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Voices from the Trenches
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Dr. David Arredondo, medical director of Eastfield Ming Quong Children and Family Services in San Jose, supervises family- and community-based treatment programs for troubled youth. He is also a consultant for Santa Clara County's Juvenile Probation Department. |
Arredondo on the value of wraparound:
"When you treat a kid in an institution, he adapts to that institution, and he may learn maladaptive behaviors or socially inappropriate coping skills. But when you treat a child in his community, the coping skills that he learns are much more likely to be relevant in terms of normal social development. And the treatment is more likely to have an enduring impact. Wraparound [a model of treatment] uses the kid's natural support, family and extended family, rather than institutional support. The services build on a natural ecology of the child, from faith-based organizations to local merchants, teachers and schools, and the people you find in a child's life. The concept is congruent with the restorative justice model both in how it holds children accountable and in its competency building. The family is often the unit that is struggling, and wraparound strengthens the family, rather than breaking it apart."
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