Wraparound services are not new to child welfare, but they must be envisioned through a more creative lens in today’s changing child welfare environment.
The Safe at Home W. V. wraparound model used by West Virginia’s Department of Health and Human Resources' (DHHR) Bureau for Children and Families is demonstrating just that. Instead of avoiding the proverbial reinvention of the wheel, West Virginia’s DHHR is looking at how wraparound services can better strengthen and empower families.
Safe at Home W.V. is a wraparound model program designed as a strengths-based service delivery system that is child- and family-driven and founded in an ongoing, outcomes-focused planning process. It is a multi-agency collaboration intended to offer flexible assistance through a coordinating agency that ensures accountability.
Save at Home W. V. is a creative response in a landscape that needs to address limited resources, a rural population and the consequences of the opioid epidemic. Importantly, DHHR is also future thinking on how the program can be expanded and enhanced under the Family First Prevention Services Act. Reinventing the wheel, if done creatively and thoughtfully, is a useful child welfare strategy because it educates stakeholders and informs practices.
Visit our website to access our exclusive Q&A about Safe at Home W.V. with Kendra Boley-Rogers, LSW, Foster Care/Homefinding Policy Specialist at the Bureau for Children and Families, DHHR.
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