Wraparound Evaluation and Research Team (WERT)
This website was created to facilitate dissemination of the Wraparound Fidelity Index (WFI) and to promote understanding within the service delivery evaluation field about the importance of maintaining fidelity to the wraparound process. This website contains descriptions of the WFI and the wraparound process, information on how to collaborate with our team and use the WFI, relevant literature and presentations, and links to related projects and institutions.
Latest News
July 1, 2009 Team Observation Measure (TOM) ROLLOUT
As you may know, over the past year and a half, the Wraparound Evaluation and Research Team has been pilot testing the Team Observation Measure (TOM) and its associated supports. If you have been a pilot testing site, thank you so much for your help in this process!
As of July 1, 2009, we will be accepting requests for collaboration from sites and programs that wish to use the TOM. Users may use the TOM alone, or in conjunction with other Wraparound Fidelity Assessment System (WFAS) tools, such as the WFI-4 or Community Supports for Wraparound Inventory (CSWI). TOM collaborators will have access to the following materials:
- TOM forms and any future updates to the forms
- TOM User's Manual
- TOM data entry shells in Excel and SPSS
- TOM training presentation in PowerPoint
- Access to the Wraparound Online Data Entry and Reporting System (WONDERS), available in Early Fall 2009
- TOM Observer Training Toolkit
The TOM Observer Training Toolkit includes a pre-recorded sample team meeting with associated sample administration. The sample administration includes a TOM score sheet with scoring explanations. Collaborating sites will be expected to use the toolkit to train observers to use the tool.
To download a copy of the collaborator agreement, click here.
If you have any question, or would like to become a TOM collaborator, email WERT at wrapeval@uw.edu.
February 13, 2009 CSWI AVAILABLE FOR COLLABORATORS' USE!
WERT is now accepting requests for collaboration from communities that wish to utilize the Community Supports for Wraparound Inventory (CSWI). The CSWI is a research and quality improvement tool intended to measure how well a local system supports the implementation of the wraparound process. The CSWI is based on the framework of Necessary Conditions described by Walker, Koroloff and Schutte (2003), and presents 42 community or system variables that ideally are in place in communities that aim to implement the wraparound process. The CSWI is somewhat unique from the other WFAS instruments in that it assesses the system context for wraparound as opposed to the fidelity to the practice model for an individual child and family.
Costs associated with use of the CSWI range depending on size of the community assessed. A standard community will be charged $1200, and this includes implementation of the survey, as well as a complete report of results. Some community assessments that are larger in scale (e.g., statewide or a county with multiple regions), will be charged additionally for each sub-community assessed. For an example of the CSWI report, click here.
If you have any questions, or would like to become a CSWI collaborator, email WERT at wrapeval@u.washington.edu.
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October 21, 2007 WFI TRAINING TOOLKIT AVAILABLE FOR COLLABORATORS' USE!
As of August, we have been accepting requests for collaboration from sites and programs that wish to use the WFI-4. WFI-4 collaborators get access to the following materials:
- The four WFI-4 respondent forms (Caregiver, Facilitator, Youth, and Team Member) plus Demographics form,
- WFI-4 User's Manual,
- WFI-4 Data entry shells in Excel and SPSS format,
- A WFI-4 training presentation in Power Point format, and
- The WFI-4 Interviewer Training Toolkit
The WFI-4 Interviewer Training Toolkit is an important new support to the WFI-4. It includes five CDs with eight pre-recorded WFI-4 sample administrations. Each sample administration also includes a corresponding WFI-4 score sheet and scoring explanations. Collaborating sites are expected to use the Training Toolkit to expose prospective interviewers to multiple WFI-4 interviews and train them to score the WFI-4 accurately.
If you have any questions regarding the WFI-4, or any of the other WFAS tools, please look at our WFAS Overview with our comprehensive Frequently Asked Questions document. If you would like to review or complete the Collaborator's Agreement form, just go to the tab marked "Becoming a WFI-4 Collaborator" on this webpage. If you still have questions, feel free to email us at wrapeval@u.washington.edu.
Best regards,
Eric, April and the Wraparound Evaluation and Research Team
This project is supported by the Child, Adolescent, and Family Branch of the Center for Mental Health Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration; the National Institute of Mental Health (grant number R41-MH077356); The Innovations Institute at the University of Maryland, Baltimore; and the University of Washington Division of Public Behavioral Health and Justice Policy. Special thanks to the University of Vermont Department of Psychology for their long history of support to this project.
If you have any questions, comments, concerns, please e-mail WERT at
wrapeval@u.washington.edu