Gerry Rodriguez, Ph.D. and Bradley Norman, LCSW - Family Partnership Institute, EMQ Children & Family Services

The FPI offers training, consultation, and technical assistance throughout the United States and internationally to a wide variety of professionals who work with youth and families struggling with serious emotional and behavioral challenges. Consultation and assistance is also provided for policy development and change. All support services provided at customer site.

Jennifer Taub, Research Assistant Professor

The primary support I offer is comprised of the following elements: research, evaluation and fidelity to treatment. I have served as the Research Director and Evaluator for five sites employing a Wraparound model in the state of Massachusetts, starting in 2002. I have coordinated quantitative and qualitative interviewing with families receiving Wraparound services. I am interested in working with sites to help them think about consumer satisfaction and treatment fidelity from a research perspective.

Velasco Consulting offers training, consultation and technical assistance in a wide variety of settings to assist families and professionals at all levels in working with the wraparound principles to improve services, staff productivity, management, administrative effectiveness and, most importantly, to improve lives.  Consultation is also provided for organizational change.

John Franz, Paper Boat Consulting

As a consultant, my primary method is a process consultation approach based on the work of Edgar Schein, the author of books like Organizational Culture and Leadership .  This means that I do not start by attempting to impose a model on an agency or system of care, but work with the participants to build one that is well-aligned with their history, culture, mission, needs and strengths.  In essence, I use wraparound planning at the system level. 

Kathy Dunning

As a Family Member who was highly active in the development, implementation and training aspects of a now “graduated” System Of Care (SOC), I am a passionate proponent of Wraparound, a service my family received prior to SOC development. My expertise as a consultant is an outcome of SOC development, co-founding a family organization, and developing and continuing to coordinate a Family Resource Center.

Mary Fran Crowley

Consultation and training in school-based care coordination

Diplomate, American Board of Neurology and Psychiatry
Diplomate, American Board of Adolescent Psychiatry

Training and consultation can be provided on system reform, clinically sound wraparound strategies, interagency collaboration and process integration, wraparound protocol and technical assistance development. Training and consultation can occur in a team approach with expertise in the clinical, political, and financial aspects of system change.

Cindy L. Myers, Ph.D., Executive Director of Center For Restorative Practice

CRFP offers a variety of training and consulting services for programs and communities pursuing team-based services (e.g., wraparound, family conference, team decision making, etc.). In each case, we adapt our curriculum to fit the specifics of the service model being used and the particular needs of the group being trained.

Mary Grealish M.Ed. - President, Community Partners, Inc.

Ms. Grealish emphasizes the importance of the individual, the family and teamwork. In her extensive work with people of all ages, she helps create viable plans that are based on their strengths. She also provides technical assistance in finding and linking with available resources in communities. State and local providers continue to call on Ms. Grealish to help them develop strategies for interagency collaboration.

Colette Lueck, LCSW - Clinical Director , System of Care Chicago

Successful consultation depends upon the consultant developing a full understanding of the structures, roles and relationships within the community requesting support, respecting existing strengths, and customizing both information and the consultation process to best meet identified needs. It also requires that the consultant and the site consider how the impact of the training will be supported and monitored over time to assure real change. Finally, the consultant needs to be skilled at motivating people to change and fostering team development around commonly identified goals.

Patricia Nellius, Systems of Care Consulting - Community Based Care of Brevard

Patricia has consulted and implemented over 9 start-up projects in both culturally diverse urban settings and rural communities as well as assist in analyzing and restructuring ailing programs.

I have been teaching, supervising and consulting around collaborative strengths-based family-centered practice since the early 90's, and specifically wraparound since the mid 90's. All of my research focuses on how to maintain model fidelity in wraparound and in other collaborative team approaches to strengths-based family-centered practice.

Steve Kossor, Licensed Professional Psychologist / Certified School Psychologist

I have worked with children who have behavioral and developmental challenges, including autism, since 1977.  I’ve seen tremendous progress in many young children through the use of individualized, intensive in-home and in-school behavior support services (sometimes called “wrap-around” services).  In 2006, I opened the Children’s Behavioral Health Center in southeastern Pennsylvania, where any child who has a disability but does not yet have Medical Assistance benefits can receive a state-of-the-art diagnostic evaluation. Please visit us on the web at www.ibc-pa.org.