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Systems of Care is a comprehensive spectrum of mental health and other support services that are organized into coordinated networks to meet the multiple and changing needs of children, adolescents and their families with a serious emotional disturbance. It accomplishes this by providing community based, family driven, youth guided, and culturally competent services statewide.
Wraparound is a facilitated team-based process involving the child, his or her family, professional and natural supports who are involved in the life of the child. This process results in strengths-based individualized plans that lead to achieving positive outcomes.
Values of the OSOC
Community-based: OSOC brings the services to the family’s home community. The responsibility for decision making is placed at the local level.
Family-driven: means that families have a primary decision-making role in the care of their children as well as in the policies and procedures governing care for all children in their community, state, tribe, territory and nation.
Youth-Guided: youth are knowledgeable of services, beginning to research & ask questions about resources, beginning to understand the process of the system and services, involved in identifying needs and supports, learning how to self advocate.
Youth-directed: youth are continuing with youth-guided process, in a safe place (not in continual crisis), taking a more active decision making role in treatment and within the OSOC (policy, etc), increasing their knowledge of services and developing a deeper understanding of the system.
Youth-driven: youth are initiating, planning and executing in partnership with others, equipped with an expert level of understanding and advocating for other young people.
Culturally & Linguistically Competent: services and supports must be tailored to the unique culture of the child and family.
Statewide: Oklahoma is one of the few states in the U.S. that is implementing SOC statewide. Phase 1 implemented 36 local SOC’s communities covering 41 counties. Phase 2 development and implementation will begin in 2009 with a goal of the entire state of Oklahoma being supported by local SOC communities by 2015.
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