Evidence-based Case Management: An Introduction (2 CE Hours)

Program Summary

Adopting evidence-based and strength-centered case management practices is a commitment to professionalism, quality care and effective client services. It results in a collaborative process of assessing, planning, facilitating, and advocating for options and services designed to efficiently meet clients’ individual needs.

This program will help you differentiate traditional ineffective and deficit-centered practices from evidence-based and strength-centered approaches the field has moved to.

Program Goals and Learning Outcomes

Participants will learn to help their clients achieve desirable outcomes by promoting interventions which link individuals to appropriate resources. In addition, you will get the opportunity to;

• Learn current trends in case management
• Understanding new state and federal requirements
• Strength-centered vs Deficit-based approaches
• Gain knowledge of key components of successful case management
• Effective client interviewing skills for building healthy collaborative client relationships
• Be in a position to help clients set goals and facilitate their achievement
• Learn to use warm transfers to insure an integrated client services delivery
• Learn to write better goals, objectives and interventions for increased accountability and improved client outcomes
• Learn to determine clients’ level of readiness and work efficiently toward desired goals
• Case Management Process, interventions and discharge cues
• Transtheoretical Model for Change – How People Change
• Participants will receive editable resources they can adapt for their internal use.