To celebrate National Social Work Month, and in recognition of your impacts, we pulled together a few of the characteristics that people positively impacting our world embrace. and some helpful resources to keep fighting the good fight.
To elevate social workers in honor of National Social Work month, we are highlighting the focus and strengths of our clients to learn about their unique missions and impact on child welfare.
A client’s journey may begin with an application and end with a finalized adoption, but between those points, they interact with nearly every department at your agency. It’s important to create a consistent experience for your client and staff.
Requiring a field is a great way to ensure you get the information you need. It's also an easy way to annoy the person filling out a form. This is why you should be clear why and when a field is required to move on.
Here's a quick video which shows how to customize the public checklist and add individual templates to particular checklist sections to fit your agency's brand and voice.
A client’s journey may begin with an application and end with a finalized adoption, but between those points, they interact with nearly every department at your agency. It’s important to create a consistent experience for your client and staff.
With a stack of sticky notes, 30-60 minutes, and a few coworkers who work on similar tasks, you can create a clear diagram of your process and identify areas for improvement.
Requiring a field is a great way to ensure you get the information you need. It's also an easy way to annoy the person filling out a form. This is why you should be clear why and when a field is required to move on.
Though they may seem just boring (though essential) hoops to jump through, every form offers a chance to communicate to and build a relationship with your clients.
Still asking your families to email (or snail mail??) you documents? With SAM's public checklists, families can log in to their secure checklist and clearly see the tasks they need to complete during each part of a program.
Here's a quick video which shows how to customize the public checklist and add individual templates to particular checklist sections to fit your agency's brand and voice.
Your agency's mission should guide what you do, and what you do should be a clear reflection of your mission. Here's a fun team-building exercise that puts mission into action!
Implementing a new tool, training new staff, or trying to improve a process in your organization? Before you can explain or translate your existing workflow, you need to understand it, and diagraming is a great way to get a full picture of a process from start to finish.
Happy holidays from InReach Solutions! Thank you for an amazing year of innovation and inspiration - we look forward to many exciting projects and improvements in 2018.
For good or bad, adoption practices are often shaped by politics, be it local or international. But do our elected officials have a clear sense of the issues facing agencies, adoptive families and children waiting for placement?
Are you scaring potential clients away with terribly long or complicated forms? Learn how to break up a long form into manageable sections that save progress as you go and encourage completion.
No matter your type of organization, coming up with a list of values that drive you creates a specific criteria by which you can judge all of your agency’s decisions. Here's how you can do it!
Introducing the "DID YOU KNOW??" video series, in which Sara share's some SAM knowledge in 47 seconds or less. This week you'll learn how to add clickable buttons or icons that will take your SAM forms to the next level.
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