If you take just 5 minutes to watch our new CANS booster video, it will help you reflect on your collaborative style and give you (and your team) ideas about why the CANS is a collaborative tool. You don't have to (and shouldn't be) doing CANS all alone-it's a team tool, so make sure everyone is doing their share, including your clients, their families, your colleagues, and other stakeholders. You can watch the video in just 5 minutes and find an easy corresponding activity and handouts you can use with a friend, supervisor, or in your team if you'd like. Don't miss out on this quick and easy CANS skill booster! Check it out now?

Did you know that there are engagement resources and guides on the Alameda TCOM website? Come check them out!

Engagement Guides: The Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) assessment tool is intended to be used collaboratively with youth, families, and teams. Effective collaboration relies on clear communication, trust, and a commitment to building consensus among team members. Review these guides and tip sheets to see if there are any gems that you can bring back and use in your practice to increase engagement and elevate youth and family voices in care.

For example, we have:

• CANS Tips to Engage Families – Conversation starters to inform the CANS that allow you to listen, learn, and explore.
• CANS Family Handout – A brief introduction to the CANS, including benefits and action levels.
• Using the CANS and ANSA with Individuals and Families – Tips for how to introduce the CANS to youth and families and explain the benefits of how it can impact treatment and increase team transparency.

The 20th Annual TCOM Conference will take place on October 2-4, 2024, at the Hotel Nikko in San Francisco, California. “This year's conference aims to continue the tradition of collaboration and innovation in climbing the hills of system change.”
 
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We are thrilled to introduce you to our newest Alameda TCOM Collaborative Member: Crystal Moore, MS, LMFT! Crystal is the Assistant Director of Training and Associate Director of the California Family Urgent Response System for Alameda County at Westcoast Children's Clinic. Crystal also provides supervision at The Psychotherapy Institute in Berkeley, and has previously held the roles of a therapist & clinical supervisor at Westcoast Children’s Clinic; worked at Casa de la Vida in a residential treatment program for Transition Age Youth; volunteered at a suicide prevention hotline; and was a board member for Healthy Black Families. Throughout her career, Crystal pays particular attention to the needs of the most marginalized and vulnerable and believes the CANS gives us a common language to better understand, rate and respond to the needs of the people we serve.