- Credit Hours: 6 Hours
- Author: Rand Kannenberg
- Price: $78.00
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Describe the role of clinical case management in substance abuse treatment for offender populations, including its core functions of assessment, planning, referral, coordination, and advocacy.
- Explain the legal mandates, including the Americans with Disabilities Act, that support the provision of case management services in correctional settings.
- Distinguish between the roles of case managers, social workers, and therapists in providing services to offenders with substance use disorders.
- Identify common sources of resistance to implementing case management in criminal justice and substance abuse treatment settings and describe strategies for overcoming them.
- Apply case management principles to conduct disability resource evaluations and monitor psychological problems in offender populations.
- Describe the historical evolution of case management from institutional settings to community-based substance abuse treatment programs.
- Analyze how effective clinical case management improves treatment outcomes and reduces recidivism for substance-abusing offenders.
- Develop case management plans that coordinate services across criminal justice, mental health, and substance abuse treatment systems.
- Outline the qualifications, training, and competencies required for effective clinical case management with offender populations.
Package Contents
Course Details
Course Description: The Offender and Addiction – Clinical Case Management covers case management concepts and services as they apply to addictions and corrections, and is designed for criminal justice and counseling professionals. Participants will explore definitions and philosophies of case management, ethical standards for case managers, and strategies for making sound behavioral health referrals while avoiding negligent ones. The course also addresses multicultural sensitivity, professional ethics, and client satisfaction in the context of working with offenders and addiction. It is taught by Rand L. Kannenberg, a Licensed Addiction Counselor and Certified Case Manager with decades of experience in correctional settings and substance abuse treatment across the United States and internationally.
Date: Ongoing
Distance Learning Method: Asynchronous Reading
Target Audience: Social Workers, Substance Abuse Counselors, Criminal Justice Professionals
Refund Policy: If you request a refund within 30 days of placing your order (and prior to submitting any exams / completing any courses) we will gladly issue a refund of your money, less the processing fee and handling charge.
Course Interactivity: None
Posttest Requirements: Must score 80% or better to pass. Tests can be taken multiple times to obtain passing score.
Course Completion Requirements: Passing score on posttest. Submission of course evaluation. Course date of completion is recorded at this point.
Certificate of Completion: Issued when course is completed, available for download in Student Center
System Requirements: Internet access
About the Instructor
Rand L. Kannenberg
RAND L. KANNENBERG is a Licensed Addiction Counselor, a Certified Case Manager, and a Certified Clinical Sociologist as well as an approved education provider by both NBCC and NAADAC. Kannenberg, creator of Resocial Group TM: "A Group Treatment Curriculum for Adults with Antisocial Behavior and Substance Abuse," has been executive director of Criminal Justice Addiction Services in Lakewood, Colorado since 1995, and has provided substance abuse and corrections advanced level training and continuing education workshops in 40 states, Italy, Puerto Rico and South Africa. He also has a private clinical practice specializing in forensic drug and alcohol adult assessments.
Kannenberg graduated from the state department of corrections basic training academy and completed the extended prison based training program. He has worked in two correctional facilities, a halfway house, a day reporting center and at a treatment center. He is a credentialed consultant with physicians in emergency departments and on the medical units at several local hospitals. He completed his graduate program in 1984 and has been treating amphetamine and amphetamine-like substance use disorders regularly since 1999. He has been a featured speaker or trainer at nearly 300 state, regional, national, and international workshops or conferences. Kannenberg, distinguished career award nominee and Public Health Champion of the Year recipient, is author of Sociotherapy for Sociopaths TM (2003) and Case Management Handbook for Clinicians (2004).
Approved and Widely Recognized
CEU Matrix is approved by the following national and state accreditation boards:
CEU Matrix is approved with the following state boards:
Arkansas (ASACB), California (CCAPP #OS-07-394-0222), California (CADTP #250), Connecticut (#0115-5202), Delaware (DCB #37), Florida (FCB #5141-A), Georgia (ADACBGA #2026-4-003), Illinois (IAODAPCA #19345), Kentucky, Louisiana (LA ADRA #E026), Michigan (MCBAP), Missouri (Missouri CB #183), New Mexico (NMCBBHP #2046), North Carolina (NCSAPPB), Ohio (OCDP #50-19236), Oklahoma (OBLADS #20260153), Texas (TCB #1758-07)
Provider Statement:
CEU Matrix, provider #2726, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 07/23/2026-07/23/2027.