1. The Department of Human Services (DHS), Child Welfare Services Branch (CWSB) understands that families involved in the child welfare system may experience challenges with engaging in services. To support families with complex needs that require additional support to access resources, CWSB seeks to contract with a qualified organization to administer the CWSB “Family Wrap Hawaii” program that provides services for families and children that may need additional support services as they work towards reunification. 2. The Family Wrap Hawaii program provides wraparound services using an individualized, team-based, collaborative process to provide a coordinated set of services as follows: a. Facilitation and plan development through family team meetings to create individualized and coordinated plans that meet the needs of children and families in a holistic way. This brings together a team to help children and their families realize their hopes and dreams, and experience success in their homes, communities, and schools. Team members include government agencies, community organizations, and individuals that are involved or may be involved in the children’s and families’ lives to help achieve their goals. This process enhances and supports the CWS planning process and supports the family to achieve their goals by aligning the plans and activities and goals that the family is working towards with other agencies and resources. Information from the plans developed through these services will be included in the CWS planning documents as determined by CWS. b. Community navigation to assist the family in identifying, connecting to, applying for, and receiving services that meet their needs, c. Peer parent supports to provide parents with support from a person with lived experience to assist in navigating the child welfare system and community resources. Peer parent supports also includes general support through a parent line. d. Peer youth supports to provide parents with support from a person with lived experience to assist in navigating the child welfare system and community resources, and e. Flexible funds including the identification and administration funds to provide resources to meet the goals of the plan and needs of children and families. 3. The goal of the program services is to provide individual, intensive, comprehensive intervention and support services utilizing a coordinated planning process with additional support services as needed. 4. These services involve a paradigm shift from its traditional service delivery systems to a child and family-centered focus to address barriers that prevent productivity and forward movement, such as a lack of resources, communication, and collaboration. As the needs of the child and family change, the provision of support services and interventions are coordinated and aligned to the needs of the family through a creative and flexible process. Commitment and support are unconditional, and the youth and family are not denied support when issues arise. B. Service Goals 1. The ultimate goal is to keep children with their family (parents, adoptive parents, and legal guardians), reunify children with their families, or achieve permanency for the child with caregivers, by providing individual, intensive, comprehensive, integrated and creative strategies, intervention, and support services. 2. Utilize a family centered, strength-based, needs-driven planning processes to identify individualized services and support for children and their families; 3. Promote improved collaboration and service provision with agencies and community resources and individuals that support the family; and 4. Develop a team, connections to agency and community resources, or other connections that are accessible and supportive to families when contract services ends. C. Service Outcomes 1. Parents feel more engaged in the planning process; 2. Children feel more engaged in the planning process; 3. Parents report that the service helped to create a more individualized plan and/or services that led to improved outcomes. 4. Children report that the service helped to create a more individualized plan and/or services that lead to improved outcomes. 5. Children achieve permanency a. Remain safely in the home b. Reunify with parents c. Plan or placed with prospective legal guardian d. Plan or placed with prospective adoptive parents 6. Families achieve new community connections/relationships.
