Numerous studies have demonstrated the importance of early childhood development. They show that before our children even enter kindergarten, 40% of them are as much as 18 months behind. Moreover, even at this early age, an ability gap of up to 60% or more already exists between the children in the highest and lowest socioeconomic groups. Factors such as language and cultural issues, lack of transportation, and cost can make it difficult for local governments and non-profits to impact these troubling statistics. With an increased commitment to early childhood education from the federal government, and an ever-steepening demand for organizations to demonstrate their effectiveness through outcome reports, early childhood learning is seeing some real gains from the use of performance management software.

Thrive by Five Washington is a ground-breaking collaborative which brings early childhood education efforts together, in order to ensure that all children are ready for kindergarten. Thrive by Five Washington selected ETO performance management software to meet its data sharing needs and to support its commitment to data-driven decision making. ETO outcomes software empowers Thrive by Five Washington to do more than just collect data: ETO makes data work, highlighting the connection between the efforts and outcomes of the agencies and programs, both collectively and respectively.

ETO software enables communities like Boulder County to track early childhood efforts and outcomes and integrate them with virtually any program. The outcomes software is flexible enough to meet the needs of each individual service provider and program, including programs like Head Start, while providing a common database for tracking progression toward individual, family, program, and county level goals—and without imposing additional reporting or compliance burdens on area service providers. In fact, the outcomes software can quickly and easily produce compliance reports for Head Start and for other early childhood and social impact programs.

The ETO platform enables sharing of best practices, collaboration and coordination of services and programs amongst multiple early childhood and other social service providers, and tracking of true participant progression in the form of efforts and outcomes.  This web based software has no client software needs, other than a web browser.  The software’s ease of use and power has made it the product of choice for thousands of high performing nonprofit, government, and collaborative organizations, which serve over 4 million participants each day.

Social Solutions is the leading provider of performance management software for human services, connecting efforts to outcomes, people to social services, and service providers and communities to funders.  The company’s ETO software goes beyond case management, enabling public, private, and nonprofit organizations, such as Harlem Children’s Zone®, Catholic Charities, Annie E. Casey Foundation, HUD, and cities such as Boston and Hartford to collaborate, save time, and improve quality and effectiveness.

ETO™ is a trademark of Social Solutions, Global, Inc. Harlem Children's Zone® and HCZ® are registered trademarks of HCZ, Inc.