Foster Parent Licensing

In caseTRACK, foster parents are recorded as clients. This enables users to associated any number of addresses, phone numbers, tasks (such as required documentation and screenings), etc.

In addition, one of caseTRACK's more recently added features is the Licensing feature. Now you can add this vital information to your foster parent's electronic record by simply adding 2 quicklinks:

• Add a License
• View Licenses

For help adding Quicklinks, take a look at this post, http://casetrack.blogspot.com/2009/01/using-quicklinks-for-more-efficient.html

Once you have added these quicklinks, you will be able to easily maintain current and historical license information for your foster parents.

Add a License

To add license information for your foster parents, search for and select the foster parent's record to go to their client information page.

Click the 'Add a License' quicklink at the top of the client information page. Fill out the license information and click 'Save'.

You have now associated a new license record to the foster parent.

View Licenses

To view or edit an existing license, click the 'View Licenses' quicklink at the top of the parent's client information page.

This will open another window with all the foster parent's license(s). To view the license, click the view icon, to edit the license, click the edit icon. To delete the license, click the delete icon.

Note: The only reason to 'delete' a license is if the license information was entered in error originally. There is no need to 'delete' an old license if there is a new license that superseeds the old. Instead you can edit the license and change the license status to 'expired'.

Available Reports

These reports are currently available in the reports category, Licensing:

• My Division's Licenses Expiring
  Displays the Licenses expiring in a user specified date range.
• My Division's Licenses Active
  Summarizes the active homes and licensed beds in your division.

Other Identification

If you want to go the extra step of connecting the Foster Children to appropriate Foster Homes, you can use the Other Identification feature. As long as both the foster parents and the foster children have the same "Foster Parent License ID" they will be connected.

The logical License ID would be the ID on the foster parent's license issued by the state, but individual foster parent licensing programs may choose to use another ID if it makes more sense for the program's purposes. The important thing to remember is to be consistent within the program.

You can take a look here for a little more information about the many uses for the Other Identification feature: http://casetrack.blogspot.com/2009/08/casetracks-other-identification-feature.html

Q: What do ASQ, Ages and Stages and Edinburg Postnatal Depression Scale have in common?

A: All these scores and assessments can now be tracked in caseTRACK.

Scores and Assessments Feature

You might have already noticed this new feature on your caseTRACK client page.

The new Scores and Assessments feature can be used to track your client's current and historical scores on a variety of different assessments.

If your program requires that you provide an assessment and track your clients' progress from initial score to discharge score (or periodic scores during scores), let us know.

I Don't Know My Clients Social Security Number

When creating a new client in caseTRACK you are required to enter a social security number. So what do you do when you don't have that information?

Creating a Pseudo-SSN

If it is not possible to obtain the person’s actual SSN, you should use a 9 digit pseudo-SSN in the format FMLMMDDYY where:

F: First letter of the First Name
M: First letter of the Middle Name. If the client does not have a middle name, use the letter “X” as the second digit.
L: First letter of the Last Name
MM: Enter month of Birth (use leading zeros for Months, e.g., 01 through 09)
DD: Enter day of Birth (use leading zeros for days, e.g., 01 through 09)
YY: Enter year of birth (use leading zeros where necessary, e.g., 01 through 09)

For example, if your client's name is Elmer T. Fudd and was born on 1/1/2005, Elmer's pseudo-SSN will be ETF010105.

In cases where your client's exact birthday cannot be obtained, determine the person’s approximate age (ask, “How old are you?” or give your best guess), then code the birthday as January 1 of the appropriate year.

If 2 individual's pseudo-SSNs are identical, you can use X, Y or Z in the middle initial position. For example if Elmer has a twin brother Ernest T. Fudd, you could use a pseudo-SSN of EXF010105.

Note: The pseudo-SSN should always be used for that client until the true or correct social security number is known.

If you are simply fascinated with Pseudo-SSNs and just have to read more you can take a look at Department of Children & Families Pamphlet 155-2.

What are Collateral Contacts?

The Collateral Contacts feature in caseTRACK can be used to organize a client's family members, extended family and their Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) members. Using caseTRACK collateral contacts feature to store this information in a single place allows for shared access to this important information.

A client can have unlimited collateral contacts. Examples of collateral contacts are Grandparents, Therapists, Teachers, Clergy, Probation Officers plus many others.

A single collateral contact can be associated with more than one client and can have different roles for different clients. For example, a collateral contact can be “Teacher” to client A and also be “Parent/Guardian” to client B.

A collateral contact can be currently or historically involved in the client's case.

Benefits

Unlike storing contact information in a hard copy file in a storage room or in Microsoft Outlook, the clients contacts are organized an easily accessible by other caseTRACK users who might need the same information.

Because a collateral contact's information is shared, updated information flows instantly through to all clients associated with the contact.