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Project Name: South County Wraparound
Project for Latino Children and Youth
Project Number: 1 KDI SM54383-01
Project Director: Jerry Endres, Institute for Community
Collaborative Studies (ICCS)
California State University, Monterey Bay
Date of Report: July 30, 2002
Municipality: Monterey CA
Staff-hired and on-job: Jerry Endres, Project Director;
Brad Richardson, Evaluator; Patty Mora, Consumer Facilitator, Jon Sagen,
Expert Consultant / Design Wraparound continuum.
Fund expended to-date: Performance objectives and expenditures
are on target. Foundation accounting is in processing fund expenditures
with paperwork following at a later date.
The following agencies: Gilroy Family Resource Center, Resources for Families
and Communities, Assemblyman Simon Salinas, Mexican American Community
Services Association, Santa Clara County Public Health Department, Santa
Clara County Department of Social Services, Family and Children Services
and Family Conferencing, Rebeckah’s Children Services, Economic
Services Organization, and Santa Clara County Department Alcohol and Drug
Abuse are current members of a stakeholder group who help coordinate this
project. They along with consumer participation (predominantly 17 -Latino
family members and young 10- young adults in the Childrens Shelter) are
in the process of developing a consensus Wraparound model for the South
County area. Members of the stakeholder group helped to identify members
of the consumer group and expedited access to the Childrens Shelter to
involve young adults who are impacted by substance abuse and mental health
issues.
1. Gilroy Family Resource Center (GFRC)
convenes key stakeholders (consumers, family members, providers, advocates,
legislative representatives, public authority representatives) and ICCS
facilitates the consensus building and decision support process, providing
monetary support for costs to ensure participation by consumers, family
members and youth. We have had meetings with both stakeholder and consumer
groups so ICCS could orient them to the SAMHSA project, Wraparound vision
and expected outcomes, schedule of activities in a workplan to build a
consensus model and funds available to support these efforts. Stipends
and childcare for consumers have been activated ensuring their involvement
for two-meeting segments at a time.
2. ICCS provides training and technical assistance
promoting the understanding and awareness of Wraparound. Rebekah’s
Children Services (member of stakeholder committee) will be presenting
their comprehensive Wraparound model in September/October. Brad Richardson,
Project Evaluator, is presenting lessons learned from the Iowa Wraparound
Plan for Latino Families.
3. ICCS provides consultation that results in conducting
a community needs assessment, developing service models, adapting Wraparound
to unique community requirements, and building a financing plan. A systems
mapping process is being employed by ICCS to graphically display how the
Wraparound services will address the needs identified, the integration
of existing services into a continuum model for service providers, and
how the exemplary practice will be deployed in a family and community
context. We have begun in the meetings with the stakeholder, consumers,
and Childrens Shelter (young adults) a mapping process to identify key
elements to adapt Wraparound for a community practices model.
4. ICCS is providing expert consultation on conducting
an evaluation of the consensus building process and outcomes. Through
coordination between the Gilroy Family Resource Center, ICCS, and the
University of Iowa (project evaluation) we have accomplished a baseline
assessment of collaboration across key agencies in the South County area.
This data is being shared with the combined stakeholder/consumer groups
in August. The discussion of these findings will be focused on readiness
and next steps for the adoption of a common Wraparound model.
5. We have completed an application for funding a training
program for the Wraparound model we adopt. The application for County
Department of Alcohol and Drug Abuse funding would support training 20
agencies a year and the testing of Wraparound effectiveness. We hope to
hear in October that this effort will be funded.
No issues at this time. Gilroy Family Resource
Center has asked that ICCS administer the funds allocated to their agency
because of the disproportionate amount of paperwork their agency requires
to make a transfer of funds.
The Project director is the main facilitator assisted
by Patty Mora the consumer group facilitator and who is bi-lingual. We
are using a conceptual mapping process with Jon Sagen’s assistance
that builds consensus as participants from consumer and stakeholder groups
identify and describe the standards and practices for an exemplary Wraparound
practice. The months of August through October will have members of both
groups assisting the development of a comprehensive continuum model of
Wraparound services.
The agenda goals and objectives for stakeholder
and consumer meetings are attached.
The stakeholder and consumer groups are fully
engaged, committed, and are assisting with the process. They are paving
the way to accessing information, programs, and potential funding. Political
interest is represented through the Assemblyman’s field representative.
The newspaper has written an article on the purpose of the SAMHSA project.
We are organized and into the adoption/consensus process moving our objectives
forward with no barriers to-date.
Attached is the network assessment tool used to
establish baseline data for agency and program collaboration readiness.
The actual data will be presented in the next quarterly report. There
were no changes to the measures from what was presented in the SAMHSA
application.
The stakeholder group is supportive to
a third party, ICCS, having the facilitation role assuring more neutrality
through the process. Having the members’ involvement in organizing
the SAMHSA application has brought us a climate of cooperation and commitment
to a Wraparound model that can be shared across agencies.
The disbursement of funds can be a bit difficult given
the amounts of paperwork required.
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