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What is Wraparound?
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The Mississippi Wraparound Institute (MWI) offers training, coaching, and technical assistance to certified Wraparound providers in the state of Mississippi. MWI also provides community outreach and engagement of stakeholders.
MWI targets state, organizational, and front-line staff to ensure that high-fidelity, high-quality care coordination is offered to families with complex needs in the state of Mississippi through Wraparound. MWI utilizes the National Wraparound Implementation Center’s model to train and coach certified agency staff to coordinate care for youth at risk of being placed outside of their homes and involved in multiple systems.
Though every family’s situation is different; wraparound may look different from one family to another however the process of wraparound should always be driven by the same 10 principles.
- Family Voice and Voice
- Individualized
- Strength-Based
- Natural Supports
- Collaboration
- Unconditional Care
- Community-Based
- Culturally Competent
- Team-Based
- Outcome-Based
High Fidelity Wraparound is also always based on 4 key elements.
- Grounded in a Strengths Perspective
- Driven by Underlying Needs
- Supported by an Effective Team Process
- Determine by Families
Vision
Mississippi will lead the nation with professionals who are well trained and dedicated
to providing high-fidelity Wraparound that results in empowerment and real-life solutions
for families.
The Mississippi Wraparound Institute is a partnership between The University of Southern Mississippi’s School of Social Work and the Mississippi Department of Mental Health. The institute was developed to assist the State of Mississippi and the State’s child-serving agencies and their identified partners with efforts to (1) accomplish successful development of integrated systems of mental and behavioral health that follow the principles of the high-fidelity Wraparound model and (2) successfully implement and sustain Wraparound facilitation as a service.
Mission
To provide support and resources to child serving agencies that utilize high-fidelity Wraparound principles and philosophies, and our community and state partners.
Dr. Susan Hrostowski, Ph.D., MSW, MDiv
Principal Investigator
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Elizabeth McDowell, LMSW
Director
National Wraparound Implementation Center (NWIC) Local Coach and Trainer
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Tara Butzlaff, LCSW
Mississippi Wraparound Specialist
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Melissa Coker
Project Manager
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Nationally Certified State Partners
Vanessa Huston, LPC-S
National Wraparound Implementation Center (NWIC) Local Coach and Trainer
Choices Coordinated Care Solutions
Introduction to Wraparound (Virtual) - TBA
Engagement in Wraparound (Virtual) - TBA
Wraparound Wednesday - TBA
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Introduction to the Wraparound Process
The first training in the series for frontline wraparound practitioners, supervisors,
and directors as well as community partners who may participate in a child and family
team process. Through attendance at this 3-day training, participants will be able
to:
- Gain an understanding of the critical components of the Wraparound process in order to provide high-fidelity Wraparound practice.
- Practice these steps of the process to include eliciting the family story from multiple perspectives, reframing the family story from a strengths perspective, identifying functional strengths, developing vision statements, team missions, identifying needs, establishing outcomes, brainstorming strategies to create a plan of care and crisis plan representing the work of the team and learn basic facilitation skills for running a wraparound team meeting.
Engagement in the Wraparound Process
The second training in the series for frontline wraparound practitioners, supervisors, and directors as well as community partners who may participate in a child and family team process. Through attendance at this one day training, participants will be able to:
- Identify barriers to engagement
- Develop skills around engaging team members and the family
- Utilize research-based strategies of engagement for increased positive outcomes for youth and their families.
Managing Wraparound
Provided for supervisors/managers in Wraparound. Through attendance at this 1-day training, participants will be able to:
- Demonstrate increased knowledge and understanding of the role of a supervisor in quality wraparound implementation.
- Utilize supportive tools to develop quality wraparound practitioners, individualized and strength based service plans and team processes.
- Transfer knowledge and skills to the workforce.
Technical Assistance/Workforce Development Services
- Agency Boosters
- Coaching Sessions
- Wraparound Team Meetings (WTM)
- Curriculum Development
- DMH Agency/Provider Registration/Certification
- Data Collection
- Integrating Wraparound in the BSW program curriculum
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For individualized concerns, please refer to your supervisor.