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What are Adoption Wraparound Services?

Aiming to improve the quality of care and reduce costs for at-risk adoptive placements, California Senate Bill 163 Wraparound Plan is a progressive collaboration between the counties and state teams. This effort hopes to provide families with greater means of supporting their children in their homes instead of resorting to more expensive resources that have proven less successful.

Who Qualifies?

Any family with an adopted child under the age of eighteen that is at-risk of being removed or placed outside of the home into a higher level of care. In this manner the family is in turmoil. In most instances the child is demonstrating some spectrum of severe behaviors and has already received a diagnosis and may be receiving mental health counseling that is not helping to alleviate the intensity being experienced by the family.

Is There a Cost to the Family?

Do I Have to Be Referred by My Social Worker?

No, you do not have to be referred by your social worker. You can refer yourself to EOH directly. If your child and home meet the necessary criteria you are automatically qualified to receive services through EOH. As part of your community treatment team, your social worker will stay involved in your treatment process, as local professionals, to provide an effective treatment plan for your individual family needs.

What Areas Do You Cover?

EOH provides wraparound services to families in Fresno, Madera, Chowchilla; Ukiah; Napa, Solano, and Sacramento.

How is Expressions of Hope Different from Other Wraparound Providers?

Adopted children and the families caring for them do not need multiple workers entering their homes throughout the day to help with managing behaviors. Transporting them from outpatient therapy, social skills activities, and other forms of therapy programs is not necessarily therapeutic; it can provide temporary relief for overburdened parents but will not get to the root cause of any issues. Band-aid services are inadequate in these cases as they fail to address what really matters.

The core of helping children adjust to their adoptive placements lies in establishing a safe, supportive atmosphere for them to heal and grow. This should be an environment where parents act like therapists by being knowledgeable yet understanding, predictable but loving, and by creating stability which is fundamental within the family dynamic. Combining these elements can lead to a healthy, therapeutic home that will provide your child with a strong foundation upon which they can build and grow.

Adoptive children, who might, unfortunately, be victims of trauma, need parents and families that not only empathize with their experiences but also comprehend the after-effects of mistreatment and neglect. Understanding the source of a child's behavior as well as valuing relationships is paramount in aiding healing.

Even if parents invest loads of energy and effort into caring for their children, it will only lead to temporary relief without creating lasting healing. Without allowing the child to build on their own internal capacity, it will be incredibly difficult for them to achieve a sense of normalcy or become independent in any meaningful way. To keep the family connected as well as empowered through genuine loving relationships demands much more than just providing care with sheer force of will alone.

Imagine if social workers went beyond just supervising the child inside the home and provided intensive family coaching, observing parent-child interactions, and even intervening when a parent is unable to comprehend something at that moment. Moreover, what if those same professionals handled other daily chores like cleaning up after themselves, cooking meals for everyone at home, and paying bills on time? This way parents can concentrate all their efforts on building stronger relationships with their children while they continue earning money to support them.

No longer is progress judged by the number of providers in a family's home or how well they are able to keep up with them. Progress now depends on how effectively families work together and transition away from their reliance on so many hours with service providers; this is a possible new world with wraparound services.