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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: October 31, 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.
Funds expended to-date: Performance objectives and expenditures are on
target. CSUMB Foundation accounting is processing fund expenditures 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 (OEO), Santa Clara County Department
Alcohol and Drug Abuse,and Santa Clara County Department of Mental Health
are current members of a stakeholder group who provide guidance and input
to this project. They along with consumer participation (predominantly
-Latino family members, clients, and youth members) are in the process
building consensus for implementing the Wraparound model for the South
County area.
1. ICCS continues to facilitate the consensus
building and design process providing monetary support for costs to ensure
participation by consumers, clients, family members and youth. Stipends
and childcare for consumers have been activated ensuring their involvement.
We’ve conducted meetings with consumers and stakeholders on August
8th, September 25th, and October 23rd.
2. Rebekah’s Children Services (member of stakeholder
committee) presented their comprehensive Wraparound model to Jerry Endres
and Jon Sagen. We adapted the Rebekah model and presented it to consumers
and stakeholders for their input. This systems mapping process is being
employed by ICCS to graphically display how the Wraparound services will
address the community and agency 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.
3. Major progress in the area of integration of consumer
and stakeholder input to adapt Wraparound to a South County model has
occurred during this quarter. We have completed a content analysis of
project meeting minutes that provides the foundation for planning. The
content analysis has been used to establish the goals and standards of
the South County wraparound model. Additionally, we organized an array
of these standards across a case management format for adoption ease.
This work has been distributed and discussed by the consumer and stakeholder
group members. We presented a visual map of the Rebekah model (local best
practice) to consumer and stakeholder groups and will soon begin discussions
with the agencies in the South County Collaborative to develop an adoption
protocol for both the wraparound continuum and standards.
4. We have designed and begun an assessment process
to validate the new wraparound standards with their cultural and community
focus. Patty Mora is interviewing the consumer group members asking them
to rate each item and provide information for their implementation. Jerry
Endres is meeting with South County agencies and programs to orient them
to the new model and assess their ratings of standards, their need and
capacity for delivering the standards in their services, and their needs
and capacity for training in each standard. Brad Richardson will analyze
the data and compare the findings from the consumer and agency respondents.
Assemblyman Simon Salinas has agreed to provide political support and
will chair a community meeting early in 2003 to establish consensus on
implementing the wraparound model across the South County region.
5. 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.
The discussion of these findings is focused on readiness and next steps
for the adoption of a common Wraparound model. Brad Richardson, Project
Evaluator, presented results from the collaboration survey and lessons
learned from the Iowa Wraparound Plan for Latino Families.
6. 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 have supported
training 20 agencies a year and the testing of Wraparound effectiveness.
We learned in October that this effort will not be funded during this
year’s cycle. Jerry Endres will meet with the program officer to
learn if this project could be funded in the next cycle.
No issues at this time.
A binder with all the aforementioned items is
included in this report.
As we progress there are many agencies that express
interest in the project. We are following up with them with an objective
of adding to the community consensus and support for the implementation
of the new wraparound model.
We were hopeful of gaining early local funding for
a 3-year implementation plan. That has not yet happened. We will continue
to look for local and national support as we build more support.
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