Friday, November 7, 2025

13:30 - 16:30

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Strengths Model Case Management (SMCM) is an evidence-based practice with over four decades of research demonstrating its effectiveness. The goal of SMCM is to help people make movement toward valued life goals and roles by building upon their unique strengths and capabilities, even amid the internal and external life challenges they experience. SMCM aligns with Housing First principles and values, inviting people to work in partnership with the support team to continue building a life that contributes to a sense of meaning, purpose, identity, and empowerment. In this workshop, Dr. Rick Goscha, the co-developer of Strengths Model Case Management, invites participants to explore how SMCM can enhance the effectiveness of a Housing First program. The workshop will include: • An overview of the Strengths Model’s core values, principles, and philosophical orientation (and how it aligns with Housing First). • Discussion of the neuroscience behind effective use of SMCM tools, interventions, and approaches. • Discussion of why an intentional, relation-based, trauma-informed, and goal-focused approach to care coordination and support is more effective than traditional reactive, transactional approaches to case management. • A visualization of the conceptual flow of SMCM and how it helps workers stay grounded and intentional from the early phase of engagement to graduated disengagement. • Case examples that demonstrate how SMCM tools (the Strengths Assessment and Personal Empowerment Plan) and interventions can be flexibly used in practice.

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