Inih Effiong earned Daggers 1-0 win at Meadow Park with a 12th-minute header and even saw a penalty saved before the break.
It was a second National League success in five outings for new boss Strevens, after a last-gasp triumph at lowly Torquay, and he now wants to give home fans something to cheer at Victoria Road.
“Can we back that up now, can we do that Monday?” he told the club website.
“That’s the next challenge, to try and recover the best we can and try and back it up on Monday.
“Hopefully that’s what we’re going to do. I want to try and get that win at home as well for the fans.
“The support was brilliant again, amazing. So happy to see people so pleased at the end of the game, it’s the feeling I want and I want the boys to see that and want to try and get it more and more.”
Strevens was able to recall club captain Angelo Balanta and experienced goalkeeper Elliot Justham, following recent injury problems, and praised the impact the duo had on the matchday squad.
“Striz [Josh Strizovic] has done brilliantly. I spoke to him about that in the week and said I’m so pleased we give him the opportunity to step in when Els was injured,” he added.
“He took it with both hands, he’s been fantastic and was even fantastic talking about making the change.
“He knows how important it is, it’s not just as a goalkeeper but how he is as a personality, he’s an infectious character Els and he was the one driving them to get that clean sheet.
“I knew he was a good goalkeeper from the outside looking in from coming up against him, but his presence in and around the boys has been vital this last week.
“And Angelo being back out there with the boys, we know the quality he has. I think I’ve only ever within games man-marked one person in this league and that was Angelo!
“He’s got that little bit of extra quality and it’s my job now to keep him as fit as we can so he can be more available for us.
“Them two coming back I’m talking about, but the boys had the disappointing day against Dorking, the ones who performed today, can take huge credit because they’ve taken a negative and turned it into a positive and we will go away really pleased with what we’ve seen.”
The win left Daggers six points off the play-off places with five games left, but Strevens says he is more focused on enjoying matches, rather than fixating on the league table.
“My feeling and talking to the boys about it is just enjoying it and seeing the way it takes us,” he said.
“How we all felt after Gateshead and Dorking, ‘definitely not going to make it now’, just because we won [on Friday] doesn’t mean all of a sudden you are.
“We’ve just got to try and consistently perform the way we did today, with and without the ball.
“The way the group worked without the ball led to the chances they created.
“They were a different type of test today, Boreham Wood, to what we faced against Dorking and Gateshead, the way they played, but I said to them if you can deal with balls into your box the way you did against Boreham Wood, you can deal with them against anyone.”
Promotion hopefuls Chesterfield saw a seven-match unbeaten run ended by York City on Friday and sit in fourth place, three points behind Woking in the race for automatic promotion.
Former Daggers striker Paul McCallum has netted four times in 14 appearances since joining in February, while Joe Quigley – another ex-Dagger – has seven goals in 41 games this season.
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