University & Community Counseling Management System
A system for managing university and community counseling: requests, referrals, programs, sessions, evaluation, follow-up, and reports of supporting agencies. Here you run a free or subsidized service for a specific audience, and are asked about its impact by a funding body — while simultaneously protecting the privacy of your clients from the entity you work under.
A service domain associated with a supporting party
In universities and associations, the client often does not pay, but rather the service is funded by an entity: a deanship, a fund, a donor, or the operating entity itself. This changes everything in the structure of the system: accrual replaces invoice, and report replaces collection.
Eligibility for service
Define the category served — employees of the entity, a geographic range, or a target group — and verify it upon request.
Supporting parties
Link services and programs to their funding source, so you know which activity serves any contractual obligation or grant.
Limits and targets
The number of targeted clients, sessions or programs during the funding period, with the percentage of completion monitored throughout it.
Financing periods
Each program has its duration and budget, and its data is separated from previous periods so that each report fits its cycle.
Multiple sources
Programs funded by different entities in the same system, with separate reports, targets, and limits for each entity.
Free and supported service
Services that are free of charge to the client, and others for a nominal fee or partially subsidized, are managed within the same system.
Requests, referrals and follow-up
The request here does not come from a single channel: the client may register himself, or be referred by an internal body, or be nominated within a preventive campaign. The system unifies these sources into one path for sorting, attribution, and follow-up, and keeps the source of each request because it is information your reports need.
Request or referral
The request is received in person or via a referral, and its source, reason, and initial priority level are recorded.
Screening and Eligibility
The client’s inclusion in the service is verified, and the appropriate path is determined: an individual session, a program, or an external referral.
Scheduling and Service
The case is assigned to a counselor or specialist and the service is scheduled, with the same documentation and assessment as in any episode of care.
Continue and close
The plan and tasks are followed up, the loop is closed with a documented outcome, and the referral source is informed as approvals allow.
Individual and group programs
In college and community counseling the emphasis is often on group and prevention programs: workshops, skills groups, and awareness campaigns. The system runs both modes with the same structure, so their contribution appears in a single report.
Cases that need follow-up
A complete episode of care for a client who was referred or self-requested the service.
- A separate file with its history, ratings and plan.
- Individual sessions with professional documentation and supervisory review.
- Tasks and follow-up between sessions and close with a documented outcome.
- External referral when the case exceeds the scope of your service.
Prevention programmes, workshops and initiatives
Managed via Group Program Management In its stages and presence.
- Registration, capacity and queue for each session.
- Schedule of meetings, attendance, tasks, and materials.
- Pre- and post-evaluation of each participant and combined program score.
- Repeating the program in successive cycles with the same structure.
Reports for decision service not for individual disclosure
The supporting entity needs evidence that the funding was spent in the appropriate manner, and the operating entity needs something to guide its planning. Both are served with aggregated indices. The identity of the client and the content of his sessions are outside the scope of any administrative report, no matter how high the requesting party.
What appears in the entity’s reports
Indicators are sufficient for planning and proving impact.
- The volume and trend of demand across quarters or months.
- Number of clients, sessions and programs implemented.
- How long to wait to get an appointment.
- Program completion rate and trend of assessment results combined.
- Referral sources and distribution of requested services.
What stays out of the reports
Borders not opened administratively.
- Names or identification numbers of clients.
- Who requested the service and who did not request it.
- The reason for the request or the content of the sessions.
- Individual evaluation results.
- Any detail that allows an individual to be distinguished in a small group.
Discuss the needs of the operator
The programs of universities and associations vary greatly: some have limited individual counseling services, and some have a system of preventive programs that serve thousands of members. We base the offer on your categories served, your referral paths, and your sponsor’s requirements.
What affects range?
The number of users, the diversity of programs, the method of verifying eligibility, the number of supporting agencies and the formats of their reports, and does it need to be linked to the systems of the operating agency to verify members. All items are clear View price, some of which pass through Integrations.
Have these ready before the meeting
Six elements are sufficient to estimate a realistic scope for your program:
- Categories served, their approximate size, and method of proving eligibility.
- Internal referral paths and who owns referrals to you.
- Your individual and group programs and their number per year.
- Your supporting bodies and the format and periodicity of the reports you request.
- Your policy on external referrals when the scope of your service exceeds.
- The systems you work in today and the amount of data you have in them.
University and Community Program Director Questions
Three frequently asked questions before adopting the system in these environments.
Is it possible to manage funded services?
Is it possible to link a referral?
What appears in the entity’s reports?
Display your destination’s program on the system
Describe your categories served, your programs, your referral paths, and what your sponsor requests, and we run a model that resembles your reality: request, referral, triage, group program, entity report — and then test for yourself the limits of what appears in it.
- A referral path and eligibility are set to your actions.
- Individual and group programs in one report.
- Valid Supporting Body Report for Grant Report.
Read on
Pages directly linked to community programs.
- Programs & Group Sessions
- Aggregated reports and indicators
- Privacy, permissions and consents
- Integrations with entity systems
- Employee support programs and entity contracts