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What is WrapAround? 

​WrapAround is a process where the strengths, culture and challenges of a youth and their family are identified and a plan is developed that provides both formal and informal supports to assist the youth and their family to have safety, stability, and success.
Your family may benefit from WrapAround Services if you and/or your child are experiencing a combination of the following:

  • Difficulty in school
  • Behavioral issues
  • Aggressive or violent behaviors
  • Difficulty following the rules
  • Court involvement and/or court diversion
  • Involvement with Child Protective Services
  • Mental Health issues
  • Drug and/or alcohol involvement
  • Difficulty in coordinating multiple services
What can the family expect?
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The WrapAround Coordinator introduces the WrapAround process to the family, helps identify the service providers and other people that provide natural supports to the youth and family. The process includes: 
Step I :   Engagement 
  • Service Coordinator explains the process to the family
  • The family shares their concerns, needs, hopes and dreams
  • The family identifies the service providers involved with the youth and family
  • The family identifies the people that provide natural support :
  • Extended family members
  • Friends of youth and family
  • Community supports like clergy, youth ministers, coaches and other program leaders
  • Immediate Crisis Stabilization Plan may be developed as needed
Step III :     Developing a Plan 
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Your identified team members come together with the youth and family to work with your Wraparound Service Coordinator to :

  • Develop a team mission that your team will work on together
  • Look at the youth and family strengths
  • Look at the youth and family needs and prioritize those needs
  • Develop a Plan where several different ways to meet a prioritized need are matched with identified strengths
  • Together your team decides what the responsibilities and tasks will be for each member
Step II:  A Strengths, Needs, Culture, Discovery is completed that includes 
  • Youth and family individual strengths and achievements
  • Youth and family needs
  • Family culture, family beliefs and traditions
  • What has worked for the youth and family in the past
  • Family vision: what would make you feel the youth is safe and successful
  • Input from others involved with youth and family


​Step IV :     Working the Plan

Your team comes together regularly to review the Plan.  As a team you will :
  • Review and celebrate accomplishments
  • Review the plan to decide if it is working and make changes if needed
  • Assign new tasks to team members
  • Review prioritized needs and identify the next need to work on as a team
WrapAround Coordinator:

​Chris Shaffer, LSW
The Counseling Center of Wayne and Holmes Counties
2285 Benden Drive    
Wooster, OH 44691    
(330) 264-9029

Photograph by Kristin Labbe.