EVIDENCE-BASED CASE MANAGEMENT (CM) & CARE COORDINATION - "CM DAYS"
MASTERCLASSES + OPTIONAL CERTIFICATION
October 21 - 23, 2025
"CM Days" is 3 Days of interactive workshops where you will learn the proven 3-Pillar system for instituting case management capacity in-house. Learn from the team that has taught over 70 accomplished organizations how.
Build Sustainable In-House Capacity for Durable Client Outcomes
Forward-thinking organizations don’t just train - they build systems. Our masterclasses together create a system to equip teams with the skills, structure, and support to deliver consistent, evidence-based results across client engagement, resource coordination, and family involvement.
Why a System Approach Is Smarter
The research says training alone isn’t enough. Agencies need replicable frameworks and ongoing support that help staff retain and build on what they’ve learned. This system empowers professionals to apply proven methods - without starting from scratch.
What You Can Expect
Delivered in expert-led sessions, this series teaches a complete, sustainable case management system based on 3-Pillars.
3 Days. 3 Focus Areas. One replicable system.
| Day |
Focus |
Outcome |
| Oct. 21 (Pillar-1) |
Individual Engagement |
MI-based skills for durable “contact moments” regardless of domain |
| Oct. 22 (Pillar-2) |
Resource Coordination |
Collaborative strategies and warm hand-offs in coordinating care |
| Oct. 23 (Pillar-3) |
Family Engagement |
Proven methods like Family Group Decision-Making, Teaming and Conferencing |
Learning Objectives
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Client Engagement: Use MI techniques to foster trust and drive change
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Skill Acquisition & Retention: Reinforce learning through evidence-based practice
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Sustainable Implementation: Build systems that reduce reliance on external trainers
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Resource Coordination: Identify and connect clients to essential services
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Family Involvement: Engage families to strengthen community outcomes
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Evidence-Based Practice: Apply proven frameworks for lasting impact
Why Attend?
Say goodbye to fragmented training. Say hello to a unified, scalable system.
- Flexible choice of 1, 2, or all 3 days
- Expert coaching + optional certification
- Grow together. Team attendance encouraged - Success is a team sport!
Who Should Attend?
Managers, supervisors, internal agency trainers, program managers and professionals who collaboratively coordinate services with clients.
- Workers in mental and behavioral health, including substance abuse, developmental disabilities.
- Community & Family Services Agencies
- Social Workers & Substance Abuse Counselors
- Adult and Juvenile Case Managers, Supervisors and Managers
- Probation Officers, Supervisors and Managers
- Housing, Homelessness Programs & Resident Populations Managers
- Youth Services Programs
- Veteran Services Programs
- Workforce Specialist
- Nursing Care Professionals
- DWI Court Administrators
- Agency Trainers, among others.
Say goodbye to fragmented training. Say hello to a unified, scalable system.
Register now to build lasting systems ...
Choose Individual Days from below, Or Bundle Days
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Oct. 21st
Evidence Based Pathways: Core Skills for Individual Engagement & Motivation in Case Management
Program Outline
This program has been developed as formal education for client-facing professionals in human, social and justice services fields. It teaches skills in the common elements of evidence-based approaches that practitioners must prioritize for helping clients they serve to acquire or strengthen their ability to perform critical life functions they may have “lost”. These skills are essential in any life domain for helping recipients of services to incrementally improve versus “punishing” or "rehabilitating".
Registration
- <3: $195 ea.
- 4+: $150 ea.
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Oct. 22nd
Evidence Based Pathways: Strength-Centered Approaches for Case Managment & Care Coordination
Program Outline
Effective case management is a process of collaboratively assessing, planning, facilitating, and advocating for options and services for efficiently meeting clients' individual needs. Adopting evidence-based and strength-centered approaches is a commitment to professionalism, quality care and effective client services in the face of large caseloads, and often limited resources. This program will help close the gap.
Registration
- <3: $195 ea.
- 4+: $150 ea.
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Oct. 23rd
Evidence-Based Pathways for Family Engagement in Community
Program Outline
Learn to engage families in community.
Imagine you have an entire team to assist you as you provide quality interventions to the individuals and families you serve. Also, consider what it would be like if you could decrease the level of resistance, you experience as you provide quality intervention. That is what Family Group Decision-Making, Teaming and Conferencing provide.
Registration
- <3: $195 ea.
- 4+: $150 ea.
LEARN DETAILS & REGISTER
* Optional - Get credentialed as a Certified Evidence Based Practitioner (CEBP)
Register 4 for the price of 3!!
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Reviews
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L. Novacek, The Hospitality Project
I truly do appreciate the instructor and his enthusiasm. I can only imagine how difficult it must be to have to be "up" and enthusastic for such a long training especially when there are so many people who are attending who are non-responsive or aren't on camera. His level of expertise and knowledge of this topic is wonderful. I think that this training has been a good investment of my time (and my agency's money).
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Annonymous
Although the training was done online via Zoom, it was very interactive and engaging. The presenter did an amazing job of keeping the pace of the training and having everyone involved, his definition/explanations of the techniques we learned was clear and helpful. I really enjoyed the breakout rooms/sessions, it was nice to be able to still interact with each other online.
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S. Smuda, Washoe TANF
I was instantly invigorated. I remembered how much I like this training. Sad to say I've not really applied it but I will now! What I liked best was 1. Remember how much I really like this tool. And 2. Extremely pleasantly surprised we got to break out in groups.
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S. Weatherall, Grand Ronde Headstart
Even though I get nervous I really liked the interactive element and how it seemed very conversational, not just someone preaching to us and expecting us to just retain a bunch of information and acronyms. I also liked the opportunity to practice with real things that are going on in our own lives
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Annonymous
Our facilitator was great and friendly. It created a more casual approach for our participation as well to learn the information. The layout of both days was easy, and it was great to not just have a presentation/and or read off our handouts.
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J. Roberts, Eckerd
The fact that the instructor obviously had applied these skills in real world settings made the training more meaningful.
I liked his use of the breakout rooms and found it definitely kept me more engaged.
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Annonymous
I really enjoyed the presenter modeling before sending us into activity. The group sessions and facilitators' pace and information was all
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C. Komar, The Children's Cabinet
The instructor was focused, the material was presented in a way that was easy to understand and there were applicable examples. I can't imagine a better training!
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Annonymous
“I liked that the information was tactical, action-oriented, and given from the perspective of organizational development. I liked that we were provided with specific tools (questionnaires and assessments) to utilize with our agencies. I am in strong agreement that we need to focus on internal processes and on staff outcomes as part of an evidence-based approach and I think it's great that the workshop highlighted this throughout “
Short-term solutions compound issues, increase caseloads, run up expenses, and ultimately harms everyone in the process - much like applying a band-aid over a gaping bullet wound!
But, it doesn't have to be this way. There's a better solution which remind us to first remove the bullet and then stop the bleeding through the use of approaches that are skillfully implemented.
Evidence-Based "PATHWAYS" Changed This Organization's Future
After one of our community action partnerships attended EB "PATHWAYS", the executive teams' eyes were opened to the future of her organization.
The CEO, “dragged” out of retirement to lead the company, saw how like many well meaning agencies, her staff seemed to get bogged down, and not getting to the source of the problems.
Attending the evidence-based "PATHWAYS" program helped her redirect her staff's passionate motivations with effective practices.
"Our job is NOT to take over people’s lives in the name of "helping" them. It is to partner with clients in an assistive way. Its actually less work per client, and more time to do even more!"
With this newfound triggered revelation, there's now less staff stress and more sustained client success. Practitioners now have a blueprint for their role and teaching methods.
Leadership at the organization now spends time instituting approaches taught by the evidence-based conference.
But the transformational experience of the team is not exclusive to them. You too can share in the benefit.
About EB "PATHWAYS" — Online Digital Summit For Practitioners
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Attack The Cause, Not The Symptoms
Client caseloads will increase and become more complex with challenging "hard-to-serve" conditions compounding work being done. Frequently well-meaning practitioners and their agencies apply unproven methods to expeditiously move their clients along.
Unfortunately, with that kind of support clients will NOT be able to succeed on their own during 99.9% of the time they are away from the practitioner. Consequently, they will return with bigger more entrenched conditions. The practitioner must serve their current client load and the returning ones!
Short-term solutions compound issues, increase caseloads, run up expenses, and ultimately harms everyone in the process - much like applying a band-aid over a gaping bullet wound!
But, it doesn't have to be this way. There's a better solution which reminds us to first remove the bullet and then stop the bleeding through the use of approaches that are skillfully implemented.
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Learning Goals & Objectives
Learning Goals & Objectives
Participants in the program will receive formal education in how to help their clients regain or strengthen their ability to perform critical life functions necessary to thrive in any life domain and ultimately be skillful in the application of evidence based and strength centered approaches. Program participants are in a position to;
- Learn how to plan for continued personal and professional development following formal education. Going beyond just formal degrees and licenses, and learn what to do to insure continued professional development.
- Get a clearer more advanced understanding of “Evidence based” practice, programs, and interventions - beyond the typical introductory and moderate definitions. Learn what kinds there are, their meaning, what they are for, why they are important, how they work and fit, and how you might apply them, etc.
- Distinguish between being evidence-based and being intuitive. Learn to move toward recognizing and making use of that which is intuitive in practice.
- Learn to test and discover the value of intuitive practice in determining when and how to use it as practice-based evidence. Learn to make use of intuition one possesses and move those activities toward becoming evidence-based
- Evaluate and rate own practice for fidelity and efficacy
Develop a plan to improve own practice using the results of a self-evaluation. Make use of the plan developed to improve practice.
- Learn the various EBP's and their uses in all practice. Learn which are specific to your domain, and work to specialize in the use of one or more for your domain
- Gain fundamental working knowledge of 2 or more evidence-based approaches relevant to your specific domain, and how they fit together as part of the larger whole.
- Design and document practices in a manner that helps you adjust the fluid step-by-step logical process and demonstrate the development and adjustment of treatment/service plan in order to facilitate the recovery process. Practitioners must document the way that they practice and understand its purpose to evolve the plan from the beginning to the end, have it show up in a certain way that connects to the reason for the plan, its process and the adjustments for the plan to achieve the intended outcome.
- Path an annual training and development program for evidence-based practices to deepen knowledge of methods and of the theoretical background for the use of the approaches. Membership in a professional group to foster professional engagement and ongoing development.
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How "PATHWAYS" Improved This Organization
After one of our community action partnerships attended EB "PATHWAYS", the executive teams' eyes were opened to the future of her organization.
The CEO, “dragged” out of retirement to lead the company, saw how like many well-meaning agencies, her staff seemed to get bogged down, and not getting to the source of the problems.
Attending the evidence-based "PATHWAYS" program helped her redirect her staff's passionate motivations with effective practices.
"Our job is NOT to take over people’s lives in the name of "helping" them. It is to partner with clients in an assistive way. Its actually less work per client, and more time to do even more!"
With this newfound triggered revelation, there's now less staff stress and more sustained client success. Practitioners now have a blueprint for their role and teaching methods.
Leadership at the organization now spends time instituting approaches taught by the evidence-based conference.
But the transformational experience of the team is not exclusive to them. You too can share in the benefit.
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Transformation @ EB Pathways
Our job is to NOT take over people’s lives and do the work for them.
Effective empowerment comes from being "assistive" and collaboratively teaching and guiding. By applying proven approaches, clients embrace responsibility for what happens to them and thrive beyond us.
This is where the Evidence-Based "PATHWAYS" Workshops & Conference empowers practitioners to guide others.
Participants at the event will be in a position to learn proven skills and how to implement their powerful approaches.
- Practitioner satisfaction goes up.
- Caseloads are managed better.
- Teams' capacity increases allowing you and your team to do, and be more.
- Your organization is stronger with higher sustainable outcomes and profits.
These benefits flow directly to your clients.
- They achieve success often.
- Time spent with practitioners is highly regarded.
- They hold themselves accountable for their own success, and
- No-show rates go down.
With results like these, your organization increases stakeholder and funding support. You, your team, and your organization are positioned to help many more people. Transforming the life of one person is worth it, imagine when crowds of people are changed for the better!
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Faculty
Learn efficient approaches to evidence-based success from some of the best our field has to offer.
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Level Up - Certification And Credit
Professional Certification
Make your training hours really count by applying them toward certification at the event. Whether you’re a seasoned professional or just starting out, earning your Evidence-Based Professional certification can be an effective way to differentiate yourself in the market place - as an individual, organization or program.
Please sign-up for certification during your online registration checkout. If you prefer, check out your options online via the following link and sign-up. If attending the conference, please use the promo code CERT45 to apply your attendee discount. This discount applies to prospective conference attendees only, please.
View Professional Certification Options >>
CE Training Hours Credits
The conference, through Joyfields Institute also provides CE credit for the following professionals.
Social Workers & Counselors, Case Managers & Care Coordination Staff, Certified Evidence-Based Professionals, Licensed Alcohol & Drug Counselors, Substance Abuse Counselors, Professional Counselors among others. Please check with your licensing organization.
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Testimonials - From Past Participants & Faculty
Started in 2007, this conference has continually helped evidence-based professionals level up. Explore the words of past attendees.
"Thank you. Truly enjoyed it"
"The interaction opportunities. I enjoyed listening to other participants - allowed me to brainstorm and revisit how I interact with my clients in a better way"
"Knowledgeable instructors, workbook usage, and very specific layout of materials"
G. MCalla, Jackson, Behavioral Helath
"After working for 26 years in healthcare, this is the first time I attended a program that focuses on ME, not the patient. It was fabulous and will help me in my career and personal life greatly. THANK YOU"
K. Scorza, Seasons Center
"It has helped us with successful grant writing, building a donor base for fund development, and in recruiting and hiring qualified staff. It has benefited our organization by “clearly” signaling to those we work with what our values are and what is required if you collaborate with us. We have seen successful outcomes for our clients and their families. It is exciting to hear our staff now talk about success stories with their clients, interest in new training opportunities, and future programs and services related to emerging research and best practices."
J. Keene, San Mateo Probation
"I would say that helping to change the “culture” in our county about service delivery has been our most successful accomplishment. I would simply like to express my sincere appreciation to Joyfields Institute. With their help, we have raised the level of service to those we supervise by providing better rehabilitative opportunities, increasing public safety, and accountability to victims. it has allowed our department to set a standard in our county for policy development and program procurement. The expectation of all those we work with is that EBP must be a part of our collaboration. It has also raised our standing with our Board of Supervisors and Law Enforcement partners."
Level Up
Professional Certification
Make your training hours really count by applying them toward certification at the event. Whether you’re a seasoned professional or just starting out, earning your Evidence-Based Professional certification can be an effective way to differentiate yourself in the market place - as an individual, organization or program.
Please sign-up for certification during your online registration checkout to received the discounted rate.
This discount applies to prospective conference attendees only please.
View Professional Certification Options >>
Certificates & CE Training Hours Credits
EBP Society provides CE Training Hours credit for participants in our training. Our instructors also have various credentials. CE training hours credits are relevant to various professional fields including Social Workers & Counselors, Case Managers & Care Coordination Staff, Certified Evidence-Based Professionals, Licensed Alcohol & Drug Counselors, Substance Abuse Counselors, Professional Counselors among others.
Click here to view details online >>
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Access Pathways Anytime & Anywhere For 90 Days
Our Evidence-Based Pathways Masterclass is available as an On-Demand bundle with other resources you will need. Explore our on-demand option bundle.
- Masterclass On-Demand Course
- Expert Coaching
- Online Resources 24/7 Access
- Evidence-Based Resource Book
- Short Tutorial Webinar
- Certificate of Completion, and
- Professional Certification (included but not required)
Everything you need in one simple bundle!
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Private Pathways (Digital or Physical Onsite Training)
Our Evidence-Based Pathways is available as a private onsite training program for your team, department, and organization.
Customize our training for your organization, industry, and application.
- "The trainer helped me learn with real-life examples and anecdotes that I could relate and connect with."
- "This training truly helped me get a grasp of what evidence-based really means!"
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