Wraparound Oregon is an initiative to build a coordinated system of services and supports for children and youth with complex mental health needs who are involved in multiple systems such as child welfare, juvenile justice, mental health and special education.
This community-owned effort, based in Multnomah County, is building capacity to more effectively useexisting resources to serve the highest need, most costly children.
By designing and implementing a collaborative governance structure, consisting of formalized alliances between child-serving public and private agency professionals and families, this system change project is adapting wraparound techniques to insure higher quality services to this population.
In its third year of operations, Wraparound Oregon has made great inroads, including:
• Ensuring buy-in and commitment from major child serving systems through Inter-agency Agreement.
• Providing cross-system training and coaching on the wraparound process and system of care values and principles to broad range of community providers.
• Sharing information through an open source, web-based management information system that can be accessed via the Internet by all system partners.
• Monitoring system and service outcomes through multi-layered evaluation.
• Identifying system barriers to integrated service delivery and working to resolve problems.
• Involving families and youth in decision making at the policy, program and individual case levels.
Benefits:
• Children served in less restrictive environments and at a much lower cost.
• Youth reporting satisfaction with their involvement in case planning.
• Reduced psychiatric residential treatment or hospitalization stays.
• Reduced long-term foster care placements.
• Fewer foster care transitions.
• Less extended use of detention facilities.
• Fewer highly restrictive educational settings.
• Cost and outcome data regarding services to this population tracked in single information system that is linked with all systems.
• Public policymaking that is well informed, provides optimum service efficiency and stimulates effective system improvement.
Wraparound Oregon is funded by multiple sources:
Robert Wood Johnson, Local Initiative Partners Project - http://www.lifp.org/
Meyer Memorial Trust - http://www.mmt.org/
Paul G. Allen Family Foundation - http://www.pgafoundations.com/
Northwest Health Foundation - http://www.nwhf.org/
Oregon Community Foundation - http://www.ocf1.org/
Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention - http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration -http://www.samhsa.gov/
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Wraparound Oregon Chronology |