Wraparound
Documents for Wraparound Seminar
What Is Wraparound?
Wraparound is a voluntary process that works to coordinate and enhance a woman/ family’s existing supports and services. Many women experience difficulties in more than one area of their lives, and are already involved with many different types of support that may not be coordinating their efforts. Or, some women have very few supportive people in their life, and want to form a circle of support for themselves and their children.
Wraparound offers a way of creating a comprehensive support network, with everyone working with a common agenda. This process has everyone sit down together to work on realistic action plans to help women meet their needs. With the help of a wraparound facilitator, a woman chooses a team of informal (friends, family, coach, teacher, minister, anyone who has "really been there" for her) and formal supports (agencies, service providers, MCFD).
Informal team members are acknowledged as the people who will be in women’s lives for a longer duration than service providers or agencies, and as people who know the woman in a different way than formal supports. The team, usually comprised of 4-10 members, is asked to commit to monthly meetings, of no more than 90 minutes. The woman identifies small and large goals, and alongside her team, works towards achieving them.
The team can generate creative solutions in response to identified needs, and, whenever possible can include options other than relying on formal service providers or agencies. The wraparound philosophy is based on "sticking with" a family; plans are adapted to fit the family rather than expecting the family to fit a plan. Wraparound recognizes that women are more complex than being a sum of their problems, and looks at the "big picture" of women’s lives.
Wraparound can happen for a couple of team meetings, or for a year; the woman decides when the process has served its purpose. The process is based on the strengths of the woman, her team, and the larger community. All services are tailored to the individual woman’s unique values, preferences, and culture.
Who Can Participate?
Women who are pregnant or early parenting (with children under age 6) who identify needing extra support, and who live in the Surrey, Delta, White Rock, Langley area. Children do not need to be in the woman’s care. This process is open to all women in this population, including women who are actively substance using, struggling with mental health issues, in first stage transitional housing, or who are homeless.
Wraparound is connected to the Maxxine Wright Place Project for 'high risk' pregnant and early parenting women.
Contact Information:
Phone: 604.587.3835
Email: wraparound [at] atira.bc.ca
