WRAPAROUND ACROSS THE HAMILTON/NIAGARA REGION
 VISION
A vibrant network of localized Community Mobilization Teams across the Hamilton/Niagara region that provide effective community support through the use of the Wraparound process for persons/families with children, youth, or adults with multiple, complex needs so that they can have a better life on a day to day basis.
MISSION
Our mission is to develop and launch a number of localized Community Mobilization Teams across the Hamilton/Niagara region over the next year. Each of these Community Mobilization Teams will mobilize their local community by securing the necessary financial and in-kind support so that persons/families with children, youth, or adults with complex needs can be involved with the Wraparound Process. The persons/families to be served will be identified and referred by the partners involved in each local Community Mobilization Team itself as well as by other community groups and agencies operating in that local community.
WHAT IS THE WRAPAROUND PROCESS?
First and foremost, Wraparound is about developing a localized Community Mobilization Team that organizes the community to provide the Wraparound process to people/families with complex problems so that they can find solutions and have a better life.
For people/families who have been involved with the Wraparound process, they talk about Wraparound as providing them with real hope that life could be different and better on a daily basis.
Fundamental to the Wraparound process are a number of paradigm shifts which are identified as follows:
- In Wraparound, the person/family directs the planning versus the professionals directing the planning
- Wraparound plans meet the needs of the person/family versus the needs of the professionals
- Wraparound plans are built on the strengths and resources of the person/family and their team versus being based upon a disease or pathology model
- Wraparound plans are flexible and unique to each person/family versus being set and categorical
- Wraparound teams always include the person/family, their community support people and the professionals that they find helpful versus the team being made up of just the professionals involved
- Wraparound teams meet as often as needed by the person/family and usually at least once a month versus traditional case conferencing that usually has the team meet only every three months
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