The approach of the BraveloŽ Community Network minimizes the expense to agencies, minimizes inconvenience for workers, and maximizes benefits to clients. It is not intended to be a full case management system replacing existing systems, but rather a tool allowing these systems to function together on a larger community-wide level.
How does the BraveloŽ Community Network help human services professionals work smarter?
- Gives them valuable insight into the needs of people they work to help
- Dramatically cuts the amount of time they spend gathering information
- Allows them to spend more time working with clients
- Assists in reducing duplication of services
Administrators can:
- Promote better service coordination
- Reduce costs from unnecessary service duplication
- Preserve legacy systems and minimize future investments
- Capture timely information on client outcomes, demographics and services received
- Facilitate comprehensive planning and resource allocation
BraveloŽ Community Network Users can:
- Instantly access listings of all the community services their clients have received
- Study their clients' income, employment, social services, and residential histories
- Make electronic referrals to other human service providers within the BraveloŽ Community Network
- Access a database of resources and services within the community
How does the BraveloŽ Community Network benefit clients?
- Reduces travel to multiple intake sites and reduces waiting time
- Clarification in advance if they may be helped by specific services
- Provides access to multiple services from one location via screens and referrals
- Elimination of the demeaning retelling of personal stories and repeated submission of the same information to different providers
