Child Adolescent Needs and Strengths – NY (CANS–NY)

The CANS-NY serves as a guide in decision making for Health Homes Serving Children, as well as to guide service planning specifically for children and adolescents under the age of 21 with behavioral needs, medical needs, developmental disabilities, and juvenile justice involvement. The purpose of the CANS-NY is to accurately represent the shared vision of the child serving system—child and families. As such, completion of the CANS-NY is accomplished in order to allow for the effective communication of this shared vision for use at all levels of the system. Since its primary purpose is communication, the CANS-NY is designed based on communication theory rather than the psychometric theories that have influenced most measurement development.

CANS-NY Institute Website: https://cansnyinstitute.org/


    CANS–NY In-Person Training Announcement – July 2020 (PDF)

    The NYS Department of Health and the CANS-NY Technical Assistance Institute are hosting CANS–NY introductory and supervisory trainings across the State throughout 2020. Due to public health considerations, the summer 2020 trainings will be offered in webinar format. This webinar format will meet the NYS DOH in-person training requirement, as the training announcement indicated, there are processes in place during these webinar trainings to ensure accountability to training requirements. NYS DOH will work with lead Health Homes to determine a new completion target date for all new Health Home staff to be in compliance. The CANS-NY Introductory Training will be offered as a course which includes 3 distinct webinars. Each webinar will last no more than 2 hours. Learners may select the date/time that works best for each of the 3 webinars. Offerings of the CANS-NY Supervisory training are to be determined at this time. To register for these trainings:

    • Log on to www.tcomtraining.com
    • On the home page, choose “New York” as the Category for the calendar
    • Click on the training date that works best for you
    • Click “Details” to view the training’s registration page and register
    • You will receive an email notification regarding your registration and a second email confirming that your registration has been approved.

The NYS Department of Health and the CANS-NY Technical Institute would like to announce training opportunities and resources for Health Home/C-YES Care Managers and their Supervisors in the continued effort to support and strengthen the collaborative practice when utilizing the CANS-NY assessment tool. The CANS-NY is a tool designed to support deeply collaborative practice from assessment to care planning to progress monitoring. The training will emphasize practice, role-play, and experiential understanding of youth and family engagement strategies, including the use of outreach contacts to develop engagement and begin assessment, an understanding of the importance of the assessment process in complex care coordination, and the ability to build a shared understanding of the purpose of the CANS-NY to youth and families during the assessment and care planning process. Strategies for using the CANS-NY action levels to develop a shared vision with youth and family, to negotiate disagreement and build consensus, and to talk about sensitive topics with youth and family will be presented and practiced. Throughout the training, a range of strategies to build, track, and sustain engagement with youth and their caregivers will be learned by participants.  https://tcomtraining.com/

CANS–NY – Training Course

CANS–NY and the UAS–NY Resources

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