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Case Workers in Family Services Benefit from Social Services Software

Posted by Mandy Frary on Oct 9, 2022 3:37:00 PM

For those working in child services, an understanding of family situations is vital in being able to help improve child welfare. Fortunately for those agencies, utilizing the right social services software can help streamline processes and effectively “humanize” the various situations.

The goal is to always be improving child welfare through various services, responses and interventions, and with the right social services software on your side, the tasks can become easier to track and perhaps even more simple.

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Topics: Child Welfare, Foster Care, human services, social services software, social workers

How the Right Social Services Software Can Improve the Adoption Process

Posted by Mandy Frary on Aug 26, 2022 1:30:00 AM

With over 400,000 children in foster care and over 100,000 adoptable children in the United States, we are passionate about improving the adoption process with the right social services software. The length of the adoption process can vary by state but having the right software in place can help improve the process for all parties involved.

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Topics: Adoption, case management software, nonprofit software solutions, human services, case load, social services software

3 Trends in Human Services That will Change the Face of the Field

Posted by GVT Admin on Aug 11, 2022 10:45:00 AM

The field of human services, like any other, is constantly evolving. As a result of changing social needs and technological advancements, new trends will emerge. This means that in order to meet the needs of your community, your organization must change the way services are delivered.

You and your team must be up to date on the latest technologies and how they affect the clients and the community you serve. However, how can organizations overcome the challenges posed by change? Innovation can involve both large and subtle changes, and it can occur instantly or gradually in smaller departments or throughout the entire human service industry. Take a look at these human service trends.

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Topics: Social Services Industry News, human services

The Death of Trust...Victim Services

Posted by GVT Admin on Mar 3, 2021 12:30:00 PM

We are taught as children that we can trust our parents, our teachers, our religious leaders, the police, the mayor, and the President of the United States. It is their duty to care for us, to mean us well, and to do only good. We can trust them; until we can’t.

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Topics: Veterans Issues, caseworkers, human services, Family and Child Welfare, Victim Services

Solving the Difficulties of Refugee Databases

Posted by Dave Becker on Oct 22, 2019 8:18:00 AM

Refugees create unique issues for human services organizations, especially when it comes to creating and maintaining an accurate database to manage the care they need. One of the main things you find with onboarding the refugees into your database is the difficult nature of getting accurate data. It is hard to track that information and store that information and then to get your database to talk to other databases that data.

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Topics: nonprofit software solutions, human services, human services software, immigration, FAMCare Team Blog's

An Ongoing Social Work Hackathon

Posted by GVT Admin on Sep 2, 2019 9:37:00 AM

Social workers across the country often ask us how we create the software products that have become the standard for the industry. The answer is…collaboration. Global Vision Technology designers and engineers are constantly collaborating with social work professionals to design and redesign the FAMCare suite of products now used by thousands of social workers in hundreds of diverse agencies. We are conducting an ongoing social work hackathon.

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Topics: Global Vision Technologies, FAMCare Tips and Tools, FAMCare, caseworkers, human services, social services software, social services, social workers

Create Efficient Collaboration with the Right Government Software Solutions

Posted by GVT Admin on Jul 8, 2019 7:25:00 AM

We are in an unprecedented stretch of strong economic conditions where there are more jobs than job applicants. Yet, there are still many children and families who are suffering and in need of government agency help. So many, in fact, that human services caseworkers often still feel overwhelmed by heavy caseloads and the accompanying paperwork.

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Topics: Government, Case Studies, case management workflow, case management software, human services, social services software, social services, human services software

Crisis at the Border: No Villains,  Many Victims

Posted by GVT Admin on Jun 28, 2019 9:46:14 AM

Arrested in January 2018 for illegally harboring and transporting undocumented immigrants, Dr. Scott Warren, a volunteer with No More Deaths (also known as No Más Muertes), stood trial on three felony counts in early June. He faced 20 years in prison for his efforts to provide food, water and other essential items to migrants crossing the Sonoran Desert near Ajo, Arizona, an area of the border that is considered particularly dangerous. About 250 migrants die there each year. On June 11, 2019, a Tucson jury, with an 8 to 4 vote, failed to convict Dr. Warren.

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Topics: Government, Homeless & Food Pantry, human services, immigration

Public Health Social Workers Speak Out

Posted by GVT Admin on May 14, 2019 3:31:29 PM

Our recent blog on the true cost of healthcare ignited a robust response from social workers who specialize in public health. This relatively new but growing social work specialty stresses a socio-epidemiological approach to the prevention and management of the chronic diseases that plague our society.

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Topics: human services, social services, social workers, public health, healthcare

How Human Services Software Improved Care for Residential Youth in St. Louis

Posted by Dave Becker on Apr 10, 2019 3:31:53 PM

I have seen first hand how having the right human services software can really make a difference in kids’ lives. How kids that are in the system, for whatever reason, can get better treatment, better understanding and a chance to just be kids.

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Topics: Child Welfare, Case Studies, FAMCare Tips and Tools, How Clients Use FAMCare, mental health, HIPAA Compliant, human services, human services software, FAMCare Team Blog's

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