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ABSTRACT
Michigan Department of Health and Human Services
CANS/CAT Project
Purpose
This proposal is to provide technical assistance and consultation to the state of Michigan
Department of Health and Human Services in order to implement a customized Child
and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) and Crisis Assessment Tool (CAT) within
a Transformational Collaborative Outcomes Management (TCOM) framework. The
CANS and CAT are communimetric tools that organize information and operationalize
the TCOM framework which is rooted in the following guiding principles:
• The belief that all interventions and assessments should be culturally
responsive and respectful.
• People should have a voice and choice with regard to participating in any
assessments and interventions.
• All interventions should be personalized, respectful and have demonstrable
value to the people they serve.
• Collaborative processes inclusive of children and families, should be used for
all decisions at all levels of the system.
• Consensus on action is the primarcy outcome of all collaborative processes.
• Information about the people served and their personal change should always
inform decision making at all levels of the system.
• All of our work should be accomplished with respect to the earth and our
impact on it.
Qualifications
The CANS is a functional assessment tool that has been in use in child welfare,
children’s behavioral health, educational and juvenile justice systems since the late
1990s. Developed by John S. Lyons, PhD while at Northwestern University, the CANS
is now used across the United States, Canada and over 10 countries internationally. It
is estimated that 80% of children served in public behavioral health and child welfare
systems in the United States have had a CANS. Since the development of the CANS,
other similar tools have been created including the Adult Needs and Strengths
Assessment (ANSA), Family Advocacy and Support Tool (FAST), Crisis Assessment
Tool (CAT), and the Readiness Inventory for Successful Employment (RISE).
During the last 30+ years Dr. Lyons’ work has received support from the organizations
that he has worked in which contributed to the development of his team and the
evolution of the Transformational Collaborative Outcomes Management (TCOM)
approach: University of Ottawa, Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, and most
recently at the Center for Innovation in Population Health (IPH Center) at the University
of Kentucky. Established in 2019, the IPH Center provides a platform for the TCOM
approach to flourish in a research setting that can draw multi-sector collaborative
relationships with key partners in the academy as well as throughout the human
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service sectors. Within the context of the IPH Center, TCOM and its tools, such as the
CANS and CAT, broadens the strategy of personal transformation to addressing
population health improvement.
Methods
1. TCOM Implementation, Development, and Educational Support (TIDES)
a. TCOM implementation, technical assistance, consultation for CANS and CAT
tools
2. CANS Training & Support
a. TCOM Overview
b. CANS/CAT Orientation
c. CANS/CAT Training of Trainers (TOT)
d. CANS Treatment Planning
e. CANS Supervisor Training
f. CANS Supervisor Community of Practice Meetings
3. Precision Analytics
a. Decision Support Model Development – CANS/CAT
b. Clinical Case Review – CANS/CAT
c. CANS Data Analytsis, Reporting (incl. latent class analysis)
d. CANS Advanced Analytics (incl. LASSO)
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Status | Finished |
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Effective start/end date | 8/1/23 → 9/30/23 |
Funding
- Michigan Department of Health & Human Services: $79,540.00
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Projects
- 1 Finished
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Michigan DHHS CANS, CAT Project
Lyons, J. (PI), Tong, X. (CoI), Vsevolozhskaya, O. (CoI) & Fernando, A. (Former PI)
Michigan Department of Health & Human Services
8/1/23 → 9/30/23
Project: Research project