For families struggling to meet the needs of a child with a complex disability, High Fidelity Wraparound, or HFW, can be the missing ingredient. HFW streamlines and simplifies therapy services to single action steps that allow families to see real progress on their goals. It is a family-driven, youth-guided approach to navigating complex issues that often impact families in distress. This can be a game-changer for local adolescents and families facing mental health challenges. Grafton is now a provider of High Fidelity Wraparound for Loudoun County.<\/p>\n
As a planning process guided by the youth themselves, HFW is designed to help families reach their goals while allowing children to stay within their homes. There is strong evidence that when Wraparound is done well\u2014or done with \u201cfidelity to the model\u201d\u2014young people are less likely to be placed in residential treatment. A study<\/a> published this spring in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry found that Wraparound successfully reduced out-of-home placements and improved mental health functioning, school attendance, and school achievement. The study also found significantly lower overall costs of care for youth in Wraparound, due to less spending on costly out-of-home placements. A growing number of behavioral health providers are using HFW because it not only yields better results, but it also reduces the trauma associated with a child being removed from their home.<\/p>\n