Joint Planning Team
The Joint Planning Teams are a unique partnership between the Allegheny
County Department of Human Services, Community Care Behavioral Health, HSAO,
Family Resources, Allegheny Children’s Initiative (ACI), and Allegheny Family
Network (AFN). The Joint Planning Teams are a pilot program in Allegheny County
utilizing the High Fidelity Wraparound Model to develop a team based, “family
driven” planning process for children and their families. These children are at
an imminent risk for a higher levels of care, are multi-system involved and in
need of complex service coordination.
High Fidelity Wraparound is a planning process that follows a series of steps to
help children/adolescents and their families realize their hopes and dreams. The
wraparound process also helps make sure children and youth grow up in their
homes and communities. It is a planning process that brings people together from
different parts of the whole family’s life. With help from a wraparound
facilitator, a family support partner and/or a youth support partner, people
from the family’s life work together, coordinate their activities, and blend
their perspectives of the family’s situation.
Wraparound may look different from one community to another and from one family
to another. Though it may look different, wraparound should always be driven by
the same ten principles: Family Voice and Choice, Team Based, Natural Supports,
Collaboration, Community-Based, Culturally Competent, Individualized, Strengths
Based, Persistence and Outcome Based. In addition, wraparound should always
follow the same basic phases: Engagement, Planning, Implementation and
Transition.
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