The CANS is a helpful document that can be used in supervision to help organize clinical information collected during assessment in a consistent manner to improve communication among those involved in planning care for a child or adolescent. Supervisors can use the CANS as a decision-support tool, as a quality improvement tool and as an outcome monitoring tool. Discussions about agreement on how the child’s needs and strengths are described provides the foundation for agreement about what approaches to take to address those needs and identify and build strengths.
CANS TIPS FOR SUPERVISORS
Supervision grounded in using the CANS is supportive, collaborative, and transformative. CANS helps guide service planning conversations and practice.
CANS RESPONSIBILITIES ACROSS THE AGENCY CANS is an assessment tool used not just by Clinicians, but by everyone across the agency. No matter your role or job position, you play an active part in the utilization of CANS—whether it’s through gathering information directly with families or assessing patterns in CANS data across programs.
HOW TO COACH A SUPERVISEE THROUGH USING CANS 7 Core Skills to Use During Supervision: Presence, Listening, Reflecting Back, Questioning, Feedback, Accountability, Modeling
INCORPORATING THE CANS INTO CLINICAL SUPERVISION Many supervisors don’t quite know how to incorporate the CANS into their supervision discussions with clinicians and other treatment team members. This tip sheet provides some key questions that supervisors can use to help bring the CANS into the room.