COMPASS-EZ™

Introduction to the COMPASS-EZ™

COMPASS-EZ™ is designed to help programs develop and take ownership of the continuous quality improvement process and is a key tool in the successful implementation of the Comprehensive Continuous Integrated System of Care and is. COMPASS-EZ™ is designed to help individual programs organize a baseline self-assessment of recovery-oriented co-occurring capability as the first step in a continuous quality improvement process in which the program designs an action plan to make progress. COMPASS-EZ™ is designed to help programs have a consistent method for measuring progress, and continuing the learning and change process, by repeating the self-assessment at regular intervals. Most broadly, COMPASS-EZ™ is designed to be used globally by systems in transformation. All programs in the system can work in partnership, with each program using a shared process to make progress toward the collective vision of recovery-oriented co-occurring capability across the whole system.

COMPASS-EZ™ is organized by sections that address aspects of a co-occurring-capable program’s design:

Program Philosophy

  1. Program Policies
  2. Quality Improvement and Data
  3. Access
  4. Screening and Identification
  5. Recovery-Oriented Integrated Assessment
  6. Integrated Person-Centered Planning
  7. Integrated Treatment/Recovery Programming
  8. Integrated Treatment/Recovery Relationships
  9. Integrated Treatment/Recovery Program Policies
  10. Psychopharmacology
  11. Integrated Discharge/Transition Planning
  12. Program Collaboration and Partnership
  13. General Staff Competencies and Training
  14. Specific Staff Competencies

COMPASS-EZ is designed to be helpful to a vast array of programs:

  1. Mental health settings, including inpatient, outpatient, and other levels of care
  2. Addiction settings, including residential, outpatient, and other levels of care
  3. Adult and Older Adult services
  4. Child and Adolescent services
  5. Supportive services settings, such as homeless shelters, correctional settings, child welfare settings
  6. Other service settings, such as primary care programs

COMPASS-EZ™ is designed to produce a number of important organizational outcomes. COMPASS-EZ™ helps programs, agencies and systems:

  1. Communicate a common language and understanding of recovery-oriented co-occurring-capable services for individuals and families with complex needs.
  2. Understand the program baseline of recovery-oriented co-occurring capability so that there is an organized and rational foundation for a change process toward this vision.
  3. Provide a common tool and shared process that can be used in any system for an array of diverse programs working collectively on co-occurring-capability development.
  4. Create a continuous quality-improvement framework regarding co-occurring capability development for all types of programs in any system of care that serves individuals and families with complex lives.

Download the Demo of COMPASS-EZTM (Version 1.0)