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You know, we'd scratch stuff on legal pads,
and we couldn't find a legal pad, or
we'd lose the paper.
You know, we'd have to go back from memory
and try to remember what we, you know, discussed
with the family.
It took a lot of preparation, just making
sure I would have the necessary paperwork
with me, so that if the doctors ask me something,
or if the schools needed to verify anything,
and just making sure that I had that paperwork
with me on hand.
We had laptops, and some workers were using
those laptops, but it wasn't, it was more
work than it was making things easier.
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I really did not equate how Compass was gonna
help me.
I really didn't.
I thought, you know, it's one more thing I'm
gonna have to learn that's not gonna help me,
but when I realized the time that it saved
me, that I could then, you know, go see a child,
you know, a school more often, or you
know, go to a doctors appointment and really
feel like I had time to sit there with them
or go in the home and work with families.
Yeah, and it also helps in that when our supervisors
can see what we're dealing with out in the field,
it just helps to make a better determination
on a decision that needs to be made
to make sure that they stay safe, whether we need
to place them with a family member or if we
actually need to take a back seat, some of
those things can be, those decisions can be
made a whole lot quicker.
The biggest advantage for me as a supervisor
is I have the information, not in real time
because that would be as they were doing it,
but I have it much sooner than I would have
ever had it in the past, and I can look at
it, I can review it.
It gives me the opportunity to read the documentation
way ahead of time generally, to look at the
forms they put in, to look at pretty much
everything.
For me, it has been great having the tablet
cause I do a lot of hands on stuff with my
clients, and I take them to a lot of appointments.
Now I can actually take time to look for resources.
Before, you know, you want to help the family
find resources, but you really didn't have time,
and you felt like you helped one family,
but then because you invested so much time
in that one family, you really didn't get
to help the rest of them, but now I can invest
a lot of time on one family, and it's OK because
I have that spare time.
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Like I said, I really initially saw it as
one more thing I'm going to have to do that
I don't have time to do, but when you realize
how much time it's gonna help you to do the
other thousand things you have to do, it is
really worth having, and like I said, this
is coming from someone who is not all that
tech savy, so if I can learn how to do it
and navigate and benefit, you know, anybody
can do it.
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