Strengths Model Case Management
Workshop
Do you sometimes feel…
- It is difficult to avoid getting drawn into reactive, transactional, crises -driven case management approaches?
- It is difficult to stay client-centered and strengths-based when balancing caseload demands, no-shows, and setbacks?
- It is difficult to keep the focus on movement and personal empowerment when people seem to be moving in a different direction?
- Like you are exhausted by the end of each week?
- It would be helpful to have more effective tools, approaches, and interventions to make an impact in the lives of the people you serve?
If so, the Strengths Model Case Management workshop can help you stay more grounded, intentional, and purposeful in your practice approach so that you can effectively make a difference in people’s lives.
Date: January 28, 29, & 30, 2025
Time: 8:30 AM – 12:30 PM PST each day
Location: Zoom webinar
Cost: $425 per attendee
Upon successful completion, 10.5 continuing education
hours will be provided through the New Mexico
Counseling and Therapy Practice Board by Via Positiva.
Questions? Contact rick@strengthsmodel.com
Workshop Overview
Join us and learn how to use the tools, methods, and interventions of Strengths Model Case Management to
increase your effectiveness in engaging and aligning with people in their recovery journey. Strengths Model Case
Management is an evidence-based practice, with over four decades of research, that is effective in improving life
outcomes for people with serious mental illnesses, including those with co-occurring substance use disorders.
This workshop is intended for adult and youth case managers, case management supervisors, and is also applicable to clinicians,
counselors, and peer support workers.
What you will learn…
- How to incorporate learning from neuroscience to remain grounded, intentional, and goal-focused and not get continuously drawn into reactive, transactional approaches to case management
- How to use empathic communication and trauma-informed approaches to build an effective working alliance.
- How to employ noticing behaviors to identify key values, capabilities, and useful/helpful personal and environmental strengths amid life challenges that people experience.
- How to create a focal point for effective care coordination during early engagement. How to focus on incremental movement, opportunities for learning, and personal empowerment to help people move toward what they value or want in life.
- How to better make use of naturally occurring resources to open potential pathways for movement.
- How to re-engage during times of setbacks. Ways to build your toolbox by incorporating effective client-centered practice tools, approaches, and interventions.
Instructors
Dr. Rick Goscha is CEO and Founder of Strengths Model Inc. Dr. Goscha, along with Dr. Charles Rapp, is a co-developer of Strengths
Model Case Management and author of the book The
Strengths Model: A Recovery-Oriented Approach to Mental
Health Services (published by Oxford University Press), now
in its third edition. Dr. Goscha has over 35 years of
experience in behavioral health, including provision of clinical services,
supervision and program management, agency executive leadership,
research and evaluation, and policy development. He is an internationally
renowned speaker and author.
Ally Mabry, LMSW, is a Strengths Model trainer and consultant who works with Strengths Model Inc. Ms. Mabry has worked in the behavioral health field for thirty years in a variety of different roles, including provision of clinical services and executive management. Ms. Mabry has worked with teams nationally and internationally to implement Strengths Model Case Management with diverse populations, including adults with serious mental illnesses, children, transition-age youth, older adults, unhoused individuals, and survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking.
