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TARGETED INSTITUTES
TARGETED INSTITUTE #14 9:30 AM SUNDAY • NAPLES 1
The Child and Adolescent Service Intensity Instrument (CASII):
A Tool for Child and Family Teams
OBJECTIVES—Participants will learn:
1. To describe the Child and Adolescent Service Intensity Instrument (CASII)
2. To discuss how the CASII can be used as part of a system of care reform
3. To describe how the CASII can be used by Child and Family Teams to document the appropriate level of the service
intensity for the child or adolescent and their family
4. How to use the Recovery Environment Dimension to capture the family’s perception of the environmental strengths
and stresses they experience
5. How to aggregate CASII data to communicate system needs to funding agencies and state legislatures
This Targeted Institute will focus on how the CASII can be used by Child and Family Teams to identify and
communicate to others the needed service intensity for the child and family. Faculty will describe the instrument and
how it can be used at multiple levels—at the system level as part of a system reform and at the service delivery level to
determine appropriate services for a child and family. Faculty will emphasize the use of this instrument as a tool for
Child and Family Teams that are developing individualized service plans for a youth and family.
The information and strategies to be presented are based on experience in Arizona where the CASII has been
implemented statewide as part of the Child and Family Team process to plan both low and high-intensity, communitybased,
individualized service plans. The role of families in Arizona’s system of care will be outlined along with family
perspectives on the use of the CASII. In addition, strategies for using the CASII as part of a statewide system of care
reform will be discussed.
Specific topics to be covered include:
• Overview of the CASII
• How to use the CASII in the Child and Family Team process
• How the CASII can be used to support system of care development in Arizona
• Role of parent-run organizations in systems of care
• Lessons learned from the use of the CASII in Arizona
• Examples of how the CASII is used in other states
• Overview of reliability and validity studies on the CASII
Faculty will lead the attendees in use of the CASII in the identification of the appropriate service intensity using a
vignette of an adolescent developed by the parent faculty member based on her son’s experiences.
The perspectives on the faculty team include those of a parent of a child with serious mental illness and leader in a
parent-run organization and of a child psychiatrist who is the co-developer of the CASII, a CASII trainer, and has
extensive experience in systems of care and wraparound.
MODERATOR/PRESENTER: Robert Klaehn, M.D., Medical Director, Division of Developmental Disabilities,
Arizona Department of Economic Security, Phoenix, AZ
Toni Donnelly, Director of Training and Innovation, Family Involvement Center, Phoenix, AZ
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