High Fidelity Wraparound (HFW) Facilitator - Remote

Overview:

High Fidelity Wraparound (HFW) is an evidence-based care coordination model designed to support youth with complex behavioral health needs and their families in achieving successful outcomes within their homes and communities. HFW promotes individualized, family-driven care by building on the strengths, culture, preferences, and natural supports of the youth and family. The approach focuses on identifying underlying needs, coordinating supports across systems, and empowering families to develop the skills, resources, and relationships necessary for long-term success.

High Fidelity Wraparound Facilitator plays a pivotal role in guiding youth and families through the Wraparound process in accordance with National Wraparound Implementation Center (NWIC) guidelines
. This includes engaging families, developing the Family Story, identifying strengths and underlying needs, building and facilitating the Wraparound team, developing individualized plans, monitoring progress toward outcomes, and supporting successful transition. The Facilitator's work is grounded in family voice and choice, strengths-based practice, collaboration, cultural responsiveness, and community-based support.

Team Coordination & Integration: Facilitate the involvement of relevant team members, including family members, natural supports, service providers, school personnel, and community partners, to develop a coordinated and individualized Wraparound plan. Maintain collaboration across systems such as behavioral health, child welfare, education, juvenile justice, and other community-based services.

Engagement & Family Story: Build strong, trusting relationships with youth and families and ensure their voice and choice remain central throughout the Wraparound process. Partner with the family to develop a comprehensive Family Story that identifies family strengths, culture, experiences, priorities, supports, and underlying needs that will guide planning.

Plan Development: Collaborate with the family and Wraparound team to develop individualized, culturally responsive strategies that address prioritized underlying needs and measurable outcomes. Ensure plans build upon family, team, natural, and community strengths rather than relying solely on formal services.

Crisis & Safety Planning: Work with the youth, family, and team to develop and maintain individualized crisis and safety plans. Support coordination and communication following crisis situations and facilitate changes to the plan when additional strategies or supports are needed.

Implementation & Progress Monitoring: Monitor implementation of the Wraparound plan, team action steps, and progress toward identified outcomes. Facilitate ongoing team discussions to determine whether strategies are working and support revisions when the family's needs or circumstances change.

Family Empowerment: Support youth and families in building confidence, advocating for their needs, making informed decisions, and developing the skills necessary to navigate services and supports. Encourage increasing family leadership throughout the Wraparound process.

Natural & Community Supports: Help families identify and strengthen natural, social, and community supports that can contribute to long-term stability and success beyond formal services.

Transition & Continued Success: Facilitate intentional transition planning as the family achieves identified outcomes. Support the family and team in developing sustainable strategies, strengthening natural supports, and preparing for continued success after formal Wraparound facilitation concludes.

Experience and Background: Experience working with youth and families with complex behavioral health or support needs is strongly preferred. Professional or lived experience with systems such as behavioral health, child welfare, education, developmental disabilities, or juvenile justice is beneficial.

Cultural Responsiveness: Ability to engage effectively and respectfully with youth and families from diverse backgrounds, cultures, identities, and family structures. Facilitators must demonstrate curiosity, respect, and responsiveness to each family's individual values and preferences.

System Knowledge: Understanding of systems that support youth and families, including behavioral health, education, child welfare, juvenile justice, developmental disability services, and community-based resources. Familiarity with Trauma-Informed Care, Motivational Interviewing, family-driven practice, and strengths-based approaches is beneficial.

Educational Requirements: A Bachelor's degree in social work, psychology, human services, or a related field is required.

Collaboration & Facilitation: Ability to work effectively with diverse teams, facilitate productive meetings, navigate differing perspectives, support problem-solving, and maintain focus on family-identified needs and outcomes.

Empathy & Relational

Skills:

Strong interpersonal and communication skills with…