Question

Explain which type of direct-services intervention would be the most effective in the following scenario. Situation: Scott has struggled since losing both of his parents to cancer. He is on his own, living in a small, two-room bachelor apartment. His depression has caused him to get back in touch with the wrong crowd, and his drinking and drug use have increased. He feels as if his life is spiraling out of control, but he feels helpless to stop it on his own.

Answer 1

Demonstrate Incremental Benefits…All The Time.Taking on long-term projects is dangerous.  Sponsors change.  Markets change.  New technology comes out.  If you’re working on a multi-year transformation, you need to demonstrate incremental wins and have clear milestones.  You should assume you don’t have the next round of funding and build for success at each point.   I could say this is using an Agile approach, but it’s more than that. FOCUS, FOCUS, FOCUS. This one probably seems so obvious from the outside looking in, but it’s easy to get carried away with trying to take on too much.  In this particular case, we thought we had a 3-year timeframe to build and deliver on the vision.  We created a vision of care coordination that was really innovative, but we knew that no one had pulled it off before.  We then tried to coordinate care coordination and cost management which also hadn’t been done.  It would have been better to deliver one thing at a time and make ourselves incredibly sticky in that area.
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