multi-disciplinary child and family team members’ role in the crisis and safety planning process.

This 3-hour introduction is designed to provide a broad overview of the spirit, concepts and skills of Motivational Interviewing. It is intended to suggest ideas for support professionals about arranging conversations to strengthen a person’s own reasons for and commitment to change. Proficiency in using these skills requires significant time and supported practice investments. While some skills, or thoughts about different ways engaging with others, will be immediately useful, this training is a necessary and introductory first step to more fully incorporating Motivational Interviewing skills in helping relationships.

This training will cover core skills and tasks necessary for facilitating effective High-Fidelity Wraparound (HFWA) meetings. Topic areas included are HFWA meeting format and structure, pre-meeting planning tasks, and team formation and member engagement. Examples of micro skills frequently utilized (redirecting, reframing, summarizing, validation, reflecting) will be illustrated.

One of the practice pillars of wraparound is “Determined by Family”, often articulated as “family voice and choice”. This training will provide participants with skills and understanding about how this critical feature of the process can be implemented in ways that assure family voice and choice in valid ways throughout the Care Coordination process. Participants will explore a brief history of efforts to build inclusive settings for families in the care process, tools for understanding family perspective, and opportunities to help others around a family align with this perspective in their interactions with families and teams.