C oordinated C ase M anagement Recommendations Accomplishments to Date Continuing Efforts S ummary of R ecommendations Increase system capacity to provide case management as defined herein throughout the Seattle-King County community. Initiate a paradigm shift among all service providers that recognizes case management as a long-term process that moves clients from engagement to their highest level of stability, and maintains the support needed to retain such stability. Advocate for funding for case management services that do not carry the condition that clients first espouse the intention to pursue and maintain abstinence. The Homeless Families Project operates out of the Department of Public Health and continues to provide case management for families seeking housing. While there has been a small amount of progress toward accomplishing the recommendations from 1996, there is still a lot that needs to be done.
Case management is a popular topic for discussion at the federal, state and local level.
Questions are being asked and funding alternatives are being discussed as well. Alternative funding sources need to be researched to allow expansion of already existing case management services and to develop more of the same in other areas of the county. Research on best practices in case management programs around the country needs to be pursued so that we can be competitive for federal grant funding possibilities. Work also needs to be done at the state level to allow for funding of services that do not require clients to commit to abstinence before being able to receive services and that allows clients to be dealt with at their highest level of stability.