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.
Sometimes it's more effective to visualize something graphically that it is to describe it with words. This idea can be for workflows, processes, to-do lists even. That is the essence of what flow charts do for you. As you probably know, flow charts explain a process clearly through symbols and text.
Did you know in the state of Arizona offers a child care tax credit? What does this mean? The Arizona Foster Care Credit offers a dollar-to-dollar reduction of your state income tax obligation for donations that qualify as a foster care charitable organization. The tax credit offers up to $500 for an individual or $1000 for a couple.
Are you naturally organized like Marie Kondo? Or are you unconsciously avoiding the piles of to-do’s that require sorting? Stop spreading yourself thin between all the chaos of forms and documents in SAM, or worse, piles paperwork and invest the time in getting your SAM system up to date with all you need in order to be more effective.
1. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy notifications are shown on every Public Form and SAM login screen for all users to agree to before login or submitting data in SAM.
2. Child Sibling Linking improvements.
3. Auto Actions improvements for greater consistency, including correction to defect found in Scheduled Actions.
4. Various Name configuration changes.
User Interface put into plain English: how you and your computer system interact. Toss in the word design and we’re talking adding style to our systems and everything digital we use to make our business go round. SAM makes sorting and making sense of it all so simple. Even better, SAM also makes it possible to add design elements to our forms that will give us all heart eyes.
Goals, plans, strategies all those things help us further our path in that direction. More times than not, reality sets in and deadlines pile up, new projects are acquired, and clients still take priority. Before you know it, you’ve got a forest fire with nothing but a water cooler near your desk. While not all “fires” can be planned for, there are a few things you can do to have your work be a little more “flame retardant”.
During the holidays, we're all making lists. Greeting card lists, cookie lists, 2019 goal lists, naughty or nice lists... In SAM, lists are used throughout to characterize records. Clients have a great deal of freedom to develop lists but, "checking it twice,” and reviewing lists should be done periodically to refine them and ensure your teams understand the definitions of lists.
