In a recent study, 81% of teenagers between the ages of thirteen and seventeen reported experiencing more severe stress. Schools are working harder than ever to support their students by integrating social-emotional learning (SEL) into curricula, expanding the availability of mental health services, and enabling teachers to identify the signs of a student's emotional distress and collaborate with social workers or counselors to promptly resolve particular cases.

Let's take a look at how you can support the students' complete social and mental well-being. 

Every day, social workers face the difficult task of managing a large number of case files. They must adhere to much stricter restrictions specific to the client relationship, in addition to the document management issues that almost all professionals face.
The situation has created some particularly difficult challenges for social workers. However, many of these issues can be resolved with the right case management tools.
Continue reading to learn about some of the most significant issues with document management.

The word hospice derives from the Latin, hospitum, meaning hospitality or place of rest and protection for the ill and weary. When people think about hospice care, they usually think of services being delivered in a patient's home or a freestanding hospice facility. Many are surprised to learn that the Hospice Medicare Benefit, a primary payer of hospice services, allows for hospice care in assisted living facilities (ALFs) and skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), the latter of which are commonly referred to as nursing homes.

 What exactly does "human services" mean? The solution appears to be simple. Despite the existence of professions such as counseling and social work since the nineteenth century, the field of human services as a whole did not become recognized as a topic of study until the 1960s.  

Learn about what human services are, who provides them, and what they entail.

Some people say that the devil is in the details, but some say details can be a devil to deal with!  According to Heather Lytle, Executive Director of F.A.C.T. (Family Advocacy and Community Training), an agency that mentors and empowers families to improve the quality of life and opportunities for children and adults with disabilities, “FAMCare was our first choice for case management because they understand that a small, family organization of 40 employees needs a software that focuses on the details without being too clinical.”  F.A.C.T. has been a FAMCare client since 2014 and chose them over several other products because of their ability to modify the software to fit F.A.C.T.’s needs, as well as the constant technical support that FAMCare offers its clients.

If you are a social service organization seeking to make a long-term impact, look for people who genuinely care about your cause. If you want the best long-term results for your non-profit, your main contributors should be committed in the long run.
It's unlikely that you'll come across someone who makes a significant contribution and then vanishes. This is because they care about your cause and want to see how they can make a difference through your organization.
Some of the difficult processes involved in capturing contributors' attention and developing a lasting connection with them are discussed in this blog.

Let's dive in!

We recently interviewed a retired social worker who spent her entire 30-year career working with addicts and alcoholics in residential treatment centers. We were seeking insight into the drug and alcohol abuse epidemic that seems to be getting worse every year. The insights she shared rang with understanding, empathy, and a double dose of common sense.

For high-quality case management systems, innovative thinking that promotes data-driven decisions at all organizational levels is required. A standard system that appears to be perfect from the outside may be unable to collect the data needed to support your specific cause or model of care. As a result, any organization that wishes to become more supportive and meaningful of the overall operations of human services should seek out the platform that best serves their cause. Here are some of the components of effective case management software.

You've probably noticed that there are many software alternatives available online if you manage client information for NGOs or human services organizations. If you don't know exactly what you're looking for, your software search will be extremely difficult. 

Let's look at  human service case management  and it's relationship with technology created for that industry.

Immigration is again a polarizing political debate with forgotten human beings caught in the middle. It doesn't matter which side of the debate you're on, the fact remains there are approximately 2 million undocumented immigrants younger than 24 existing in limbo in the United States. This largely innocent population is made more vulnerable by a divisive debate that intensifies the risk of deportation and reduces access to resources and support. Social workers consider it their principled responsibility to support the vulnerable at all levels in society, so parties on either side of the so-called “open borders” debate leave it to social workers to do what they can to help the people caught in the middle.