Service Coordination Flashcards
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Which CAASP principle specifically addresses ensuring that services are provided close to where youth and families live?
Answer: Community-based
The community-based principle holds that services should be delivered in or near the family's own community to support natural connections and reduce disruption.
During the transition phase of wraparound, a service coordinator's primary responsibility is to:
Answer: Help the family build sustainability into natural and community supports before stepping down formal services
Transition planning ensures that gains are maintained and natural supports are robust enough before formal wraparound services are reduced.
A youth who is involved with both the juvenile justice system and mental health services is sometimes called a 'crossover youth.' The service coordinator's role for this youth includes:
Answer: Coordinating a joint plan that addresses both mental health and legal needs with representatives from both systems
For crossover youth, coordinators must bridge mental health and justice systems in a unified, collaborative plan that addresses all dimensions of need.
Which of the following is an example of a community-based alternative to psychiatric hospitalization that service coordinators may help families access?
Answer: Mobile crisis teams and crisis stabilization units
Mobile crisis teams and crisis stabilization units are community-based alternatives that respond to crises without requiring hospital-level placement.
Which practice best supports the CAASP principle that youth and families should be empowered as decision-makers?
Answer: Ensuring youth and family members chair or co-chair their own team meetings
Family leadership in team meetings — including youth chairing their own meetings — is a concrete strategy for operationalizing the family-driven principle.
Blended or braided funding in systems of care serves to:
Answer: Combine funding streams from multiple agencies to flexibly meet individualized family needs
Blended/braided funding pools resources from multiple sources so service coordinators can fund individualized services that no single categorical stream would cover.
A service coordinator who practices 'self-determination' with a 17-year-old transitioning to adult services would:
Answer: Actively involve the youth in planning their own adult services, honoring their goals and choices
Self-determination requires building the youth's own decision-making capacity and centering their voice, particularly as they approach adulthood.