Case Manager as a Leader in Providing Social Support for Families and Children

Case management as a new model started in Lithuania in 2018 after changes in the Law on the Fundamentals of the Protection of the Rights of Child. According to Lithuanian legal documents case management is the organization and provision of comprehensive social support to the child and his/her representatives, coordinated by the case manager in order to help overcoming social difficulties, the successful resolution of which would prevent possible violations of child’s rights. Theoretical definitions of case management emphasize that it is a client cantered model, and case managers exercise many functions, roles, apply various methods in order to lead a case management process successfully. In this process case managers face many occasions to take leadership position. The goal of the presentation is to find out possible interconnections between case management and leadership