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 […]
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 […]