When President Trump declared that he expected social distancing policies to relax “by Easter,” many of us in public health rightly guffawed. The rate at which coronavirus spreads, clearly showed that Easter is exactly when we need to be socially distancing most aggressively. However, the President’s proclamation was a very good illustration of one of […]
Action Trajectories for Covid-19
As we are regularly reminded: “The CANS (or ANSA, or FAST …) is not just a tool.” We do not rate TCOM tools separately from our work: we use the tools to assess needs, build on strengths, and make good treatment plans. In this time of pandemic, TCOM implementation should help focus your efforts. There […]
Adjusting to COVID-19
In human services, and especially the world of TCOM, we spend most of our time interacting directly with the public. TCOM as an approach to human services management, in fact, prides itself on keeping the human while gaining the power of digitization for the work we do serving children and families directly. This is one […]
Integrating the CANS and PSC-35 into your Child Serving Practices
California’s recent mandates for child behavioral health providers to score CANS-50 and PSC-35s at 6-month intervals in their child serving programs is a landmark moment. This will create a lot of meaningful data that will allow revolutionary new care and planning, and has the potential to improve our child caring system by leaps and […]
Highlights from the 2019 TCOM Conference
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 […]