Introduction and overview of Comprehensive Case Management for Substance Abuse Treatment and funding under managed care

This training will demonstrate how case management should focuses on the whole individual and stresses comprehensive assessment, service planning, and service coordination to address multiple aspects of a client’s life. Comprehensive substance abuse treatment often requires that clients move to different levels of care or systems; case management facilitates such movement. Whatever treatment providers’ attitudes toward managed care, they will have to accept that it is the new paradigm for health care. Well over one-half of the States are currently in the process of adopting some form of managed care for providing public-sector behavioral health care services. Many have already received Federal waivers to implement Medicaid managed behavioral health programs, and other waivers are planned or pending. Managed care has changed the context in which substance abuse treatment services are delivered, and substance abuse programs must prepare to function within this new environment if case management is to survive.

Participants will learn that comprehensive case management when implemented to its fullest, will enhance the scope of addictions treatment and the recovery continuum. A treatment professional utilizing case management will explore:

  â€œPlanning and coordinating a package of health and social services that is individualized to meet a particular client’s needs” 

 â€œ[A] process or method for ensuring that consumers are provided with whatever services they need in a coordinated, effective, and efficient manner”

 â€œHelping people whose lives are unsatisfying or unproductive due to the presence of many problems which require assistance from several helpers at once” 

 â€œMonitoring, tracking and providing support to a client, throughout the course of his/her treatment and after” 

 â€œAssisting the patient in re-establishing an awareness of internal resources such as intelligence, competence, and problem-solving abilities; establishing and negotiating lines of operation and communication between the patient and external resources; and advocating with those external resources in order to enhance the continuity, accessibility, accountability, and efficiency of those resources” 

 â€œAssess[ing] the needs of the client and the client’s family, when appropriate, and arranges, coordinates, monitors, evaluates, and advocates for a package of multiple services to meet the specific client’s complex needs.”

 This Introduction and overview of Comprehensive Case Management for Substance Abuse Treatment and funding under managed care will be open to existing providers nationally. Individual in the State of New York who are seeking initial credentialing for CPP/CPS and/or renewal CASAC/CPP/CPS can acquire 3 CEUs upon completion of this 3-hour workshop. This is essential training for behavioral healthcare providers in general and we will offer discount group rates. Our trainings are interactive and encourages dialog about best practices. The date of workshop will be announced within the next day or two. If you are interested in these kinds of workshops, let’s connect, I welcome you to join my network. Thurman

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