Polaris-CANS

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Polaris CANS is a cost-effective solution for administering the Child & Adolescent Needs & Strengths (CANS) assessment, maximizing benefits from CANS data, providing training and managing staff certification, and ensuring your data is secure yet accessible to authorized users.

A Complete Solution. Includes Web-based assessments, reports, secure and HIPAA-compliant data management, online training and implementation support.

The Full CANS and More. Polaris CANS assessments include the full version of the CANS, plus a handful of other items useful for prediction of outcomes.

Value for everyone in your organization:

✔ Clinicians get tremendous value from consumer-friendly, assessment reports that provide real-time data in graph form.

✔ Admin staff are freed from data entry chores.

✔Supervisors have excellent reporting tools that assist in managing CANS administrations and support staff supervision.

✔Managers and administrators have a rich dataset and reporting/analysis tools to evaluate case- and program-level care.

What does Polaris-CANS include?

✔ The full CANS assessments

✔ CANS manual integrated and available at a click

✔ Graphical reports showing CANS ratings, summaries and progress over time

✔ Online reporting/analysis tools

✔ Training when you need it

✔ Optional self-assessment for youth and caregivers that contains strength-based content, and supports the use of the Child and Adolescent Service System Program (CASSP) principles.

✔ Automated scoring, printable certificates, staff management module

✔ Export data to your database or analysis software

The Story Behind the Product

The CANS assessment, designed by Dr. John Lyons, is used in more than 30 states across the country. Polaris-CANS includes a full version of the CANS assessment, along with additional empirical indicators to support clinical treatment service planning for mentally ill children and adolescents.

For staff, Polaris-CANS can reduce the amount of time spent in training and completing paperwork with its online platform for the initial certification and ongoing assessment. CANS can be used to augment and in some cases, replace existing psychosocial assessment and the triage of clients. Flexible pricing makes it affordable for the smallest of organizations.

Pricing for Polaris-CANS

Core: Web assessment, clinical reports, basic aggregate reports, data management - $8 per youth

Training: Stand-alone online training - $49 per staff member trained

Full: Core plus training - 25% off

Paper/Fax: Paper form processing add-on to Core or Full - $.50 per form


Contact us at moreinfo@polarishealth.com to learn more about the benefits you will see by using Polaris-CANS.

We are committed to helping you succeed in improving behavioral health outcomes for the children and adolescents you serve.

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