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Youth described as having complex care needs often present with a range of unmet needs across multiple domains that have persisted over time. When systems focus too narrowly on short-term stabilization, they can unintentionally lose sight of the youth’s deeper needs for belonging, connection and continuity. This can leave families and natural supports disconnected from treatment and unprepared to maintain progress once formal services step down or stop.
When relationships are strengthened throughout treatment, especially in times of crisis, families and natural supports remain connected and better prepared to sustain a youth’s long-term well-being. Building on this idea, this webinar offers a reframed approach to how we support youth with complex care needs by centering the whole child and whole family.
By the end of the webinar, participants will be able to:
- Identify how short-term stabilization efforts can unintentionally create disconnection between youth, families and supports, and apply strategies that emphasize belonging, connection and long-term well-being
- Describe how Wraparound principles and family teaming strengthen coordination and sustain engagement of parents, kin and natural supports throughout a youth’s care journey
- Identify system barriers and apply “barrier-busting” strategies to enhance teaming, collaboration and a one-system approach to supporting the whole child and family
Presenters:
Rebekah Cox is a Wraparound trainer and consultant with a decade of leadership in California’s Wraparound community. She has served as a family specialist, facilitator, clinician, supervisor, trainer and coach. Cox holds a master’s degree in counseling psychology and is pursuing a Ph.D. in leadership studies. Her statewide involvement includes serving on the California Wraparound Advisory Committee–Core Steering Committee and co-chairing both the Fidelity, Data and Outcomes Workgroup and the Southern California Wraparound Hub.
Tea Frazel (they/them) is a program specialist at UC Davis Human Services, where they lead the Kin-First Accelerator Program with the Center for Excellence in Family Finding, Engagement and Support. With nearly 20 years in public child welfare as a social worker, supervisor, trainer, coach, curriculum developer and consultant, Frazel specializes in leadership behaviors that advance racial equity and inclusion. They are committed to using practice-based research to address racial disproportionality and disparities in child welfare. Frazel brings their whole self to work, believing joy, community and play are vital to systems change.
Dawne’ Lynch is a strategist and connector in human services, currently serving with UC Davis Continuing and Professional Education. Her career spans roles as parent partner, supervisor and Wraparound fidelity coach. Deeply involved in California’s Wraparound movement, Lynch contributes to statewide training, technical assistance and systems change efforts. She partners with the California Department of Social Services and the Department of Health Care Services to advance cross-system practices that center youth and families. Known for translating complex policy into tools that elevate lived experience, Lynch leads with authenticity, integrity and compassion.
Tamara Trejos is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 15 years of experience supporting youth and families navigating systems such as special education, child and family services and mental health. As program coordinator for Wraparound programs at Oak Grove Center, she oversees teams and contracts serving Kaiser Permanente patients, special education students across Riverside County and adopted youth placed from surrounding areas. Trejos’s most meaningful qualifications come from her lived experience as a mother of two children with special needs.