The new accounts are CEDARS, Childkind, Visinet, Walden Family Services, Baptist Children’s Home of North Carolina, Masonic Home for Children at Oxford, York Place Episcopal Home for Children, CITY House, and Nazareth Children’s Home. As one can tell, the company’s into the nonprofit market – KaleidaCare provides private welfare agencies with Web-based case management and administrative tools, and currently have 86 private child and family services agencies across the United States as clients.
And this is a crucial area: “The tough economy has led to more families who are unable or unwilling to care for children, and at the same time governments have been reducing funding,” KaleidaCare President and CEO Alistair Deakin says, adding that there’s a “growing awareness among child and family welfare providers of the importance that client workflow optimization plays in responding to the economy and changing regulatory landscape.”
KaleidaCare has been in business since 1995.
Posting on Twitter recently, Deakin noted that “More public funding cuts are inevitable. Private child welfare agencies will have to fill the gap with donation programs and efficiencies.” History in the making – that’s the first and, hopefully, last time this reporter has quoted somebody’s tweets.
In February Deakin returned from visiting with Members of Congress, as part of the Child Welfare League of America’s Advocacy Day. On Tuesday, February 24, 2009, Deakin joined with leaders from agencies from all over the country to visit with Members of Congress, and help brief them on pressing issues facing the community of child welfare providers.
CWLA has launched a campaign for a White House Conference on Children and Youth, to take place in 2010, which was a focus of the visits. Deakin was also able to speak to senior congressional aides about the issues facing the 80 plus agency customers of KaleidaCare, namely the inadequacy of funding, the relative effectiveness of private agencies for delivering care, and the mismatch of financing to desired outcomes.
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