The Ocean Partnership for Children philosophy embraces the “wraparound” concept of services. Wraparound is a family centered, community-oriented, strengths-based, highly individualized planning process aimed at helping people achieve important outcomes by helping them meet their unmet needs both within and outside of formal human services systems, while they remain in their neighborhoods and homes, whenever possible.The "wraparound" philosophy forms the center of the Ocean Partnership for Children's core values. OPC offers unconditional care to families, which means that a plan of care will be changed and readdressed as often as necessary to help a family succeed. These plans are flexibly funded so that they can be changed when needed and not according to artificial deadlines.
Wraparound is a model used in 35 locations around the country and is now being implemented statewide for the first time anywhere right here in New Jersey. The goal is to keep the treatment process team driven so the entire Child and Family Team can support the family reach their vision, while helping the child and family meet needs with natural supports instead of services when possible. This is achieved through partnerships and integration with community resources, whereby families can be helped to achieve independence and the ability to link to their own services and community organizations when needed.
