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Barbara Dunn, LCSW, ACSW
Magellan Healthcare
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From Access to Engagement: How does managed care use the Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths tool?
By Barbara Ann Dunn, ACSW, LCSW, Director, Program Innovation and Outcomes, Magellan Healthcare Engagement In my last post we looked at Key Decision 1 (Access) and how managed care uses the Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) to enable access to services. Key Decision 2, Engagement, is about bringing people from access — opening the door — to becoming equal partners in the helping system. Engagement is built on respect and understanding that youth and family are experts in their own lives and need to captain their own ships. Engagement uses… Read More
Different Models using the CANS with Family Support and Advocacy
By: Janet Hoeke, Founder and Owner of WillowTree Mosaics Recently a friend asked me to join their Wraparound care coordination team as part of the child and family team in the role of family support. The CANS wasn’t used in Idaho when my child was dealing with his serious emotional disturbance, so this was my first exposure to a process I have been advocating for over the last 4 years. Joining this team, I had only an advocate’s notion of what to expect. I have become close with this family and have… Read More
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