Professional Partner Program
INTRODUCTION
Teamwork is the fuel that allows common people to produce uncommon results.
The Professional Partner Program combines an ecological assessment and treatment planning process that utilizes the wraparound approach through intensive therapeutic care management. At the center of the program is the Professional Partner, who works in full partnership with each youth and his or her family.
The program is strength-based, family-centered and acknowledges families as equal partners. It promotes utilization of the least restrictive, least intrusive, developmentally appropriate, interventions in accordance with the strengths, needs, abilities, and preferences of the youth and family within the most normalized environment.
The Professional Partner Program utilizes specific methods for moving toward an interagency system of care by developing referral sources, collaborative working relationships, and integration and coordination with families and public and private child serving systems. The mix, intensity, duration and location of services and supports are individually tailored to meet the unique needs of each youth and his or her family.
The program is based upon the wraparound approach to service delivery relying on the natural support systems of the family in their neighborhood and community. The program also holds the belief that as the needs of a child/adolescent and his or her family become more complex, the interventions, services and supports they receive will become more individualized.
*The Professional Partner Program is a unique program funded through Region III Behavioral Health Services, Nebraska Health and Human Services, and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Mental Health.