Assistance for Families
And Support

See a video describing the issues and wraparound

If you adopted a child or children from a County in California, through your County or a Private Agency, you may be eligible to receive Adoption Wraparound service to improve family life and address a wide range of behavioral and attachment difficulties. Kinship Center's Adoption Wraparound program helps your family identify your goals, your strengths, and tasks we will carry out together to work towards the achievement of your goals. For many families struggling with issues of adoption their main goal is simply, "make our home a better place to live."

Families Served:
Adoption Assistance Wraparound is provided to families who receive, or are eligible for, subsidy payment (AAP) on behalf of their adopted child who is either:

1. In the opinion of the adoptive parents, at risk of placement in a group home or institution within the next year, or

2. Presently placed in a group home or institution and is ready to transition home.

The program serves the needs of the entire family, regardless of which child was initially identified. There is no cost to any family who participates in Adoption Wraparound.

Program Description (see the video):
Adoption Wraparound is strength-based, family-driven, flexible, creative, committed to permanence, and adoption competent. Goals are developed based on family needs, identified within regular family Team meetings, coordinated by a Wraparound Facilitator. Tasks are assigned by the team, and may include actions to be carried out by family members, community members, assistants hired by the family, hired professionals, and agency staff. Wrap funds are allocated flexibly and targeted to meet established needs. Funds are managed conservatively to ensure that they will be available in the event of unusual need. If the child eventually needs residential placement then Wraparound pays for that service and continues to work on the goals. 

Essential Components:
Families must be referred to us by the County responsible for their AAP, although families often call us for consultation first. Families must also agree to the terms of their participation by signing this document, and this mutual agreement.

There is a set of Wraparound Standards established by the State that must be in place across the program, and within each individual family team. Primary among these are the reliance on family and individual strengths to effect change, family ownership of both the plan and process, and flexibility in approach. Review our Standards.

Setting:
Assistance is provided in any setting chosen by the family, and is usually provided by both professionals and system representatives, and members of the adoptive family’s community. Planning and coordination of services occurs in each family’s Team, comprised minimally of the parents, a facilitator, and a parent partner. Some teams may be three or four people and others eight or ten. Children are usually team members depending on age. 

What Can Wraparound Do?:
We have no menu of services. Parents often want to see a list of services we provide, but we don't have one. To do so would put limits on our flexibility. We do often help with some respite, help in working with behaviors, personal support from an experienced adoptive parent, financial support for needed professional help that the family cannot afford, and assistance advocating within the school system, and very many other forms of help. It all depends on what the family has decided they need, in order to meet their goals. You may wish to download the Guide to Wraparound for Families available here.

To discuss a referral for your family please call Kinship Center's™ regional offices or email the Program Director: