Collaborative Social Services
Community-Based, Comprehensive Services
Participants and families benefit most when they are served by a collaborative social network of comprehensive services. The collaborative network can provide a far broader range of services than any one organization all by itself. In addition, family members with a variety of needs can have their needs more effectively addressed through the specialized services of multiple organizations vs. one. Funders and foundations such as Annie E. Casey Foundation, Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation all employ this philosophy, and encourage the human and social services organizations that they fund to follow a collaborative approach to human services as well.
Collaborative Social Services Software
Social Solutions’ Efforts to Outcomes (ETO™) software helps organizations to quickly and easily track efforts, outcomes, and progress as part of a collaborative performance management approach to human and social services. Using this referral software helps organizations work together to most effectively meet participant and family needs. Its success in the Harlem Children’s Zone® makes ETO software ideal for such community-based, competitive grant programs as Promise Neighborhoods, Choice Neighborhoods, and Beacon Communities.
With ETO software, you can:
Relate your service delivery efforts with their desired outcomes
Monitor the effectiveness of your efforts
Understand where you’re having the greatest impact
Adjust your service model
Identify, replicate, and share, best practices
Report successes in minutes, not days or weeks
Attract more funding