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What is Child Mental Health Wraparound?



Indiana Medicaid offers coverage for the Child Mental Health Wraparound (CMHW) home and community-based services (HCBS). These services are provided to youth, ages 6-17, who have a diagnosis of a serious emotional disturbance.

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Wraparound is a team-based, collaborative process for helping children and youth with special mental health needs. Families learn to identify and use their strengths and community resources to address their individual needs. It ensures that all of the potential needs youth and their families require are being addressed.  Wraparound differs from many service delivery strategies, in that it provides a comprehensive, youth- and family-driven way of responding when children or youth experience serious mental health or behavioral challenges.

 

Wraparound puts the child or youth and family at the center.  With support from a team of professionals and natural supports, the family's ideas and perspectives about what they need and what will be helpful drive all of the work in Wraparound.