Team Based/Wraparound Services for Youth and Families

Comprehensive Community Services (CCS) and Families Come First (FCF)

Sauk County Department of Human Services is dedicated to providing high quality wrap around services for youth and their families who are struggling with serious emotional, behavioral, and mental health/substance use needs.  The Comprehensive Community Services (CCS) and the Families Come First (FCF) Programs provide team based service coordination for youth and their families.  The aim of both programs is to establish a comprehensive, coordinated, community-based interagency system of care, centered on the child and family needs.  Services provided are flexible and are meant to help youth and their families achieve their vision of recovery and wellness.

The core values of both the CCS and the FCF programs are:

• Person Centered/Consumer Driven - Consumer needs and goals are the central focus of services.  The consumer (youth) and their families are actively involved and take ownership in all aspects of planning, which is empowering and increases the likelihood of success.
• Strength-Based/Recovery-Focused – Belief in growth and recovery and identification of consumer/family strengths that support strategies to meet their needs.
• Collaboration Across Systems – A cooperative process of providers working with consumer/families, where there is understanding of each other and a commitment and willingness to work together.
• Team Approach - Team member (including consumer/families) strengths and skills are used to develop a plan that leads to success and positive outcomes for consumers/families.
• Builds on Natural Supports – In addition to formal supports, consumers/families identify their natural supports in the community and these resources are utilized creatively and flexibly, empowering them to develop a network of community supports.
• Ensuring Safety – When protective services are involved or when a consumer presents at risk to harm self or others, the plan involves keeping the person safe through least restrictive means possible while also protecting the community through good supervision and monitoring.
• Culturally Responsive – Understanding of the issues specific to gender, age, ethnicity, disability, and sexual orientation and making adjustments to address these unique circumstances.           
• Healthy Interdependence – Developing resiliency so that consumers/families rely on others only to the extent necessary to learn and maintain new skills and behaviors.
• Unconditional Care – A commitment on the part of the system to be there when needed, and care is not dependent upon what the consumer/family does or does not do.
• Trauma Informed Approach – Understanding that past trauma has an impact on how the world is perceived, both as consumers and providers, and approaching each other in a manner that does not re-traumatize or compound the trauma.
• Outcome Oriented – Goals are identified, agreed upon and understood by all team members including identification of roles and responsibilities of each member of the team.  Progress is monitored and success defined by all team members.

To learn more about these programs or to request services please contact Sauk County Human Services at 608-355-4200.

Program Coordinator Jill Ellinwood can be reached at 608-355-4214 and by email at jill.ellinwood@saukcountywi.gov

For more information regarding the regional CCS program please visit Wisconsin River Collaborative web site:  http://wisconsinriverccs.org/

For more information about Coordinated Service Teams (CST) such as Families Come First: https://www.wicollaborative.org/