WRAP Overview
House Bill 2144 passed the 2009 legislative session providing statutory direction for the Wraparound Initiative. DHS is identified as the lead agency.
Phase 1 will focus primarily on children in the custody of DHS for more than one year and who have had at least 4 placements, and will also be inclusive of children who have behavioral, emotional and/or mental health conditions severe enough to warrant direct entry into the wraparound system at the highest level of care.
DHS will be tracking the following metrics and benefits that will indicate how well DHS is supporting the Children’s Wraparound Initiative :
- Decreased time to access services
- Decreased length of time receiving more expensive and higher intensity services than child is assessed as needing; decreased spending on these services
- Serving more children in a shorter length of time in mental health system
- Increased percentage of children served in their home community
- Decreased number of placement transitions and placement disruptions
- Family- and youth-driven system
- Integration of all child-serving systems
- Blended funding
- Culturally competent planning, services and oversight
- Ensuring that children and adolescents are “at home, in school, out of trouble and with friends”
- Educational/vocational progress
- Stable, homelike environment
- Safety
- Out of trouble
- Social/interpersonal support
- Mental/behavioral health
- Individual needs met
OREGON WILL HAVE:
- Single point of contact
- Family and youth voice and choice
- Least restrictive placement
- Coordinated services
- Blended resources
- Infrastructure in place
- Agencies and organizations that are accountable for outcomes
- Local accountability and responsibility
