Family Supportive Environment. List and describe the supports, such as the use of parent partners and peer advocates, provided to insure that children, youth and family members understand the program’s nature and processes and have adequate and effective voice and participation? The San Bernardino RBS System will have four primary components that will operate directly to insure a family-supportive environment. First, Xxxxxx will assign a parent partner who has been a primary caregiver or close family member of a youth with severe emotional disabilities placed out of the home in high level care for extended periods of time. Second, Xxxxxx will have a Family Clinician dedicated to family engagement and finding for the purpose of providing opportunities for the youth to develop lasting relationships with relatives that will extend beyond the RBS system of care. Third, the RBS plan of care development and implementation process is client and family-driven with transition beginning at intake. Fourth, a Parent Partner will serve on the Oversight Committee so that there is a family voice present in utilization review and management. Each of its components (engagement, planning, implementation and transition) requires active youth and family involvement. Strengths can only be identified in the context of the youth and family‟s stories of ways that they have coped with big challenges in the past; critical unmet needs only emerge through a dialogue with the youth and family members in which potential unmet needs are posited, tested and honed, until the point of focus becomes clear to both them and their Care Coordination Team. Goals have to flow directly from the youth and family‟s own vision of what it would be like to be doing okay. Without clearly identified strengths, needs and goals, there is no plan. Family involvement isn‟t just a good idea, it‟s essential for progress. In general VTC‟s Family Inclusion Model will ensure family members and youth have choice to participate in: selecting members of their Care Coordination Team. selecting providers and services, whenever possible. selecting Family Partners and Youth Advocates (from the community and from within the residential provider organization). selecting providers they deem respectful of and responsive to their cultural and linguistic preferences. The model also calls for: o Field trips that include Parents, Family members or Relatives (PFR) as a common practice o PFR dinner nights participating in cooking a special favorite meal at the...
Family Supportive Environment. List and describe the supports, such as the use of parent partners and peer advocates, provided to insure that children, youth and family members understand the program’s nature and processes and have adequate and effective voice and participation? Each of Los Angeles County‟s Wraparound phases (engagement, planning, implementation and transition), which will be incorporated into Open Doors Project, requires active child and family involvement. Generally speaking, families will be engaged in the process from RMP meeting to graduation, will have full access to their children in the facility, will drive treatment and life decisions, and will have active voice and choice in CFT meetings. The system will have four primary components that will operate directly to insure a family-supportive environment. First, providers will assign parent partners who were primary caregivers of children with severe emotional disabilities and preferably who had children who were placed out of the home in high level care for extended periods of time. Second, all three programs will utilize parent and youth advisory groups to obtain feedback about the program. Third, all three programs will have a Family Finder dedicated to family engagement and empowerment, and will supervise all milieu staff to a family-centered trauma-informed practice model. Fourth, the Open Doors plan of care development and implementation process that will be the foundation of the Los Angeles County Open Doors System is family-driven as demonstrated by active family participation on CFT, the Open Doors Advisory Group and the Open Doors Roundtable.
