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1. Family Well-Being
and Safety
Children and youth are supported by parents and are safe. Whole families
are involved in determining needs for services utilizing their strengths
and with adequate community resources for achieving goals. Protective
factors in the family include caring and support, high expectations for
success, children’s participation in family, schools, and community
and families are active in homes and in the community.
Standard: Parental empowerment
begins before the family becomes involved in the services system.
Standard: Family-centered services are focused on
self-direction and self-sufficiency. Parents are included in every step
of the wraparound process throughout the period where child is at-risk.
Standard: An family development assessment process
across domains identifies family strengths and needs, promotes goal
setting, decisions by the family members, and measures outcomes of functioning
for the entire family.
2. Equity:
The community understands the strengths inherent in diversity, celebrates
differences and, therefore, is committed to the development and maintenance
of a healthy socioeconomic and demographic mix. The appreciation of diversity
in the community has led to establishment of equal treatment and opportunity
for families in both economic and social transactions in the community.
Standard: Families are assured of receiving access
to the same level of quality services whenever and wherever they enter
the services system.
Standard: Service providers understand the culture
of language and maintain cultural competency to build on the unique
values, strengths, and cultural assets of the children and families.
Standard: Service information is communicated in
the primary language of the families being served using practical, non-jargon
language.
3. Service & Support Systems:
Community services of all kinds are both comprehensive and integrated
into a virtually seamless system. Collaboration and synergy are the norms.
Services are based on a wellness model and are strongly consumer driven.
Community is committed to providing resources sufficient to assure quality
and comprehensiveness and full access to community, public, and educational
services.
Standard: Agency leaders are willing to adapt service
designs to include wraparound standards of practice.
Standard: Community programs reach out to families
where they live, understanding the family’s whole situation when
providing informal activities as well as formal services.
Standard: Service supports are individualized to
meet the needs of the children and families and especially with complex
situations not designed only to reflect the priorities of the services
system.
Standard: Families are guided through the array of
services with paid peer advocates and family partners helping to navigate
and normalize the conditions and services.
Standard: Services are implemented using an inter-agency
approach and are changed as family’s needs change.
Standard: Social workers and casemanagers receive
training in a family-centered model for assessment, case management,
and evaluation. Service providers have knowledge, skills, attitudes
consistent with wraparound standards of practice.
Standard: Outcomes are measured across domains of
family development
4. Civic Capital:
Civic involvement (social and political) is high throughout the community's
socio-economic spectrum. Low-income families are fully integrated and
actively participate on boards, commissions, and committees addressing
all aspects of community life.
Standard: Community opinion leaders endorse wraparound
standards of practice.
Standard: Public forums, community meetings and community
celebrations enable Latino parents, children, and youth to engage the
community and build a network of connections that support the family.
Standard: Families take on more active roles in meetings,
communications, goal-setting decisions, and implementation of family
service plans.
5. Public Policy:
Public policy affecting the community seeks new ways to promote the well-being
of low-income families and their full inclusion in the life of the community.
Standard: Funding policies provide for adoption of wraparound standards
of practice including incentives for flexible funding.
Standard: Community examines consequences of families involved in juvenile
justice and child welfare system.
Standard: The conditions that affect family well-being
and safety as impacted by the lack of employment opportunity, affordable
housing and transportation are examined for policy.
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