The CAN Liaison and Specialist Network

The goal of the CAN Liaison and Specialist peer-to-peer network is to identify and support state and community-based partners as they share the CAN mission and its technology. CAN Liaisons and Specialists are leaders across the nation who have agreed to spearhead CAN initiatives in their community, state or region. They represent CAN in the state and communities and act as a liaison between local participants and the national CAN program.

What are the qualities needed to become a CAN Liaison or Specialist?

• Someone with general interest and affinity to CAN program goals
• Someone who is familiar with the business processes of the CAN program including agency participation, user registration, suite of tools including client record input and accessing resources to support the use of the CAN system in an agency
• Someone who is a present employee or volunteer with a CAN participating agency
• Someone who has an advanced understanding of the “how-to” and “whys” of Client Registry, Resource Database, Export Wizard and general CAN suite of tools

What is the role of a CAN Liaison or Specialist?

• Identifying potential needs for CAN in their state or community to support local response and recovery efforts
• To assist the state or community by sharing the suite of tools in CAN
• Facilitating new agency registration and assisting new user registrations
• Provide CAN Orientation presentations on a wide range of CAN topic areas such as :review of the history of CAN, current programs and partners, suite of tools, review and basic planning for the of CAN

CAN Specialists also:

• Act as the point person for their state and communities for exports, resource database, events calendar and forums
• Provide Client Registry training to their agency or other community agencies