Best Practices
Definitions of Success
Motivational Interviewing
Underlying Principles
Processes
100

Explaining to a client what is within your scope of work and what is not within your scope of work.

What are boundaries

100

Timeliness- 

The time in which to send a feedback form to a referral source that is not a Crossroads case. 

What is 

A Feedback Form should be submitted to the referral source within four weeks from the date of the referral.

100

These statements are examples of what? 


What I'm hearing is, sounds like you are saying, what do you mean when you say?

What is Active Listening

100

An Example of the Strengths Perspective? 

What is: Highlighting any attempts or progress made towards someone reaching their goals. 

100

Timeline of documenting case notes into CRM. 

What is 24 business hours

200

What are these examples of? 


Encouraging the client to communicate their goals and needs with you, with their doctor's office, and with other providers. 

Helping clients to use their voice through role playing

Assist the client to utilize grievance processes if they wish to

What is Advocacy and Coaching

200

A client reaches out for food resources, a resource navigator provides them with the number to SECOM to contact for food. This should be documented as what activity in CRM? 

What is an Indirect Outbound Referral 

200

Name the 3 key elements of Motivational Interviewing

What is

  • Collaboration with the client
  • Drawing out the client’s ideas about change
  • Emphasizing the client’s autonomy
200

Health Net's process of continuous cycles of analyzing the history and policies related to systemic racism, processing how this impacts self and others (recognizing privilege and disparities) and moving toward an inclusive empowerment framework in problem-solving

What is Equity Learning 

200

Health Net of West Michigan developed this policy to ensure documentation of clients’ agreement to services, to meet contractual obligations with funding sources, as well as to inform clients of the purpose of services and their right to privacy after they agree to services with Health Net.

Informed Consent

300

The purpose of having Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Service Standards

What are best practices to use when interacting with a client via interpreters

300

What CRM activity is this an example of? A resource navigator calls with a client to HAP and connects with them to find information about open availability at Degage. 

What is a direct outbound referral 
300

What Motivational Interviewing aspect is this statement 

“On a scale of 1 to 10, how important is it to you to make this change?”; “Why are you at a ___ and not a ___?”; “What might happen that would move you to a ___?”)

What is Reflective Listening
300

Which technique are these examples a reflection of? 


Ask, Tell, Ask

Active Listening

I Do, We, Do, You Do

Advocacy and Coaching

Empowerment Technique

300

Name 4 Safety Protocols that are used when going on a home visit

What is 

Asking who will be present 

Notify supervisor/ team about home visit

Update outlook with case number or client inital and address of where you will be 

Ensure your personal cell phone is charged

Only offering visits during business hours

Do not park in the clients driveway

400

Name 3 techniques for de-escalation 

And 

Name 3 barriers to de-escalation

What is: 

Remain Calm, Keep tone and body language neutral, Avoiding overreacting, open as many clear lines of communication 


Becoming emotionally involved, engaging in power struggles, telling the other person you know how they feel, raising your voice

400

Client Outreach- 

The timeline and outreach attempts of the initial outreach process to speak with a client of a regular referral  

What is 

Within 3 days of referral/screening date- phone call 1 and text message

Two days later 2nd phone call

Two days later close case

400

Provide 4 examples of Open ended questions regarding housing needs

What is: 

What does your housing look like currently? 

How would you accomplish paying your rent in the future? 

What does it look like when that happens? 

400

What is an example of I Do, We Do, You Do? 

The Resource Navigator will reach out to MDHHS with the client on the line to ask about an application they filled out. 

The next conversation, the client and Resource Navigator call together but the client leads the discussion with MDHHS and Resource Navigator fills in gaps when appropriate or client asks. 

The next conversation, the client tells the resource navigator that they had spoken with MDHHS and completed tasks they need to for their application

400

Describe why we ask clients to provide a self rating for their needs being met

What is: 

We are tying to understand how a client feels about their referral reasons outside of the efforts we make. 

 

500

Name the 5 guiding principles of Trauma Informed Care and the 4 R's of Trauma informed care

What Is: 

Safety, Choice, Collaboration, Trustworthiness, and Empowerment


Realize, Recognize, Respond, Resist

500

Explain why we take time to resolve our needs in CRM, what does that process do?

What is: 

To reflect accurate information of the efforts made and worked on between staff and the client

To show success/unsuccessful connections to resources in the community. 

To show to our funders how effective we are

500
You need to identify these four things when in the preparatory stage of Change Talk 

What are Desires, Ability, Reason, Need

500

What is this situation an example of? 


What do you already know about HAP? (client states their understanding) 

In addition, Much of our screening and assessment process can be completed over the phone. The conversation will include many questions about you, your family, or anyone else that is experiencing the crisis with you.

To make sure I explained this well, Can you tell me how you would tell someone else?

What is Ask, Tell, Ask

500

Name the process/protocols in place to use when working with a client who is struggling with suicidal ideations

What is: 

- QPR

-Police Welfare Check

-Discuss a client safety plan