I want to thank everyone who worked so hard to put on a fabulous 2019 Conference for Transformational Collaborative Outcomes Management (TCOM, for short!) TCOM, of course, is the framework behind such tools as the CANS, ANSA, and FAST, which seeks to improve the human services system through clearer communication … and advanced analytics! The […]
Shedding a Little Light on the Needs of Children Referred to Evidence Based Treatments
I recently received an email from Molly Brunk, Ph.D., MST Services Director of Quality Assurance, asking if CDR could shed light on the needs of children referred to Evidence Based Treatments (EBTs) in Pennsylvania. I was very glad to receive this request from an esteemed stakeholder such as MST International. MST is one of the […]
Supporting CANS in Italy
Transformational Collaborative Outcomes Management (TCOM) is an international phenomenon, with implementations in all populated continents (sorry, Antarctica). Recently, I had the opportunity to visit Milan, Italy, where a local collaborative of stakeholders (including the local municipal body), are implementing a sophisticated multi-level CANS initiative to transform youth outcomes. Under the stewardship of Drs. Antonella Costantino […]
I Learned So Much at the Northwest TCOM Conference in Idaho.
In early May, I had the exciting opportunity to present at the Northwest TCOM conference held in Boise, Idaho. The event, I believe, was by all accounts a success, and acted the way most good TCOM events do. That is to say: collaboratively, with us conference “instructors” learning as much as the “students” in the […]
Communimetric Science vs Psychometric Tools: A refresher on what makes TCOM unique from psychometric outcomes tools.
I was recently asked to explain the difference between “communimetric” science (which powers TCOM tools like the CANS, ANSA or FAST) and traditional “psychometric” tools which is used in more traditional behavioral outcomes tools. The best explanation for this difference, of course, is in John Lyons’ book on the topic, Communimetrics (Springer, 2009). However, this colleague […]