Debbie Dominquez-Wiggins

As a highly skilled bilingual Family Partner on a multidisciplinary team providing collaborative mental health support to client and families at Behavioral Health & Recovery Services. One has to develop a great rapport with families by being transparent and self effacing. This style allows families and clients to follow along in a manner that builds on client success. As the client and families advocate it is important to create a higher level of visibility within the systems of care in order to set a precedent for collaborative optimum care. In the role as a Family Partner it has been important to use the framework of a shared vision among all colleagues as an important aspect of the system. This will allow others on the team to affect change on a micro level one must see what the obstacles are on the micro level. If the team focuses on a shared vision it is very possible the client will see results if their is consistency and persistence as an effect to change.