Child & Youth Services
Supporting the Ecosystem of Care with a Single System
Children and families don’t just experience care through programs—they experience it through relationships. Arize connects the people, processes, and information that support every child.
Child & Youth Services (CYS) organizations operate within a complex ecosystem of people, homes, providers, state and county agencies, payers, and community partners. Critical information is often scattered across disconnected systems, paper files, and manual processes, leading to administrative burden, communication gaps, and limited visibility into outcomes. When staff spend time managing systems instead of supporting children and families, everyone feels the impact. Organizations need a better way to connect people, processes, and information to coordinate care more effectively.
40% of children in foster care experience three or more placements each year (source)
Foster parent turnover rates are high, reaching up to 50% each year (source)
ACF estimates a national ratio of roughly 57 foster homes for every 100 children in care (source)
Only 10-20% of prospective parents who initially inquire about fostering complete the licensing process (source)
70,000+ children have adoption as their permanency goal (source)
Empower Care Teams to Focus on Children and Families
Arize doesn’t just manage cases. It manages the full ecosystem of care around children. Our comprehensive and configurable EHR platform allows you to provide the right information to the right people at the right time to ensure timely placement and coordinated care.
- Create a connected view of children, caregivers, homes, placements, and services so everyone works from the same information.
- Adapt workflows, approvals, notifications, and compliance processes to support your organization’s unique programs and requirements.
- Extend information exchange beyond organizational boundaries through built-in integration capabilities that connect providers, payers, and partners.
- Empower foster parents and caregivers with secure access to information, tasks, placements, and activities that help them participate in care.
- Reduce administrative burden associated with casework and care coordination.
Building A Connected Foundation
Better Care Coordination for Children
Data about children in care is often scattered across systems, which creates challenges for care coordination.
Arize creates a comprehensive view of each child’s support network.
It ensures critical information about the child is available to people who need it, helping organizations:
- Coordinate services
- Manage placements
- Track incidents
- Make informed decisions that support positive outcomes
Stronger Support for Foster Parents
At a time when many communities face shortages of foster families, organizations cannot afford administrative barriers that make supporting foster parents more difficult.
With Arize, organizations can:
- Manage foster parent licensing, engagement, reimbursement, and communication.
- Give foster parents secure access to approved information and documentation, licensing requirements, placements, respites, and other activities that help them actively participate in care and ensure proper, timely reimbursement.
- Simplify key processes that keep programs running efficiently, from onboarding to ongoing support.
Greater Visibility into Foster Homes
When information about foster homes is spread across multiple systems, organizations may struggle to evaluate placement options and maintain visibility into home readiness.
Arize centralizes information within a comprehensive foster home record:
- Connect foster parents, children, staff, household members (even pets!), household information, and documentation within a single operational view.
- Allow organizations to build workflows around critical processes such as inspections, renewals, safety reviews, and incident management, which helps improve visibility and accountability.
More Connected CYS Operations
Disconnected systems create duplicate data entry, inconsistent information, reporting challenges, compliance risk, and administrative burden. Most importantly, staff spend valuable time managing systems instead of supporting children and families.
Arize unifies people, processes, and information across the broader ecosystem.
Doing so helps CYS organizations:
- Improve data integration and information exchange
- Strengthen collaboration
- Support staff retention
- Enable teams to focus more time on children and families
One Platform Across Behavioral Health & Child & Youth Services
Children don’t receive services in silos. Organizations shouldn’t have to manage them that way. Yet most technology is designed for only one service line, forcing staff to switch systems as care evolves.
Arize brings behavioral health and child & youth services together in a single configurable platform with one shared database.
Information is entered once, connected to the right child, family, and program, and available wherever it’s needed. The result is a more complete picture of each family’s journey, less duplicate work for staff, and more coordinated care across every service line.
Key Capabilities in Arize for Child & Youth Services
Foster Parent Engagement
Recruit, onboard, license, communicate with, and support foster parents through dedicated foster parent records and secure caregiver access.
Foster Home Management
Maintain comprehensive records for every foster home, including home information, licensing documentation, safety reviews, capacity management, and more.
Care Coordination
Track placements, placement preferences, availability, incidents, services, and communications to support timely placement decisions and ongoing care coordination.
Compliance and Oversight
Manage inspections, licensing requirements, due dates, approvals, incident reporting, and critical compliance activities through configurable workflows and task management.
Financial Management
Track room and board charges, foster parent reimbursements, billing activities, payment approvals, and reconciliation processes.
Connectivity and Collaboration
Improve information exchange across providers, states, counties, payers, and community partners through foundational APIs and integration capabilities.
