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Understanding CSOC
CSoC is about a core set of values as well as about ensuring services and supports are delivered to young people with significant behavioral health challenges and their families.
Family Voice and Choice
Family and youth/child perspectives are intentionally elicited and prioritized during all phases of the wraparound process. Planning is grounded in family members' perspectives, and the team strives to provide options and choices such that the plan reflects family values and preferences.
Team-Based
The wraparound team consists of individuals agreed upon by the family and committed to the family through informal, formal, and community support and service relationships.
Natural Supports
The team actively seeks out and encourages the full participation of team members drawn from family members' networks of interpersonal and community relationships. The wraparound plan reflects activities and interventions that draw on sources of natural support.
Collaboration
Team members work cooperatively and share responsibility for developing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating a single wraparound plan. The plan reflects a blending of team members' perspectives, mandates, and resources. The plan guides and coordinates each team member's work towards meeting the team's goals.
Home and Community Based
The wraparound team implements service and support strategies that take place in the most inclusive, most responsive, most accessible, and least restrictive settings possible; and that safely promote child and family integration into home and community life.
Culturally and Linguistically Competent
The wraparound process demonstrates respect for and builds on the values, preferences, beliefs, culture, and identity of the child/youth and family, and their community.
Strength-Based
The wraparound process and the wraparound plan identify, build on, and enhance the capabilities, knowledge, skills, and assets of the child and family, their community, and other team members.
Individualized
To achieve the goals laid out in the wraparound plan, the team develops and implements a customized set of strategies, supports, and services.
Outcome-Based
The wraparound team ties the goals and strategies of the wraparound plan to observable or measurable indicators of success, monitors progress in terms of these indicators, and revises the plan accordingly.
Unconditional Care
A wraparound team does not give up on, blame, or reject children, youth, and their families. When faced with challenges or setbacks, the team continues working towards meeting the needs of the youth and family and towards achieving the goals in the wraparound plan until the team reaches agreement that a formal wraparound process is no longer necessary.
A child/young person might be able to be enrolled in CSoC if he/she:
- is 5 - 20 years old
- is at risk for out-of-home placement or is already placed out of home
- has a mental health or co-occurring disorder
- lives in Louisiana
View a more detailed explanation of Who Might CSoC be Right For
Children enrolled in CSoC are assigned a worker called a Wraparound Facilitator. The child and family will work with the facilitator to develop a plan of care with a team of people. The plan can include services and supports to meet their behavioral health needs as well as other needed services and supports that affect their well-being.
Supports and Services
There are four specialized services that are available to children and families enrolled in CSoC if they are needed. These services are in addition to other services the family may be receiving.
Parent Support and Training
This service connects families with people who are caregivers for children with similar challenges. Parent Support staff provide support to families and help families develop skills. Parent Support staff also provide information and education to families and help families connect with other supports in the community.
Youth Support and Training
Young people who have been involved in behavioral health services or other child-serving systems in the past provide support, mentoring, coaching and skill development to children and youth enrolled in CSoC. This service works with the child or youth at home and in community locations. This service helps the children and youth enrolled in CSoC to develop skills and abilities needed to overcome challenges.
Parent Support and Training and Youth Support and Training services are provided by the Family Support Organization (FSO): Behavioral Services of Louisiana
Short-Term Respite Care
Respite is designed to help meet the needs of the caregiver and the child. The respite provider cares for the youth or child in the child's home or a community setting to give the caregiver/guardian a break. Children or youth in CSoC can receive up to 300 hours of respite each year. This service helps to reduce stressful situations. Respite may be planned or provided on an emergency basis.
Independent Living and Skills Building
This service helps children or youth who need assistance moving into adulthood. Children or youth learn skills that help them in their home and community. Children or youth learn to be successful with work, housing, school and community life.