Facilitator

Description

Wraparound Approach Services Program Philosophies

1. Participate in the Wraparound Approach Services Program collaborating with the County to enhance the capacity of the health and human services system to improve the lives of children and families by providing responsive, efficient and high quality public services that promote the self-sufficiency, well-being and prosperity of individuals, families and communities.
2. Participate in the Wraparound Approach Services Program that is Family-centered, strengths-based, needs-driven, planning process that supports Family voice, choice, and ownership of strategies to return or maintain children in their Community with normalized and inclusive community options, activities and opportunities which requires perseverance to create and provide a highly individualized planning process to help children and families achieve their desired outcomes.
3. Participates in the a shared model of practice, Core Practice Model, to better integrate services and supports for children, youth, families and communities, for the purpose of providing responsive, efficient high quality services that promote safety, permanency, well-being and self-sufficiency and are grounded in the crucial elements of community partnership, teamwork, cultural competence, respect, accountability, continuous quality improvement and best practice.
4. Participate in the facilitation of the Wraparound Process, which includes a Child and Family Team (CFT) for each child and family. The CFTs develop, implement, monitor and revise, as needed, uniquely tailored Child and Family Plans of Care that include the strengths, underlying needs and related strategies, services and supports to provide whatever it takes to address the needs and underlying needs that need to be clearly documented in the Child and Family Team minutes of the child and Family in order to maintain the child in a safe, nurturing, permanent, community based setting.
5. Promote the Long Term View of the child and Family which are stated, shared, and understood, safety, well-being, and permanency outcomes and functional life goals for the child and family that specify required protective capacities, desired behavior changes, sustainable supports and other accomplishments necessary for the child and family to achieve and sustain adequate daily functioning and greater self-sufficiency necessary for safe case closure.
6. Participates in the Community Based Service delivery approach within the Family’s Community that emphasizes strengthening the Family’s ability to access traditional, non-traditional and informal services that support the Family in meeting needs.
7. Participates in Intensive Care Coordination (ICC) with other Wraparound team members as it facilitates assessment, care planning and coordination of services to ensure that the team secures and coordinates all necessary services and supports.
8. Participates in Intensive Home-Based Mental Health Services (IHBS) with other Wraparound team members as it facilitates individualized, strength-based interventions designed to ameliorate mental health conditions that interfere with a child’s functioning aimed at helping the child build skills necessary for successful functioning in the home and improve the Family’s ability to help the child/youth successfully function in the home and community in all Life Domains: the areas of safety, family, legal, money matters, emotional/behavioral, school/educational, house/living environment, work/vocational, and cultural/spiritual.
9. Adapt an Engagement and Strengths Process that creates a trustful working relationship with the Child and Family by assisting them in increasing their participation, validating their unique cultural perspective and hearing their voice and choice.
10. Promote and support the use of a non-blaming, Family-centered approach that acknowledges the Family’s strengths, and focuses on ensuring that the Child and Family are active participants in identifying the Child’s needs and in finding solutions to their issues and concerns, and avoids the use of technical psychological and diagnostic language.
11. Promote Family Protective Capacity using strengths or resources that reduce or prevent threats of serious harm arising or having an unsafe impact on a child.
12. Promote Self-Sufficiency: The Family’s ability to secure the services and supports it needs to keep the child in the Community and thriving without formal assistance.
13. Promote Protective Factor Framework The foundation of the Strengthening Families Approach: parental resilience, social connections, concrete support in times of need, knowledge of parenting and child development, and social and emotional competence of children. To increase the likelihood that child abuse and neglect diminishes and are “promotive” factors that build family strengths and a family environment that promotes optimal child and youth development.
14. At all times ensure a safe environment, which provides for the well-being of each child and leads to permanence

Qualifications

Qualifications:

1. Bachelor of Art or Science Degree in Human Services, Social Work, or Psychology or

2. Three (3) years experience working with high risk children/youth in either child welfare, probation or mental health systems in Wraparound or

3. Be a family member able to facilitate their family’s Wrap team meetings.

4. Must possess valid California driver’s license and have a driving record acceptable to the Agency’s insurance carrier.

5. To reduce racial disproportionality and decrease disparity, cultural, racial and linguistically similar staff to client ratios is preferred for each team.

Specific Duties

1. Leads the individual Child Family Team by:
   1. Following the four phases of Wraparound and all the activities identified:
   2. Ensuring the principles of Wraparound and The Core Practice Model are adhered to by all team members:
   3. Ensuring that all the strengths, needs, and underlying needs are identified
   4. Ensuring all the identified services are provided in a timely and appropriate manner:
   5. Being the contact point for children, families, service providers and the Community;
   6. Ensuring the County representative(s) has adequate opportunities for input and access to the team and planning process.
2. Orient the family and youth to wraparound
3. Address legal and ethical issues
4. Elicit information from the family and youth about immediate safety issues, current crises or anticipated crises.
5. Elicit information from agency representatives and potential team members about immediate crises or potential crises.
6. If immediate response is necessary, formulate a response for immediate intervention and/or stabilization.
7. Explore strengths, needs, culture and vision with youth/child and family.
8. Prepare a strength based summary document for review by the family.
9. Solicit participation/orient family and informal team members.
10. Arrange meeting logistics.
11. Guide team in determining ground rules.
12. Describes and documents strengths from summary document to wrap team.
13. Helps child/youth and family create team mission and vision
14. Describes and prioritizes needs/goals to the team with input from the child/youth and family.
15. Determine goals and associated outcomes and indicator for each goal with input from the child/youth and family.
16. Guide the team in selecting strategies with input from the child/youth and family.
17. Ensures that team assigns responsibility for action steps.
18. Guides the team in determining potential serious risk.
19. Guides the team in discussion of each identified serious risk.
20. Completes documentation and logistics of meeting.
21. Aids completion of action steps by checking in and following up with team members.
22. Track & monitor progress on action plan.
23. Guides the team in evaluating the success of strategies.
24. Encourages the team to acknowledge and celebrate successes.
25. Guides the team in a process to consider new strategies when team determines current strategies are not working.
26. Maintains awareness of team members’ satisfaction and “buy-in.”
27. Guides the team in addressing issues of team cohesiveness and trust.
28. Maintains/updates the plan and distributes meeting minutes.
29. Seeks out or creates needed services and supports in the community.
30. Guides the team in creating a transition plan.
31. Guides the team in creating post-wraparound crisis management plan.
32. Facilitates that new members be added that reflect identified post-transition strategies.
33. Guides the team in creating a document that describes the strengths and lessons learned about strategies and facilitates participants to prepare court reports.
34. Encourage team to create and/or participate in a culturally appropriate “commencement’ celebration.
35. Leads the team in creating a procedure for checking in with the youth and family periodically after commencement.

General Responsibilities

1. Must maintain flexibility with respect to time (evenings and week-ends) and location, when scheduling meetings to accommodate Family participation and effective planning. CFTs are to be held at a place and time that is convenient for the Family. Ideally, all CFTs will be held in the family’s home.
2. Must maintain a 24-hour on-call availability unless otherwise specified.
3. Must be able to work with diverse populations and be comfortable working in a variety of environments, including family homes, schools, places of business, and in the community.
4. Must have good written and verbal communication skills.
5. Must be able to complete all paperwork as required and within scheduled time frames.
6. Utilizes Microsoft products – Outlook, Excell & Word and Electronic Case Management Program

1. Provide orientation and continuing education training for staff to equip them to meet the needs of children and families.
2. Provide ongoing Agency Orientation/Annual Training as assigned.
3. Provide other Agency Training as assigned.
4. Travel to in-home settings & transporting of clients using personal vehicle.

Training

1. Participates in all required trainings:

2. Attend and actively participate in 36 hours of Wraparound Approach training prior to working with Wraparound Children and Families.

1. Attend and actively participate in 12 hours of individualized training, including coaching for strength-needs practice, shadowing established Wraparound teams, and one-on-one mentoring of experienced staff members within 90 days of joining the Wraparound team.
2. Attend and actively participate in 16 hours per year of on-going Wraparound or related subject training that is specifically tied to the 10 principles of Wraparound or is relevant to the Wraparound target population.
3. Attend and actively participate in COUNTY provided training.
4. Must participate in the use of Evidence Based Practice Treatment Models.

Salary : $24 - $24