Cúram for Child Care
Cúram for Child Care is a new generation child care solution that is designed to deliver dramatically improved access to affordable care by supporting multiple child care programs and integrating key business processes.
Suitable for:
- Agencies worldwide that serve parents who have child care needs
- Caseworkers responsible for referring parents to licensed, safe, and affordable child care
- Workforce/Labor Agencies desiring to employ parents with requirements for child care services
The Cúram for Child Care solution is a commercial off-the-shelf product that delivers comprehensive functionality to determine eligibility, assist parents select providers, license providers, manage and track funding availability, waitlists, attendance, co-payments, provider reimbursement and child care plans.
Cúram for Child Care leverages industry best practices to achieve improved outcomes for families, providers and governments. With its integrated case management, Cúram for Child Care incorporates online screening and application intake, electronic case folder, powerful service and child care planning, comprehensive provider management, and multi-disciplinary teams to support improved collaboration and stakeholder-centric service delivery.
Case workers can leverage a broad network of providers and community services. Through business process automation technology and multi-channel user access, governments can support more responsive, efficient and consistent client interactions. The reporting and analysis capabilities of Cúram for Child Care provide faster and more comprehensive information for all stakeholders.
- Comprehensive solution supports all aspects of child care programs:
- Has extensive depth & breadth of functionality
- Incorporates CEE:SAW guidelines
- Can be leveraged by any program that includes subsidized child care
- COTS solution lowers total cost of ownership:
- Offers flexibility to address key business requirements
- Reduces cost of implementation
- Reduces maintenance costs
- Supports business transformation goals such as:
- Client self service
- Outcome focused child care plans
- Dynamic fund tracking
- Improves agency effectiveness by providing access to:
- Comprehensive provider information
- Detailed, dynamic fund information
- Real-time progress & outcomes status updates
- Integrated provider and financial management
- Helps achieve better outcomes by:
- Supporting comprehensive, secure and collaborative integrated case management
- Promoting multi-disciplinary teams when appropriate
- The only COTS solution in the market that includes pre-built business processes supporting the complete child care program lifecycle
- Includes robust, social service focused Provider Management
- Extensive provider self service capabilities reduce staff workload
- Electronic financial management reduces inefficiencies & cost
- Convenient provider search & matching improves service quality
- Comprehensive place management enhances child care quality
- Incident & investigation management leads to better provider accountability
- Supports tracking of accreditation, license, contracts and background check leading to better provider quality
- Integrates eligibility services and service plans setting the path to optimized child care plans
- Ensures the right benefits and services are delivered to the right people at the right time
- Caseworkers continuously track and monitor client progress (or the obstacles encountered) to reassess on an ongoing basis
- Ensures a consistent approach to service delivery
- Provides administrators with the information needed to measure outcomes
- Provides a framework for agencies to collaborate for the best outcomes
- Allows for Incremental Modernization and Transformation (IMT approach)
Supporting Materials
...11.9 million children or six in ten children under the age of five, were enrolled in some form of child care during the previous year.
The Quality Counts report, published in Education Week