Manually
Guiding Principles
CANS
Intensive Services
Documentation
100

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

What is the WISe manual?

100

The principle honored when services build on and enhance 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

What kind of response follows 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 a Crisis Response?

100

The document completed after each service encounter for a family/youth enrolled in services.

What is a progress note?

200

This determines eligibility for participation in the WISe program.

What is the CANS/WISe screen algorithum (or "CANS Screening)

200

The principle honored when services are family-focused and youth-centered; always incorporating the family's expertise, thoughts and feelings about what would be helpful to them. 

What is Family and Youth Voice and Choice?

200

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

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

200

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

Who are Peers?

200

The type of documentation completed for the monthly team meeting process?

What are Child and Family Team Meeting Notes?

300

The piece of furniture built with Intensive Services, 24/7 Crisis Response and Care Coordination 

The “WISe stool”?

300

The principle honored when services, strategies and supports are tailored to the unique strengths and needs of each youth and their family. 

What is individualized?

300

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

What is cultural humility?

300

Strategies and techniques applied early in the intervention to help the youth or family  participate in WISe.

What is Engagement?

300

The plan developed at the first meeting with the family to address potential risks and put strategies to address them in place?

What is the Safety Plan?

400

Clinician, FSS or Care Coordinator, Youth and Parent Peer

What roles are on the WISe clinical team?

400

The principle honored when services are provided with respect for the values, preferences, beliefs, culture and identity of the youth and their family.

What is culturally relevant?

400

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

BHAS

400

Preparation for this begins with the first intervention and is celebrated at the end of treatment.

What is transition?

400

This is completed every 90 days.

The CANS

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,  ( or FYSPRT)?

500

The principle honored when FBH never gives up on a youth or their family, regardless of a youth’s behavior, placement, family circumstances or availability of resources.

What is unconditional?

500
This is the theory on which the CANS is based.

What is communication theory?

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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