Rural Social Work: Building and Sustaining Community Capacity by

Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2013-07-02T16:00:00+00:00

Flexible Service Planning

Another critical component of wraparound is the availability of flexible resources for use with families when individual family needs extend beyond the services available. This generally means a pool of money for use by wraparound service coordinators to obtain out-of-the-ordinary services (Lourie, Katz-Leavy, & Stroul, 1996; Miles et al., 2011). For example, in one of our rural research communities, flexible dollars were used as seed money to employ youth in community businesses. If the employment arrangement was successful, the employer took over payment of wages. Although securing these resources is often challenging, systems of care across the country find innovative ways to increase the amount of flexible dollars, even when systemic regulations create barriers. The ability to build strong interagency collaborations to support the availability and creation of flexible resources for wraparound is important to successful systems of care development (Koyanagi & Feres-Merchant, 2000). Moreover, they can be extremely valuable to creating culturally and linguistically relevant services for families.

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