Professional Partner Program
Professional Partner Program
Professional Partner Program (PPP) utilizes a high fidelity wraparound approach to coordinate services and supports for families who have children/adolescents with a severe emotional disturbance and to ensure that families have a voice, ownership, and access to a comprehensive, individualized support plan and serve youth in all 11 counties of the panhandle; Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Deuel, Garden, Kimball, Morrill, Scottsbluff, Sheridan and Sioux counties.
Justice Wraparound Professional Partner Program
Justice Wraparound PPP Pilot provides wraparound supports that connect justice involved juveniles who have mental, behavioral, emotional, and /or substance use challenges with the appropriate level of individualized, strength-based services. The focus is to build positive relationships between family and prevention, helping youth to become successful.
Professional Partner Program
The purpose of the Professional Partner Program is to assist families who have a child who have or may have a mental health or substance abuse diagnosis. The Professional Partner Program is a partnership between the family and Professional Partner, where the parents are equal partners in all aspects of planning and care. The Professional Partner Program promotes the least intrusive, least restrictive and developmentally appropriate interventions in accordance with the needs identified by the family and within the most normalized environment.
The Professional Partner will work jointly with families to ensure appropriate assessment to develop an Individualized Action Plan (IAP). The Professional Partner will assist in accessing services and supports to address the needs identified and to monitor implementations of the plan in any setting that provides for the greatest access for the youth and family.
WHAT IS FAMILY CENTERED PRACTICE?
Family Centered Practice is a process of empowerment. It is a plan developed by an individualized community team of people who know the family best. Family Centered Practice means that the family has access and ownership of the plan. The Professional Partner works with the family in securing traditional and non-traditional care.
Who We Served in Fiscal Year 2019
| Program | Number of Youth Served |
|---|---|
| Professional Partner Program | 142 |
| Justice Wraparound Program | 8 |
| Total | 150 |
Professional Partner Program Referral Form
WHO IS ELIGIBLE?
- Youth between ages 3-25 years
- Persons who exhibits a signficant degree of functional impairment due to mental health diagnosis**
- Youth who meet one or more of the following risks
- Youth at risk of becoming a state ward
- Youth at risk of being placed out of the home
- Youth at risk of dropping out of school
- Youth who have committed a criminal offence
- Youth with co-occurring disorders**
** Not required for Justice Wraparound PPP.
USEFUL LINKS
Professional Partner Program Brochure
Professional Parnter Program – Justice Wrap Pilot Brochure
Professional Partner Program – Children & Family Services Brochure
EXAMPLES OF SERVICE
- On call staff 24 hours a day
- Facilitate monthly team meetings
- Involvement in social and recreational activities
- Provide 1 on 1 support with child
- Identifying and utilizing community and natural supports
