Wraparound Services of South Carolina Youth Advocate Program
WRAP Services are community support services that include therapeutic activities and treatment interventions provided to a youth and/or family with behavioral health, emotional and special needs.
How it works step by step:
- Assessment: Identifying the specific needs of the youth and family.
- Assignment: A SCYAP Wrap Advocate is assigned to the youth and/or family.
- Service Implementation: Therapeutic activities and interventions are provided in the home or community.
- Ongoing Support: The Wrap Advocate offers continuous one-on-one support, supervision, and guidance.
- Tailored Services: The combination of services is customized based on the individual needs and circumstances of the youth and family.
Behavior Modification Services:
Behavior Modification Services provide the youth with redirection and modeling of appropriate behaviors in order to enhance his or her functioning within the home, school, or community.
How it works, step by step:
- Observation: Watching what happens before the youth shows inappropriate behavior.
- Intervention: Stopping or redirecting inappropriate behavior.
- Redirection and Modeling: Showing and guiding the youth towards better behaviors.
- Teaching Replacement Behaviors: Teaching better behavior through practice and guidance.
- Emotional and Behavioral Support: Using planned techniques to help the youth develop healthy coping skills and interact well with others.
- Life Skills Learning: Constantly supporting and teaching the youth important life skills.
Psychosocial Rehabilitation Services:
Psychosocial Rehabilitation Services (PRS) assist the youth in the strengthening of skills needed to promote and sustain independence and stability in their living, learning, social, and working environments.
What PRS does:
- Skill Building Support: Activities that improve the quality of life by helping youth take responsibility, strengthen skills, and develop support to function independently in the community.
Skill Development Areas:
- Basic Living Skills Development: Coaching and encouraging youth to enhance their basic living skills.
- Interpersonal Skills Training: Promoting self-management, socialization, communication, and cognitive skills.
- Therapeutic Socialization: Teaching skills needed to perform activities that sustain independence.
- Youth Empowerment: Enhancing decision-making and problem-solving skills.
Family Support Services:
Family Support Services (FSS) enable the family or caregiver to serve as a knowledgeable member of the youth’s treatment team and to develop and improve the ability of the family or caregiver to appropriately care for the youth.
What FSS does:
- Family Support Services provides guidance on navigating systems that support youth with behavioral health or special needs and empowers families through support and encouragement.
Family Support is intended to:
- Equip with Coping Skills: Helps families develop skills to manage the stress of dealing with the youth’s needs.
- Crisis Management: Teaches families how to handle crisis situations.
- Coordination with Providers: Guides families on how to effectively work with other community service providers.
- Knowledge Sharing: Provides families with the information they need to be active members of the youth treatment team.
- Advocacy Training: Teaches families how to advocate for the youth.
- Stigma Reduction: Helps alleviate the stigma families might face due to the youth’s needs.
- Connection to Networks: Reduces family isolation by connecting them with behavioral health advocacy and support networks.
Crisis Management Services:
Crisis Management Services assist the individual or family to regain stability during a crisis that threatens the psychological and emotional well-being or safety of the client or others.
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Community Based Services
Wraparound Services
WRAP services are therapeutic activities and treatment interventions provided to youth with behavioral health and other special needs. Services are implemented within the youth’s or family’s home or community and are facilitated by an assigned SCYAP Wrap Advocate who provides one-on-one services to the youth and/or to the family with support, supervision and guidance from SCYAP staff.
In-Home Family Services
In-Home Family Services are a combination of clinical and community-based services that come together to create an intensive and comprehensive program tailored to meet the needs of the youth and his or her family. Services are provided to families in their homes.
Transportation Services
At SCYAP, we recognize the importance of having transportation services as part of a comprehensive array of services available to youth and families so that they might access treatment and other needed/required services and to allow families to work toward reunification.