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Welcome!
Thank you for visiting Paper Boat. Our goal is to provide information and support for individuals and agencies who are building and operating systems of care for children and families, especially those using wraparound as a tool for insuring that the plans of care generated in those systems are strength-based, family-cerented and solution-driven and reflect the best available insights from research and shared learning among practitioners.
If you are new to Paper Boat, and to wraparound, you can trace the development of the wraparound approach through the archived articles and presentations that are stored here. If you are returning to Paper Boat after being away for a while, we have uploaded a variety of new presentations and virtual workshops. They are at the top of the stack in the various archives.
Our understanding of what wraparound is and what it isn't has evolved in the nearly 15 years since we launched Paper Boat. It is a tool for collaborative problem solving when children and families have complex needs, but it isn't family therapy. It is a tool for integrating multiple formal and informal sources of support and assistance, but it isn't the answer for everything. At its heart it is a simple approach that anyone can use to facilitate a thoughtful and creative solution when there are multiple concerns across several life domains, but it is not easy to install as a component of a large service system, nor is it easy to insure consistency and effectiveness in its implementation.
The stories, articles and workshops stored on this website reflect our attempt to stay current with the growth of the system of care concept and the wraparound approach and to provide as much guidance as we can to the theories and principles underlying these models, and to the practical challenges of developing and implementing comprehensive systems of care.
The Article Archive contains both articles and practice guides.
The Residentialy-Based Services section contains materials developed to help the state of California establish four pilot projects that will integrate residential and community-based services for children and youth with severe emotional and behavioral disorders and their families.
Pat Miles and John Franz are consultants. The Services section describes some of the ways we can be of assistance to your projects.
The Presentation section contains power point presentations from workshops we have given for our clients.
The Virtual Workshops section contains longer presentations from day long training sessions.
The Directive Supervision section describes Pat's system for providing strength-based, data-driven management of human service agencies and provides a link to the Directive Supervision web site.
Thanks for coming aboard.
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