Evidence-based & Strength-centered Practices for Effective Case Management

(4-Hour program conducted in two 2-hour Sessions over 2 days)

Dates: February 6 & 7, 2012
Times: 2:00 - 4:00 PM EST
Location: Online Webinar - Via Your PC

** Earn up to 4 CE Hours

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Program Details

Adopting evidence-based and strength-centered case management practices is a commitment to professionalism, quality care and effective client services.  It results in a collaborative process of assessing, planning, facilitating, and advocating for options and services designed to efficiently meet clients' individual needs.

This program will help you differentiate traditional ineffective and deficit-centered practices from evidence-based and strength-centered approaches the field has moved to.

Program Goals and Learning Outcomes:

Participants will learn to help their clients achieve desirable outcomes by promoting interventions which link individuals to appropriate resources.  Inaddition, you will get the opportunity to;

  • Learn current trends in case management

  • Understanding new state and federal requirements

  • Strength-centered vs Deficit-based approaches

  • Gain knowledge of key components of successful case management

  • Effective client interviewing skills for building healthy collaborative client relationships

  • Be in a position to help clients set goals and facilitate their achievement

  • Learn to use warm transfers to insure an integrated client services delivery

  • Learn to write better goals, objectives and interventions for increased accountability and improved client outcomes

  • Learn to determine clients’ level of readiness and work efficiently toward desired goals

  • Case Management Process, interventions and discharge cues

  • Transtheoretical Model for Change - How People Change

Participants will receive editable resources they can adapt for their internal use.

Who should attend:

Workers in mental health, including substance abuse, developmental disabilities, and mental illness
Community & Family Services Agencies
Social Workers & Substance Abuse Counselors
Adult and Juvenile Case Managers, Supervisors and Managers
Probation Officers, Supervisors and Managers
Housing, Homelessness Programs & Resident Populations Managers
Youth Services Programs
Veteran Services Programs
Workforce Specialist
Nursing Care Professionals
DWI Court Administrators
Agency Trainers, among others.

Webinar Leader:

Mark M. Lowis, MSW, LMSW, MINT, President, MML Consulting, LLC

Mark Lowis has extensive experience in the public and private sector for mental health and substance abuse services.  He offers assistance to agencies and facilities in the design, development, and management of the following areas:

·         Utilization Management

·         Quality Management

·         Utilization Review

·         Clinical Supervision

·         Staff Development and Training

·         Clinical Chart Review and Performance Monitoring

·         Contracts and Services Analyst

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Mark has provided leadership and consultation in Utilization Management (UM) and Quality Management (QM) to various agencies and at the state level over the years.  He has helped agencies reduce their dollar amount of loss for non-certs and denials by helping to improve Utilization Review (UR) processes and staff trainings.  Mark is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) and provides training and clinical supervision in this evidenced based practice.  Additionally, Mark provides team building activities and training that help to increase the partnerships between functional departments, management, and contractors in the field of mental health and substance abuse.  Mark has a great deal of experience designing and developing performance measurement systems for maintaining the standards of accrediting bodies, as well as systems for continuous quality improvement, contracting, and services analysis.

REGISTRATION FEES

INDIVIDUALS *
  • Single attendee: $195
  • 2 or more attendees: $150/Person
* CE TRAINING HOURS AND CERTIFICATE

TEAMS **
  • LOCATION: $395/Team

    ** CE TRAINING HOURS AND CERTIFICATE NOT ISSUED.

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Note: This program will be delivered online via your computer and your telephone.  After your registration, you will receive instructions for joining the webinar.  

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