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Collaboration: Using the WFI-4

The WFI-4 piloting period ended in August 2007. We are now providing the measure and its associated training and support materials to communities and sites that wish to use it for an annual user’s fee. The WFI-4 may only be used by approved collaborators of the Wraparound Evaluation and Research Team. In addition, collaborators must agree to meet the qualifications for use (see below).

Sample forms and reports

Click here for a sample form of the WFI-4.

Click here for a sample evaluation report created using data collected via the WFI-4.

Qualifications for Use

The WFI was designed to be a fairly straightforward interview that could be used by any site interested in collecting fidelity information on wraparound implementation. It was also designed so it could be administered by interviewers of many types of backgrounds, including researchers, evaluators, family members, students – even youths with adequate training and supervision. However, we have found that there can be critical differences in WFI-4 results depending on how it is administered. Therefore, we have established several criteria a community or program must meet before using the measure. In addition, we require that a user program or community employ a standardized procedure for training interviewers to criteria.

Click here for an overview of qualifications for WFI-4 use.

Fees for use

In order to offset the costs of conducting pilot, reliability, and validity studies; creating training materials; and managing the process of supporting collaborators, our Research Team must charge a fee for use of the WFI-4. We are asking new collaborator sites to agree to an initial $800 user's fee, as well as an annual $500 license fee. Collaborators with multiple sites that will want individual data reports and training toolkits will be asked to pay $200 annually for each additional sub-site or program after the first $500 fee. Collaborators that renew their license annually will automatically receive new or revised WFI-4 support materials and unlimited access to the new Online Data Entry and Reporting System (available in early 2008).

A note for past collaborators! WFI-4 pilot sites and past WFI-3 collaborators will not be required to pay the user's fee to continue to use updated versions of the WFI-4. However, if you would like access to the training toolkit and/or the online data entry and reporting system, we will ask for the annual license fee.

(Student collaborators or small programs for whom these fees represent a burden can request a reduction or waiver of fees. Just email us to discuss further.)

Collaboration Steps

WFI-4 collaborators will receive access to the following materials:

  • The four WFI-4 respondent forms (Caregiver, Facilitator, Youth, and Team Member) plus Demographics form,
  • The WFI-4 User's Manual,
  • A WFI-4 training presentation in Power Point format,
  • The WFI-4 Interviewer Training Toolkit
  • WFI-4 Data entry shells in Excel and SPSS format, and
  • SPSS Scripts for computing total and summary WFI-4 scores

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 agree to the user qualifications and are interested in becoming a WFI-4 collaboration site, there are three steps for proceeding:

STEP ONE: Submit a request to use the WFI.

Selecting this link directs you to a pdf of our collaborator agreement. Please print and review this agreement, and if you agree to its terms, provide your contact information and complete the questions about your local evaluation. By submitting this form you agree to the terms on the form.

STEP TWO: After submitting this form, you will receive information from our research team on getting access to the WFI-4 materials. You will also receive an invoice for the appropriate amount due to the Wraparound Evaluation and Research Team.

All collaborators will receive reports and products from our research team as they are created and refined, including reports on psychometrics and fidelity benchmarks, and new materials now being developed to support training and use of WFI-4 data.

If you have any questions about the process described above, please email us at wrapeval@u.washington.edu, or call April Sather, MPH, at 206-685-2310. We look forward to hearing from you!