Edgewood Wraparound is a team-based service provided by Edgewood Center for Children and Families that aims to help at-risk youth in the child welfare, probation, or mental health systems transition to family settings. Wraparound teams include the youth, family, and formal/informal supports who work collaboratively to create individualized plans focused on the family's strengths, needs, and goals. Interventions are comprehensive and aim to support youth in their communities and prevent group home placements. Edgewood Wraparound is founded on principles like family voice and choice, cultural competence, and using natural community supports.

1. Celebrating its 160th anniversary in 2011, Edgewood
Center for Children and Families (Edgewood) helps
children and families take back their future by working
with them to overcome severe challenges like abuse,
neglect, mental illness and crisis. The oldest children’s
charity in the western U.S., Edgewood has evolved to
meet the community’s changing needs. What began
as a refuge for Gold Rush orphans is now a nationally
recognized, multifaceted agency. Edgewood serves
more than 5,000 children and families in the Bay Area
each year through behavioral health, family support,
and educational services. Edgewood: transforming
lives, restoring hope.
Edgewood
10 PRINCIPLES OF THE
OUR MISSION
The mission of Edgewood Center for Children and
Wraparound
Families is to strengthen children, youth, families, and
WRAPAROUND PROCESS: their communities through service, training, advocacy,
and research. The goal of Edgewood Wraparound is to
• Family Voice and Choice provide the skills and support necessary for
OUR SERVICES youth to function in their communities in
• Team-Based Learn more about Edgewood and its services at family and family-like environments. Wrap
edgewood.org. principles and practices, including youth
• Natural Supports and family voice and choice, comprehensive
CONTACT US assessment, and intervention techniques are
• Collaboration used for youth at-risk of stepping down from
Natalia Estassi Papakostas, MA, PsyD
• Community-Based Director of Integrated Wrap Services, Family Connections RCL level 10-14 programming. Intervention
Program, and Hospital Diversion and treatment are comprehensive and focused
• Culturally Competent 415.682.3218 on permanency planning.
nataliae@edgewood.org
• Individualized
EDGEWOOD CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
• Strengths-Based
1801 Vicente Street
• Persistence San Francisco, CA 94116
Tel: 415.681.3211
• Outcome-Based edgewood.org

2. Edgewood Wraparound is founded on the principles of wraparound EDGEWOOD TEAM
services and provides unconditional care that is family-centered, Care Coordinator:
individualized, culturally competent, and strengths-based. The Care Coordinator is the central contact
person for all Edgewood Wraparound team
Edgewood Wraparound is a team-based members. He/She manages the collaborative
process, aimed at helping youth and their effort by working closely with the youth,
families in San Francisco County’s Child PHILOSOPHY family, and the Edgewood team to achieve
Welfare, Probation, or Mental Health the family’s goals.
systems who are at-risk of group home As each child and family is
care or are transitioning from group care unique, Edgewood Wraparound Family Specialist:
to a family setting. Families are referred to prides itself on creating The Family Specialist provides one-on-one
Edgewood by child welfare workers, AAP individually tailored programs support to the youth. This support may
workers, probation officers, or mental that fit the specific needs of include, but is not limited to, connecting
health workers. those we serve. the youth to a variety of community
resources such as: after school programs,
For each family in Wraparound, a team mentors, hobbies, and job opportunities;
The development of the plan for
is developed that includes formal and assist in the care and supervision of the
informal supports identified by the
the family occurs in regularly
scheduled Child and Family youth; and implement individual and group
family. The hope is to have more “natural activities that encourage the youth’s social
supports” than paid workers. This team Team meetings which are a
collaborative effort among the development.
discovers what each family’s goals and
concerns are; then services are designed Edgewood Wraparound team,
Family Partner:
in a creative and flexible manner to meet the County, the family, and
The Family Partner comes to the Edgewood
these needs. Edgewood Wraparound is able their support network.
Wraparound program with the personal
to support children and families who need
These meetings focus on experience of successfully integrating his/
assistance with issues related to mental
creating and maintaining a her child back into the home after being
health, substance abuse, or co-occurring
involved in the Child Welfare, Probation, or
disorders. family mission, identifying
Mental Health systems. The Family Partner
the strengths and needs of the
The Wraparound approach focuses has a unique perspective of these systems
family, and creating goals that and is able to provide peer support from a
on supporting children by enhancing
the members of the team can “been there” position. The Family Partner is
natural resources within their families
and communities so that they can live achieve to support the family. responsible for coordinating parent support
in the least restrictive, most family- activities and resources; engage family
like setting possible. Permanency and members in the process to increase their
connectedness is the ultimate goal. involvement; and assist them in achieving
their goals.
For more information, please call 415.681.3211 or visit us online www.edgewood.org/whatwedo/community/sfwrap.html.