California child welfare caseworkers are struggling to meet complex demands

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Child Welfare Software: Finding a Forever Home

Surface the right information at the right time to help child welfare caseworkers find a child's forever home.

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Child Welfare Call to Action: Don't Wait to Innovate

The idea of technology innovation can be exciting and overwhelming in child welfare.

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Child Welfare Agencies Can't Live Without Traverse. Here's Why.

Hear from frontline workers, supervisors, and directors across the country about how their agencies use Traverse.

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Social Work Burnout

What can your agency do about social work burnout?

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5 Hurdles Blocking Social Worker Productivity

How to overcome five common productivity hurdles with a system of engagement.

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The Cost of Doing Nothing: How Inaction Can Hurt Human Services

There's perceived risk in choosing to spend money on technology. But the risk and cost of doing nothing may be even greater.

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Traverse Overview

Traverse helps social workers and caseworkers collect, view, and share case information from anywhere, at any time.

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Connecting the Dots: How Traverse Can Positively Impact a Child’s Life

6 ways Traverse can help California agencies produce family-centered outcomes.

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Our Mission

Hear from real Northwoodians about our mission and dedication to helping human services agencies.

What outcomes can I expect?

Traverse surfaces critical information to help caseworkers manage complex cases and agencies meet mandates and goals for safety and permanency.

Anticipated Outcomes

Northwoods’ experience in delivering child welfare solutions enables our customers to realize return on investment in as early as 12 months. Caseworkers immediately see value and save two hours per day.

Identify possible caregivers and positive supports
Find/share information to support youth in their communities
Reduce foster care length of stay and related costs
Provide all caseworkers access to forms when working remotely
Repurpose caseworker time to do high-value work to prevent further trauma
Uncover hidden or buried information to support making confident decisions
Reduce costs for storage, mileage, and overtime
Lessen burnout, anxiety, stress, and other burdens placed on caseworkers by ineffective tools and processes

"Traverse has increased our ability to process documents in the field and has allowed our staff to locate pertinent documents with ease. Traverse is a valuable tool that enhances our ability to assist families in providing safe, healthy, and nurturing homes to the children of Yuba County. "

— Tony Gordon, Deputy Director, Yuba County Health and Human Services