Coordinated Service Team
For Children and Families Experiencing Challenges
Connecting Families, Community, and Resources
The Recovery and Wellness Coordinated Service Teams are committed to a community based system of care that is focused on the family unit. Think of coordinated service teams as pieces of an intricate puzzle that, when brought together, create a complete picture.
Each piece is vital to the whole.
Guiding Principles
- Family and team members are voluntary
- Services are strength based
- Services are child and family focused
- Teams meet on a regular basis
- Teams work on a full range of life needs that impact the child and family
- Families build natural supports
- Teams are flexible and care is unconditional
- Goals are results driven
- Teams celebrate success!!
Advantages to a Coordinated Team Approach
- The child and family are supported by a TEAM
- Parents have a VOICE in decisions that are made about their child and family
- The child and the parents have ACCESS to the supports and community services needed
- Parents have OWNERSHIP of the plan concerning their child
- Outcomes are more REWARDING when goals are shared
Core Values of Coordinated Service Team
* Have a strong and explicit commitment to preserve the integrity of the family unit
* Be child centered and family directed, with strengths and needs of the child and family deciding the types and mix of supports provided
* Be community based, with the support and decision making responsibility existing at the community level
* Be culturally responsive to the differences of the population served