Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) Summary

The CANS CANS stands for Child and Adolescent Need and Strengths. CANS is a tool that identifies and ranks strengths and needs of children. Summary aids workers in placement by identifying service needs Needs (formerly referred to as Concerns) are behaviors and risks displayed by the child or family. This should include the reasons for DCS involvement with the family/child. and support performance based contracting to facilitate permanency for children. The CANS CANS stands for Child and Adolescent Need and Strengths. CANS is a tool that identifies and ranks strengths and needs of children. Summary Report allows the user to generate a hardcopy version of any CANS CANS stands for Child and Adolescent Need and Strengths. CANS is a tool that identifies and ranks strengths and needs of children. record in the database. All the stored information of child for various categories is displayed in this report in graphical form as well as in descriptive form.

User Entry Parameters

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Access

Case tab > Workload tab, click case record ID > Case Overview screen, click Assessments in link menu > Assessments screen > CANS CANS stands for Child and Adolescent Need and Strengths. CANS is a tool that identifies and ranks strengths and needs of children. list , click report link.