How are your foster children under your care at Children and Family Services kept safe and secure?
With the IDentifyED App’s Children/Family services safety system the below scenario could have been avoided:
Teddy is 10.
He was just taken from his home, his mom could not wake up, the police told him she is an ad-dict and could not take care of him. The police told him to go with some lady, and then he went with some man somewhere, and now he is with some lady again — who is introducing him to this new lady, who is his “foster mother” (she does not look like his mother) he is going to live in this house somewhere — at least for now.
Teddy is scared and alone.
Teddy has a lot of questions and is worried. Wouldn’t you be?
What happens if this does not work out? What happens if he is scared and needs to talk to someone? Who is going to answer all his questions? How does he get help when he needs it? Will he ever talk to or see his mom again? How? He likes the last lady; how does he talk to her?
PROBLEM: Foster children need a way to ask for help, to communicate, to ask questions, to share their feelings, to share their locations, to share their calendar. To feel safe and know when they need help, they can ask for it.
So, what is being done to keep foster children safe and secure today?
The majority of software in the foster care industry is focused on the case-workers, the remainder is focused on the foster care family, and the application process. Every piece of software is focused on documenting the case or applying to become a foster parent.
Our foster children aren’t cases, they are people. People who for the first time may be alone, scared and in need of a way to ask for help, to talk to people.
So, to turn it around and put the issues of the foster child in the forefront, let’s ask this:
If you are a foster child or a foster parent and you need help;
- What do you do?
- Who do you call?
- Who will respond?
- What happens if you need help and your child, and it’s about your foster family, who do you contact?
- What happens if there is a big event, like a hurricane?
- What is the plan?
- How are you as the agency documenting response to the child or the foster parent?
- What is your agencies liability?
- How do you communicate, is it securely?
- How can you keep the parent in touch with their child, safely, securely and audit the communication?
- How do you reduce risk, personal injuries and save lives?
- How do you reduce litigation and liability expense?
Identifyed is an APP and a system, it requires that the users have a smart phone. A smart phone allows the child to have access to help, communication to share location and calendar information.
What will keep your children safe?
1A tool that children in your care can use every day, not just in an emergency. Something that houses their program ID with their picture, allows for communications, chat, group messaging, message boards, calendars, file sharing, and location sharing, items that both are critical to their day, and allow them to be safer, share their location, and communicate better.
2A tool that foster families need to communicate with their children, parents and case workers can use every day, not just in an emergency. Something that houses their program ID, their picture, allows for communications, chat, group messaging, message boards, calendars, file sharing, and location sharing, items that both are critical to their day, and allow them to be safer, share their location, and communicate better.
3A tool that parents who have a need to communicate with their children, foster families and case workers can use every day, not just in an emergency. Something that houses their program ID, their picture, allows for communications, chat, group messaging, message boards, calendars and file sharing, location sharing, items that both are critical to their day, and allow them to be safer, share their location, and communicate better.
4A tool that case workers who have a need to communicate with their children, foster families and parents can use every day, not just in an emergency. Something that houses their program ID, their picture, allows for communications, chat, group messaging, message boards, calendars, file sharing, location sharing, items that both are critical to their day, and allow them to be safer, share their location, and communicate better.
5A tool and process to report and ask for help as issues happen for the children, the parent, the foster parent and the case worker.
6When your emergency personnel or social workers respond to an incident, or needs help themselves; having critical allergy or medical alerts available within the help request along with emergency contact information, specific location information, and a picture is critical.
7As an incident occurs staff and security centrally and remotely document and update the status in order to respond, communicate, coordinate and document actions as they are taken.
8If you need to send out an emergency notification to all children, parents, foster parents, and case workers in your care or in the agency. Emergency notifications or broadcasts will need to be sent out in many different ways App, Device Notification Services, text, email, IDentifyed’s message box.
9When you send out an emergency notification you may need to have some canned procedures you may also need to have some custom news and alerts. For example, a hurricane is coming and you need to update all children and foster parents of specific issues relating to the impending storm and make certain resources available to them.
10Are you sending only to a specific group of people? Have the ability send a broadcast to a specific group. For example, all the parents, foster parents and children in the care of a specific case worker.
11Children, parents, foster parents, and case workers need a precise method to identify their location during a critical event, make certain that you have this ability.
12Expect children to be able to check into a place, group, event, bus or create their own special locations (like home), and share this with information.
13Keep different groups (leadership, case workers, parents, foster parents or children) informed, privately and securely. Communicating to different group specific information and instructions is a huge advantage during a critical event or simply day to day.
14Provide a tool that allows users to have immediate access to policies, procedures and emergency procedures.
What does IDentifyED Campus Security solution provide a corporation or corporate campus?
1IDentifyED provides a tool that children in your care can use every day, not just in an emergency. Something that houses their program ID, yheir picture, allows for communications, todos, chat, group messaging, message boards, calendars and file sharing, location sharing, as well as help requests; items that both are critical to their day, and allow them to be safer, share their location, and communicate better.
2IDentifyED provides a tool that foster families need to communicate with their children, parents and case workers can use every day, not just in an emergency. Something that houses their Program ID, their picture, allows for communications, todos, chat, group messaging, message boards, calendars and file sharing, location sharing, as well as help requests; items that both are critical to their day, and allow them to be safer, share their location, and communicate better.
3IDentifyED provides a tool that parents who have a need to communicate with their children, foster families and case workers can use every day, not just in an emergency. Something that houses their Program ID, their picture, allows for communications, todos, chat, group messaging, message boards, calendars and file sharing, location sharing, as well as help requests; items that both are critical to their day, and allow them to be safer, share their location, and communicate better.
4IDentifyED provides a tool that case workers who have a need to communicate with their children, foster families and parents can use every day, not just in an emergency. Something that houses their Program ID, their picture, allows for communications, todos, chat, group messaging, message boards, calendars and file sharing, location sharing, as well as help requests; items that both are critical to their day, and allow them to be safer, share their location, and communicate better.
5IDentifyED provides a tool and process to report and ask for help as issues happen for the children, the parent, the foster parent and the case worker.
6IDentifyED provides a tool when your emergency personnel or social workers respond to an incident, or needs help themselves; having critical allergy or medical alerts available within the help request along with emergency contact information, specific location information, and a picture is critical.
7IDentifyED provides a tool as an incident occurs staff and security centrally and remotely document and update the status in order to respond, communicate, coordinate and document actions as they are taken.
8IDentifyED provides a tool as an incident occurs staff and security centrally and remotely document and update the status in order to respond, communicate, coordinate and document actions as they are taken.
9IDentifyED provides a tool that if you need to send out an emergency notification to all children, parents, foster parents, and case workers in your care or in the agency. Emergency notifications or broadcasts will need to be sent out in many different ways App, Device Notification Services, text, email, IDentifyed’s message box.
10IDentifyED provides a tool allows you to send a message or emergency broadcast to a specific group of people. For example, all the parents, foster parents and children in the care of a specific case worker.
11IDentifyED provides a tool so that children, parents, foster parents, and case workers need a precise method to identify their location during a critical event, make certain that you have this ability. Also, allows children to be able to check into a place, group, event, bus or create their own special locations (like home), and share this with information.
12IDentifyED provides a tool to keep different groups (leadership, case workers, parents, foster parents or children) informed, privately and securely. Communicating to different group specific information and instructions is a huge advantage during a critical event or simply day to day.
13IDentifyED provides a tool that allows users to have immediate access to policies, procedures and emergency procedures.
14IDentifyED provides a tool that allows users to have immediate access to helpful and common URL resources in a “custom dashboard, easily accessible”.
15IDentifyED provides a tool that allows case workers or foster families to update a calendar on the child’s events and whereabouts.
Top reasons why IDentifyED is the best Child and Family services security system
1BEST User Engagement
- Program ID
- Custom URL resource App w/custom resources
- Help Requests
- Emergency Notification
- Policy and Emergency Procedure Content
- Location sharing
2Secure authenticated encrypted and auditable communication
- User, and Group Communication dashboards
- Message Boards
- Picture Sharing
- File Sharing
- Location Sharing
- Messaging
- Chat
3BEST Help Request
- Intelligent Request.
- Location
- Critical Contact info.
- Allergy and medical alerts
- Pictures
- Intelligent Response.
- Remote and Central Operations
- Status, Control and Documentation.
- Intelligent Logistics and Prevention.
4BEST Child, Parent, Foster Parent and Case Worker Communication tool
- Provides a wide variety and flexible and secure tools for communication.
- Documents all requests for help, immediately and provides the documentation associated with how care was provided.
- Provides comfort to all parties; Children, Parents, Foster Parents, and Caseworkers that communication and requests for help can be provided.
IDentifyED Security Management API
IDentifyED has a large library of APIs so that 3rd parties with the proper credentials can interact with IDentifyED.
Integration from your Case Management System
Integration is the best news yet!
IDentifyEd has the ability to integrate with your case management systems and directory services so that you can put user and login information as well as in many business rules and other critical information.
With a complete children family services safety security system you turn tragedy into the opportunity to demonstrate your ability to help, communicate and respond.
What is holding you back from a children family services safety system?
- Do you have an agency security management system already, but it does not leverage the children, parents and foster parent’s needs? What is the point of a security and safety system anyway?
- Implementing is quick and easy.
- The IDentifyED system cost is easily justified based upon the reduction of litigation.
- Every minute you wait you create more risk, liability and negligence.
- You can start saving lives and communicating to everyone that your system is safe and secure, today!