COMPASS-EZ™

 A Self-assessment Tool for Behavioral Health Programs

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COMPASS-EZ™ is designed to help individual programs organize a baseline self-assessment of recovery-oriented complexity (co-occurring) capability as the first step in a continuous quality improvement process in which the program designs an action plan to make progress. COMPASS-EZ™ is designed to help programs have a consistent method for measuring progress and continue the learning and change process by repeating the self-assessment at regular intervals. Most broadly, COMPASS-EZ™ is designed to be used globally by systems in transformation. All programs in the system can work in partnership, with each program using a shared process to make progress toward the collective vision of recovery-oriented complexity (co-occurring) capability across the whole system.

COMPASS-EZ™ is organized by sections that address aspects of a complexity (co-occurring) capable program’s design:

• Program Philosophy
• Program Policies
• Quality Improvement and Data
• Access
• Screening and Identification
• Recovery-oriented Integrated Assessment
• Integrated Person-centered Planning
• Integrated Treatment/Recovery Programming
• Integrated Treatment/Recovery Relationships
• Integrated Treatment/Recovery Program Policies
• Psychopharmacology
• Integrated Discharge/Transition Planning
• Program Collaboration and Partnership
• General Staff Competencies and Training
• Specific Staff Competencies

COMPASS-EZ™ is designed to be helpful to a vast array of programs:

• Mental health settings, including inpatient, outpatient, and other levels of care
• Addiction settings, including residential, outpatient, and other levels of care
• Adult and Older Adult services
• Child and Adolescent services
• Supportive services settings, such as homeless shelters, correctional settings, child welfare settings
• Other service settings, such as primary care programs

COMPASS-EZ™ is designed to produce a number of important organizational outcomes. COMPASS-EZ™ helps programs, agencies and systems:

• Communicate a common language and understanding of recovery-oriented complexity (co-occurring) capable services for individuals and families with complex needs.
• Understand the program baseline of recovery-oriented complexity (co-occurring) capability so that there is an organized and rational foundation for a change process toward this vision.
• Provide a common tool and shared process that can be used in any system for an array of diverse programs working collectively on complexity (co-occurring) capability development.
• Create a continuous quality-improvement framework regarding complexity (co-occurring) capability development for all types of programs in any system of care that serves individuals and families with complex lives.

Check out this PDF for a demo of Compass-EZ™.

HOW TO PURCHASE

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