The National Wraparound Implementation Center is providing a three-day Academy focused on implementation of high quality, research-based Wraparound care coordination on September 19-21, 2016 in Rockville, MD. The Academy will provide individuals with key Wraparound roles - including care coordinators, parent and youth partners, supervisors and managers, policy-makers, family and youth leaders, researchers and evaluators - with opportunities to learn from the field's foremost experts in Wraparound and systems of care.

 

Presenters: 

Gary Blau (Welcome)

John VanDenBerg (Keynote)

Eric Bruns, Toni Donnelly, Kimberly Estep, Marlene Matarese, Sheila Pires, Janet Walker, Michelle Zabel and more!

 

At the Academy you will:

• Be trained on new skills, or deepen and enhance existing ones.

• Gain insight into designing and sustaining policy and funding environments that are hospitable to Wraparound and systems of care principles and practice.

• Learn how to supervise and manage within a Wrapround-informed system of care.

• Strengthen connections across family, community and natural sources of support.

• Mobilize the evidence base on "what works" at system, program and practice levels.

• Learn how to use data to support effective decision-making, be accountable to funders, and stay on track.

• Get individualized technical assistance from over a dozen internationally-recognized content experts in Wraparound, evidence-based practice, research/evaluation, and family- and youth-driven care.

• Network with existing colleagues and make new friends.

• Earn CEUs for attending.

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