Wraparound Evaluation and Research Team (WERT)
This website was created to facilitate dissemination of the Wraparound Fidelity Index (WFI) and to promote understanding within the service delivery evaluation field about the importance of maintaining fidelity to the wraparound process. This website contains descriptions of the WFI and the wraparound process, information on how to collaborate with our team and use the WFI, relevant literature and presentations, and links to related projects and institutions.
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October 21, 2007 WFI TRAINING TOOLKIT AVAILABLE FOR COLLABORATORS’ USE!
As of August, we have been accepting requests for collaboration from sites and programs that wish to use the WFI-4. WFI-4 collaborators get access to the following materials:
- The four WFI-4 respondent forms (Caregiver, Facilitator, Youth, and Team Member) plus Demographics form,
- WFI-4 User's Manual,
- WFI-4 Data entry shells in Excel and SPSS format,
- A WFI-4 training presentation in Power Point format, and
- The WFI-4 Interviewer Training Toolkit
The WFI-4 Interviewer Training Toolkit is an important new support to the WFI-4. It includes five CDs with eight pre-recorded WFI-4 sample administrations. Each sample administration also includes a corresponding WFI-4 score sheet and scoring explanations. Collaborating sites are expected to use the Training Toolkit to expose prospective interviewers to multiple WFI-4 interviews and train them to score the WFI-4 accurately.
If you have any questions regarding the WFI-4, or any of the other WFAS tools, please look at our WFAS Overview with our comprehensive Frequently Asked Questions document. If you would like to review or complete the Collaborator’s Agreement form, just go to the tab marked "Becoming a WFI-4 Collaborator" on this webpage. If you still have questions, feel free to email us at wrapeval@u.washington.edu.
Best regards,
Eric, April and the Wraparound Evaluation and Research Team
October 1, 2007
We continue to pilot test the other components of the Wraparound Fidelity Assessment System, including the Team Observation Measure and Document Review Measure. Collaborators who use these measures will be provided User’s Manuals, training materials, and supports for data entry and reporting at no cost or very low cost in exchange for help with our piloting process. If you are interested in using either of these tools, please contact us, as we still need pilot testing communities!
August 22, 2007
An exciting new development: WERT is currently developing the WFI-4 Online Data Entry and Reporting System. This web-based system will allow licensed users to enter their WFI-4 data using a web portal that will compile their WFI-4 data into one exportable database, regardless of how many people are entering data, and regardless of where they are located. This system will allow the user sites to automatedly create a number of different fidelity reports at their convenience. This system will be launched in early 2008, and will be available to all licensed collaborators. Our thanks to Accountability Solutions of Santa Fe New Mexico for their help in developing this system!
This project is supported by the Child, Adolescent, and Family Branch of the Center for Mental Health Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration; the National Institute of Mental Health (grant number R41-MH077356); The Innovations Institute at the University of Maryland, Baltimore; and the University of Washington Division of Public Behavioral Health and Justice Policy. Special thanks to the University of Vermont Department of Psychology for their long history of support to this project.
If you have any questions, comments, concerns, please e-mail WERT at
wrapeval@u.washington.edu