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Wrap Around Servies have become a staple of child welfare and children’s mental health services and its dissemination has had strong support in Maryland. A new monograph

Phases and activities of the wraparound process. Portland, OR: National Wraparound Initiative, Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children’s Mental Health, Portland State University (http://www.rtc.pdx.edu/PDF/PhaseActivWAProcess.pdf) has recently been developed with support from the State of MAryland, SAMHSA, and the National Technical Assistance Partnership for Child and Family Mental Health. The purpose of this document is increase the fidelity with which wrap around is delivered so that the activiies that are part of the practice model are better articulated and more clearly phased. This is an important contribution with broad input. Wrap Around is considered a promising practice with high child welfare relevance by the California Evidence Based Practice Clearinghouse on Child Welfare and was included in one of the early volumes on evidence based children’s mental health services edited by Barbara Burns and Kimberly Hoagwood, Burns, B. J., & Hoagwood, K. (2002). Community treatment for youth: Evidence-based interventions for severe emotional and behavior disorders. New York: Oxford University Press.