Overview of Choices
Choices is one of only four Care Management Entities (CME) in Georgia utilizing the Nationally acclaimed High Fidelity Wraparound model. Georgia selected CHRIS Kids, through a strict application process, as a CME because our structures and processes help keep families together.
What is a Care Management Entity?
No single entity can respond to the complex needs of youth with serious emotional and behavioral challenges and needs of their families. The youth and families are often involved with multiple agencies and may also be at high risk for out-of-home care. As a result, youth and families often experience a fragmented system that is not adaptive or individualized to the families’ strengths and needs. A CME creates a single locus of accountability to serve youth and families in the community. CMEs are required to deliver intensive care coordination using a High Fidelity Wraparound Model of care. Some of the key elements of a CME are:
- Child and Family Teams, responsible for development, coordination, and monitoring of individualized plans developed in a family-driven model;
- Intensive Coordination of formal, informal and natural supports;
- Quality Assurance to assess and improve the implementation of wraparound and adherence to values;
- Utilization Management to support real time analysis of services and the cost and effectiveness of services;
- Provider Network Management, with responsibility for network recruitment, organization and support;
- Evaluation, including outcomes for youth and families served across life domains
What is Wraparound?
Wraparound is a family driven, strengths-based team approach in which all children and youth are connected to caring adults and have access to appropriate services and supports so they can be healthy, experience positive development, and live and thrive in their homes and communities. Wraparound assists families in building a team made up of people relevant to the life of the child or youth and family (e.g. family members, natural supports, service providers, community leaders, educators, etc…). Based on the family’s strengths, needs, and culture, an individualized plan of care is developed, implemented, and monitored to meet the identified goals of the family. The guiding principle of wraparound is family voice and choice or “Nothing about us without us!”- requiring that the process is driven by the perspective of the family and the child or youth. The family’s team focuses on finding services unique to the child and family’s needs.
The 10 principles of Wraparound:
- Family Voice and Choice
- Natural Supports
- Team Based
- Collaboration
- Community Based
- Persistence
- Outcomes Based
- Culturally Competent
- Individualized
- Strengths Based