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Baltimore, MD - Social Solutions, the leading provider of performance management software for human services, and ANCOR (American Network of Community Options and Resources) announced a newly formed partnership to enhance the quality of community based services to people with disabilities. Through this partnership, Social Solutions will make its Efforts to Outcomes (ETO™) software available to over 800 ANCOR member organizations, which serve nearly 500,000 Americans with disabilities. ANCOR members will be able to track services provided in ETO, along with resulting outcomes, using pre-defined templates and reports that feed directly into ANCOR’s nationally recognized Performance Excellence benchmarking project.
“This ground breaking initiative reduces paperwork and administration, while improving the quality of services provided by ANCOR member organizations. In addition, it contributes directly to the quality of support and service improvements encouraged by ANCOR’s Performance Excellence Initiative (PEI) Quality Framework” said ANCOR CEO Renee Pietrangelo. “This helps ANCOR to meet its core goal of increasing the capacity of its member organizations and the people they serve, while also supporting important national initiatives, such as the Core Indicators quality framework for states espoused by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).”
Through this program, direct service providers will be able to assess consumer needs and gather point of service information in the form of efforts and outcomes ETO. They will also have access to standardized assessments, service plans, and a history of services provided, as appropriate, for the people they serve. Member organizations will be able to participate in a nationally recognized benchmarking program without additional overhead, using the effort and outcome information.
“ANCOR members will be able to measure and improve the effectiveness of their human service efforts with this program,” says Matt Schubert, CEO of Social Solutions. “For the thousands of public and private organizations already using ETO, we have seen a remarkable improvement in program effectiveness and quality, a dramatic increase in funding, and a significant decrease in manual reporting efforts. We expect that ANCOR members will see similar benefits as they begin to track efforts and outcomes in ETO, and apply performance management techniques to their community based service work.”
About Social Solutions
Social Solutions challenges and equips human service providers and their funders to turn good intent into measurable change by relating efforts to outcomes. The company’s ETO (Efforts to Outcomes) performance management software, tailored to the unique mission of each nonprofit, gives organizations a clear picture of which efforts are having the greatest impact on the social issues they strive to address. With this knowledge, organizations can reinforce what's working, adjust what isn't, and more easily report quantified successes to key stakeholders. For more information, please visit www.socialsolutions.com or www.socialsolutions.com/ancor.
About ANCOR
The American Network of Community Options and Resources is a nonprofit trade association representing and advocating on behalf of the more than 800 private providers of services and supports for nearly 500,000 Americans with disabilities in 49 states and Washington, D.C. ANCOR’s efforts in the area of public policy, federal legislative and regulatory initiatives, judicial results, state-level initiatives and the culling of leading practices have uniquely positioned it as the national presence for private providers. For more information, please visit www.ancor.org.