Milwaukee County

This program serves youth and adults referred from Milwaukee County’s Comprehensive Community Services Program. Staff meet one-on-one with clients struggling in various aspects of their life. Staff use goal-oriented interventions to support the youths’ care plan, and at times support the parents in enhancing the parent-child relationship. Interventions may include social skills, emotional regulation, anger management, independent living skills, and behavior management.

Professional Services Group’s Milwaukee Dual Youth Care Coordination Program operates within the Wraparound Milwaukee System of Care in partnership with Children , Youth and Family Services (CYFS) and Wraparound. The program is designed to provide case management services to youth and their families that are dually enrolled in Comprehensive Community Services (CCS) and Children’s Long Term Support Waiver (CLTS) through one Care Coordinator. This Care Coordinator will be responsible for designing a single individualized care plan that includes services and supports across the CCS and CLTS programs, as well as the youth’s natural support network and community. This program embraces the wraparound philosophy of being team and strengths-based, collaborative, and outcomes-driven. Youth and families in this program are equal partners in designing services around their strengths, needs, and unique circumstances. This team believes families know what they need and want to become resilient, successful, and self-sufficient.

This program conducts Independent Initial Assessments for the Division of Milwaukee Child Protective Services (DMCPS). Independent investigations of alleged abuse and neglect are mandated whenever there is a substantial probability of bias by the investigating agency. Independent investigations may be conducted for the following reasons: 1) Report of abuse or neglect by a foster parent. 2) Maltreatment of a foster child by another adult other than a foster parent. 3) Report of abuse and neglect by staff of a residential facility of a child placed by DMCPS. These investigations are completed in a manner consistent with the state of Wisconsin Child Protective Access and Initial Assessment Standards.

The Placement Referral Unit works collaboratively with Initial Assessment (IA) and the contracted ongoing services agencies within the Division of Milwaukee Child Protective Services (DMCPS). This program refers children and families to the appropriate ongoing services agency that will best meet the needs of the child(ren) who require out-of-home placement or families who need intensive in-home services. The goal is to place children, as a sibling group to the greatest extent possible, in the least restrictive setting that will meet the needs of the children. Whenever possible and appropriate, children will be placed with a relative first.

This program is responsible for conducting reviews of child welfare cases for Access, Initial Assessment and Ongoing Services, using standardized review instruments that measure state and federal child welfare standards. Staff utilize the Onsite Review Instrument through the Child and Family Services Review process while conducting statewide reviews of Child Welfare practices.