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Training & Certification
In order to be a CANS-NY assessor for the health home program, a provider must attend a training (online or in-person) and complete a certification exam with a minimum reliability score of 0.70 (online). Supervisors should maintain a reliability score of 0.80.
- Navigating the Training Site
- If you can not find your agency in the drop down menu when creating an account, please contact support@tcomtraining.com
- Please see the FAQs and this FAQ Sheet!
- How To – Viewing CANS-NY Certification Quiz and Practice Test Answers
- How to Find and Download/Print Your Training Attendance and Certification Certificates
- How to Guide – Accessing Supplemental Course Material
- How to Find Your Live Training
- To register for an in-person training:
- On the home page, view the Calendar and choose “New York” as the Category
- Click on the course with the date that works best for you
- Click “Details” to view the training’s registration page and register
CANS-NY Manuals
- CANS-NY for Infants and Children Ages 0 to 5: Manual
- CANS-NY for Children and Youth Ages 6 to 21: Manual
Tip Sheets
- TCOM Online Training Certification Tips
- CANS-NY User Tip Sheet
- Key Principles:
- Assessing Needs and Strengths with Action Levels
- Ratings Describe the Individual, Not the Individual in Care
- Developmentally Appropriate Rating (interactive version on training site)
- Rating the “What”, Not the “Why” (interactive version on training site)
- Rating Within the 30-Day Window (interactive version on training site)
- Caregiver Strengths & Needs (interactive version on training site)
- Strengths Based Care Planning
- Care Planning Worksheet
CANS-NY Webinars
NYS DOH Resources
- Children’s Health Home Program Website
- Guidance on CANS-NY Algorithms for Health Home PMPM Fees and Documentation
- DOH Children’s Health Home Program CANS-NY Guidance & Resources Page
- How to sign up for the NYS DOH HHSC List Serv:
- To subscribe, send an email addressed to listserv@listserv.health.state.ny.us. In the body of the message, type:
- SUBSCRIBE HHOMES-L YourFirstName YourLastName
- Example: If your name was “John Doe”, you would type:
- SUBSCRIBE HHOMES-L John Doe
- To subscribe, send an email addressed to listserv@listserv.health.state.ny.us. In the body of the message, type: