Family Driven Teaming is a Wraparound‑informed approach that brings youth with complex needs and their family caregivers together with natural and professional supports across child‑serving systems. Using a coordinated, trauma‑informed, strengths‑based, and culturally responsive planning process, the model ensures supports are aligned around what matters most to the family and youth.
Through regular team meetings, families and youth lead the planning process as equal partners, building skills and confidence over time. The model helps teams identify priority needs, leverage existing resources, work to cultivate new resources when needed, and create measurable, adaptable plans that strengthen self‑efficacy and improve outcomes now and into the future.
The Skill-Based Competency Endorsement in Family Driven Teaming is a modern, practice-focused training experience designed to build real-world skills, not just knowledge. Through live virtual courses, consultation, and fieldwork, participants develop the confidence and competence needed to partner meaningfully with youth, families, natural supports, involved providers, and systems.
Family Driven Teaming training is structured in levels that reflect different options for engagement and support, rather than a single, linear pathway. Learners and programs may build individual teaming skills to strengthen their existing model or engage in the full sequence of courses to implement the complete Family Driven Teaming model.
Programs choose the level that best fits their role, goals, and readiness, ranging from stand‑alone training, to courses with guided consultation, to a higher level of support that includes supervised fieldwork and a capstone project.
Each level offers a deeper layer of support and accountability, allowing programs to match training intensity to workforce needs while maintaining a clear connection to quality practice, demonstrated competence, and future readiness for full model adoption.
Our Courses
This graphic shows the step‑by‑step progression of a course, highlighting how learning intentionally moves from knowledge to real‑world practice.
Each course begins with a brief pre‑course knowledge assessment, followed by live virtual training to build core understanding and skill.
Learners then engage in structured consultations and supported fieldwork to apply learning directly with youth and families, concluding with a post‑course knowledge assessment that demonstrates growth in confidence, competence, and practical application.
YFTI Learning Management System
Our Learning Management System supports the full learning journey, from registration to completion, by providing a centralized space to access training, track progress, and manage course requirements.
Learners can easily complete knowledge assessments, submit feedback, and document fieldwork and consultation activities, while organizations can monitor participation, skill development, and outcomes over time.