Wisconsin child welfare caseworkers are stressed and struggle to meet complex demands.
With the right tool, your agency can help reduce caseworker burnout and enable more time to dedicate to Family Finding.
The Challenge
The pandemic quickly led to overwhelming caseworker stress and made the need for Family Finding and achieving permanency more important than ever. To find a child's forever home, caseworkers need all the information, but it gets buried during the lifecycle of a case.
The Solution
Traverse®—a document management, forms management, and mobility software purpose-built for human services agencies—surfaces the right information at the right time to make sure caseworkers don't miss even the smallest piece of information. It also eases the administrative burden on caseworkers so they can spend more quality time with families and taking care of themselves.
Understand how mobile tools should be designed to support critical child welfare work.
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What's at Stake?
Wisconsin’s child welfare system feels the ongoing effects of the pandemic. Increasing caseloads, overwhelming paperwork, and complex cases impact caseworkers’ efficiency,limits quality time spent with families, and impacts your agency’s ability to meet its mission.
The benefits of innovating now outweigh the risks.
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How does Northwoods help?
Traverse identifies people and positive supports in a case, presents major life events, and uncovers hidden information to help achieve permanency. The software was designed to help child welfarecaseworkers easily collect, retrieve, and share content from anywhere, anytime.
Social workers can collect and access critical case history across all child welfare units.
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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. Reducing the administrative burden lessens caseworker burnout. The web-based software has a user-friendly interface and requires minimal IT support.
Anticipated Outcomes
Northwoods’ experience in delivering child welfare solutions enables our customers to realize return on investment in as early as 12 months.
Uncover supports in a child’s or youth’s history to meet permanency goals
Lessen burnout, anxiety, stress, and other burdens placed on social workers by ineffective tools and processes
Reduce costs related to foster care, mileage, turnover
Repurpose caseworker time to do high-value work to reduce trauma
Surface hidden information to enable informed, confident decisions about child safety
What's the Value of Traverse in Child Welfare?
Frontline workers, supervisors, directors, and commissioners share their agency's time savings, benefits, and ROI.
One secure application for managing forms and paperwork is helping workers save time and focus on serving the community.
ABOUT TRAVERSE
Traverse empowers child welfare and adult & aging to make informed, confident decisions about well-being and safety. Caseworkers can collect, view, and share case content and evidence from anywhere without duplicative or additional work, empowering them to do more high-value work with families to reduce trauma.
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Request a personalized demo to learn how Traverse can help your agency maximize efficiency, effectiveness, and outcomes.
