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New webinar recording available: Collaboration between youth partners and family partners in wraparound
May 13, 2020 | Maria Hermsen-Kritz
This webinar, presented by Caitlin Baird, Maria Hermsen-Kritz, and Janet Walker on April 30th, 2020, focused on strategies to optimize the connection between youth and family peer support partners when they are working together on Wraparound teams. It covered key strategies on how to collaborate as well as how to address common challenges.
Access the recording here»
New Practice Brief and Study guide available: How Youth Partners Can Collaborate With Family Partners in Wraparound
May 13, 2020 | Maria Hermsen-Kritz
A new practice brief from NWI and Pathways Research and Training Center provides guidance for youth and family partners working together on Wraparound teams to collaborate and address common challenges while supporting the youth and family. It is accompanied by a study guide which gives some possible answers to the questions raised in the scenarios in the practice brief and can be used as tool in supervision, coaching or training.
Find the brief and study guide on our featured publications page here»
New Webinar Recording and Slides Available: Peer Parent Support: Evolution, Promises and Challenges
May 12, 2020 | Maria Hermsen-Kritz
This webinar provides an overview of high quality and purposeful peer support for parents, as well as a brief history of how Peer Parent Support has been integrated into Wraparound projects. Presenters provided an evolution of peer parent support and the various ways it has been implemented within the Wraparound structure over the past 25 years, reviewing challenges and lessons learned.
Recording and slides available here»
Upcoming Webinar: A “Virtual Tampa Conference Wraparound Track”
May 6, 2020 | Maria Hermsen-Kritz
The National Wraparound Initiative and Wraparound Evaluation and Research Team invite you to join us for a webinar at which we will present Wraparound outcomes research studies planned for the 2020 Tampa Children’s Mental Health Research and Policy Conference that was sadly canceled due to COVID-19. In this 90-minute webinar, they will present findings from four studies: (1) a new meta-analysis of outcomes from 19 controlled Wraparound studies found in a systematic review, (2) a study of Medicaid costs savings from Connecticut’s Wraparound care coordination initiative, (3) a quasi-experimental study of outcomes as evaluated by the CANS instrument for Wraparound versus alternative services in a large provider organization, and (4) relationships between provider organization conditions and wraparound fidelity and outcomes.
The webinar takes place Thursday, May 21st at 2:00 pm EST. Register here»
New Wraparound Blog Post: Covid-19: Guidance from the New York Times
April 21, 2020 | Maria Hermsen-Kritz
Eric Bruns has written a new blog post highlighting new guidance from the NYT regarding the transmissibility of the Covid-19 virus
Read the blog post here»
New Blog Post: Virtual Technologies Work! Team-Based Supports and Planning
April 10, 2020 | Maria Hermsen-Kritz
Dr. John VanDenBerg, one of the founders of the Wraparound Process, has written a new blog about how to continue team-based planning in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Read the blog post here»
New Webinar Recording and Slides Available: The Document Assessment and Review Tool (DART): New Approach to Assessing Fidelity and Quality of Wraparound Care Coordination
March 10, 2020 | Maria Hermsen-Kritz
In this webinar hosted by the TA Network on February 5, 2020, Eric Bruns, Philip Benjamin and Lydia Andris of the University of Washington Wraparound Evaluation and Research Team (WERT) introduced DART, a new measure of the Wraparound Assessment and Fidelity System (WFAS). They provided the background and context for the development of the DART and describe the instrument in detail. They also explained how the DART differs from other Wraparound fidelity measures, and provided information on the training and time commitment for data collection and share approaches to sampling and preliminary data on inter-rater reliability.
WrapStat, the new fidelity and outcomes monitoring system, is coming in September
March 6, 2020 | Maria Hermsen-Kritz
WrapStat, a new online fidelity and outcomes monitoring system designed specifically for Wraparound, and for users of Wraparound Fidelity and Assessment System tools, will launch in September 2020. Find out more at the website of the University of Washington Wraparound Evaluation and Research Team (UW WERT).
The system’s pilot test begins in May and the launch is September 1, 2020.
Read Eric Bruns’ blog post about the new system.
NWI Site Discontinuing Membership
December 16, 2019 | Emily Taylor
As of January 1, 2020 the NWI site will discontinue its Membership program. At that time, the NWI Membership Directory will no longer be accessible.
Latest Wraparound Research Updated
December 16, 2019 | Emily Taylor
As a service to the NWI community, we regularly monitor the latest journal articles to identify the most recent research pertaining to Wraparound. Then we add the article details to the Latest Wraparound Research page on this site. Earlier this month two recent journal articles related to Wraparound were added.
Visit the Latest Wraparound Research page to read the article abstracts»