WISe Manual
Guiding Principles
CANS
Intensive Services
Documentation
100

The WA State guidelines to ensure consistency in the goals, principles and delivery of WISe services.

What is the WISe manual?

100

WISe services are offered in a way that builds on and enhances the talents, skills, knowledge and assets of the youth and their family.

What is Strengths Based?

100

This domain describes the assets of a child or youth that can be used to support their progress.

What is the Strengths Domain?

100

When a youth and family calls for urgent help because of an intensive or acute situation that impacts the youth and their family.

What is Crisis Response?

100

Each service encounter for a family/youth enrolled in services should be documented by completing one of these.

What is a Daily Service Summary, a DSS?

200

Youth are eligible to participate in WISe if they meet what screening criteria?

What is the CANS/WISe screen algorithum. 

200

WISe services are family-focused and youth-centered, always incorporating their expertise, thoughts and feelings about what would be helpful to them. 

What is Family and Youth Voice and Choice?

200

The CANS is designed based on what theory?

What is communication theory?

200

Using individuals with lived experience as a vital part of the treatment team who share their story of hope and recovery to support youth and their families.

Who are Peers?

200

What type of documentation is completed for the monthly team meeting process?

What are Child and Family Team Meeting Notes?

300

Intensive Services, 24/7 Crisis Response, Care Coordination

That are the 3 legs of the “WISe stool”?

300

WISe services, strategies and supports are tailored to the unique strengths and needs of each youth and their family. 

What is individualized?

300

This level of rating requires immediate or intensive effort to address the need.

What is a “3” rating in a need category.

300

A youth or family is more likely to participate in WISe services if members of the WISe team have done what?

What is Engage the family or youth?
300

What type of plan does the clinician develop at the first meeting with the family to address potential risks and strategies for the youth?

What is the Safety Plan?

400

Clinician, FSS or Care Coordinator, Youth and Parent Peer

What are roles on the WISe clinical team?

400

WISe services are provided with respect for the values, preferences, beliefs, culture and identity of the youth and their family.

What is culturally relevant?

400

Recognizing cultural differences or uniqueness in the youth and families we serve.

What is cultural humility?

400

The ending celebration of a WISe intervention that should actually start at the beginning.

What is transition?

400

The CANS assessment is updated how often?

What is every 90 days?

500

A community WISe planning team that supports regional WISe implementation, led by a Youth Leader, Family Leader and System Partner Leader.

What is the Family Youth System Parent Roundtable,  FYSPRT?

500

We never give up on a youth or their family, regardless of a youth’s behavior, placement, family circumstances or availability of resources.

What is unconditional?

500
What system do we use to track CANS data for the state?

BHAS

500

The material things we provide youth and families  to support their WISe participation and progress toward treatment goals. 

What are concrete resources?

500

A written plan that coordinates the services to accomplish the family’s treatment goals.  This plan involves the youth and family, their WISe clinical team and other system partners and  community members.

What is the Cross System Care Plan?

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