FAQs

Family Voice & Choice: The child and family are active partners in making treatment decisions.

Natural Supports:

The use of informal community supports such as neighbors or friends is important to the success of children.

Team Based:

The approach must involve a team consisting of members of those social systems (family, school, community, neighbors, church) who are most important to the child.

Collaboration:

The child is best treated if all of the important systems in his/her life are working together towards similar goals.

Community Based:

Mental health treatment success is best achieved in the community in which the child lives.

Culturally Proficient:

The process must be built on each family’s unique values, preferences, and strengths.

Individualized:

Every child has different needs and abilities. Treatment plans will reflect that individuality.

Strengths Based:

Mental health treatment success can be best achieved if we focus not only on the problems of a child and family but also what is going well and is healthy about the family.

Persistence:

Unconditional commitment to continue to help the families through necessary services to meet treatment goals. Youth receiving CBAY services cannot be discharged for the same reason they were referred. This is also known as the No Eject, No Reject policy.

Outcome Based Services:

Goals and services must be measured and treatment adjusted to improve outcomes. You will be asked to participate in an ongoing evaluation that will help ensure that you are receiving the services you need and are satisfied with everything you are receiving.

Families who live in the 15 counties of Northwest Georgia: Bartow, Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Fannin, Floyd, Gilmer, Gordon, Haralson, Murray, Paulding, Pickens, Polk, Walker and Whitfield.

Families, schools, faith based organizations or agencies such as DFCS, DJJ, Mental Health—or anyone can make referrals.

Referral forms can be found on our website at WINgeorgia.org along with instructions on how to contact your county Care Coordinator.

If you have a question or need more information please call 706-806-1260.

Wraparound is a process that helps your family handle your child’s behavior. If you decide to participate in Wraparound, you will receive help finding the services your child needs. Some families are already receiving services, often from multiple agencies. Wraparound will make sure the different resources are communicating with each other.

WIN Georgia helps your family build a Wraparound team. A Care Coordinator will work with you to develop goals and develop a plan to meet those goals based on your family’s strengths and culture. Your ideas and concerns are very important to this process. No plan can work unless it truly meets your family’s specific needs.

WIN Georgia can even help match you with a “Family Navigator.” Family Navigators are parents who have successfully graduated from the Wraparound process. These “parent peers” have been where you are and can be very helpful in guiding you to reaching your goals. Wraparound is provided in both English and Spanish.

WIN Georgia (Wraparound Initiative Northwest Georgia) is a community-based initiative targeting children who have been diagnosed with a serious emotional behavioral disturbance. This initiative is funded through a SAMHSA (Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration) grant, and Georgia is one of Eighteen communities that received this grant award in 2008.

WIN Georgia uses a high fidelity wraparound approach, which includes having the services developed and driven by your family using a team process. Your Care Coordinator and Family Support Partner will help you identify what your child needs and build on your family’s strengths.

The purpose of orientation is to educate families on what to expect once enrolled in WIN Georgia and with the Wraparound process. By sharing information on the phases of wraparound and the role of each team member, families can better make an informed choice to participate. In addition, families will understand the commitment needed to be successful in the process.

The goal of WIN Georgia is to assist you and your family in becoming independent by helping you build community partnerships and relationships, in turn, building strong Families and strong Youth.