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BridgeCare Solutions for the Public Sector

Child Care

  • Administrators benefit from the added efficiency of automation and streamlined workflows. Access to accurate, real-time data empowers admins to make informed decisions that impact the entire ecosystem and make the case for additional funding for their programs.
  • Providers benefit from an easy-to-use portal through which they can market their programs, manage enrollment, maintain licensing status, and more.
  • Families benefit from visibility into available openings, streamlined subsidy applications, and easy attendance management.

Pre-K Programs

  • BridgeCare serves as a one-stop, end-to-end solution. The program is highly interoperable, and all modules can easily be enable, disabled, and configured to meet the specific needs of your Pre-K program.
  • Place children faster by automatically determining eligibility, scoring applications, and leveraging real-time supply and demand data to fill available slots.
  • Measure and report on year-over-year success, track the value of process improvements, and iterate on workflows to continue evolving.

Coordinated ECE

  • Reduce the burden of target beneficiaries. Empower providers to blend and braid funds into one payment and track multiple sources for each child. Lighten the load on families by consolidating eligibility for multiple programs into one application.
  • Enable more efficient use of funds by identifying all publicly-funded children by funding source. Maximize resources, understand demand, and improve accessibility.
  • Understand the true cost of care for each child by consolidating reporting for better insights. Track all supports needed to provide each child with adequate care.

Product Modules

  • Applications and Enrollment
    • Single, streamlined application, eligibility, and enrollment across programs and funding sources.
    • Automatically determine eligibility. Ease the stress of uncertainty for parents and reduce the number of applications your team has to process.
    • Remove placement process bias with our deferred acceptance algorithm based on predetermined, weighted factors that can be customized to meet your needs.
    • Reduce turnaround times and be more productive by collecting documents up front, digitally scoring and prioritizing applications, and automating eligibility determinations.
  • Family Search
    • Connect families with available care and generate demand insights.
    • Display real-time openings to families.
    • Enable free, user-friendly advertising for care providers at no cost.
    • Easily report on supply and demand across ages and specialized care options.
  • Payments
    • Distribute funds to providers and families, hassle-free and PCI-compliant.
    • Track and disburse funds through BridgeCare directly or by integrating with your existing payment system.
    • Schedule payments, view status, log reimbursements, and resolve outstanding balances. All transactions are recorded in one place.
    • Easily blend and braid funding streams.
  • Monitoring and Assessments
    • Inspect and assess providers for licensing status and quality improvement. Monitor child development throughout their ECE journey.
    • Customizable to mirror your unique assessment processes, including as many steps as needed.
    • Assessments are linked to providers or children so you can easily track development/quality/compliance over time.
    • Measure ROI and use the insights gathered to reallocate resources to improve your ECE system.
  • Grant Applications
    • Customize your application and review process, including automatic determination of eligibility and unique workflows for each grant. Set stages and tag applications accordingly.
    • Identify eligible applicants easily, pre-populate applications with previously saved data, and track funding and outcomes related to awards.
    • Collaborative tools enable you to automatically add or remove access for individual administrators or teams depending on an application’s stage.
  • Provider Management
    • Streamline onboarding for newly recruited or existing providers with an experience defined by you.
    • Improve data collection efforts and define who can make changes and what can be changed.
    • Monitor activities and engagement on the BridgeCare platform to identify future opportunities such as grant eligibility and the ability to participate in quality efforts.
  • Case Management
    • Unify the intake process and provide a consistent interface for families, ensuring an equitable, accurate experience for all.
    • Retain granular control over permissions, edit access, and task configurations.
  • Learning Management (LMS)
    • Design courses your learners will love, featuring video content, documents, quizzes, and links to supporting resources. Administrators have full freedom to design course formats and content.    
    • Share courses with learners across your state or community in seconds.
    • Measure course completions with real-time analytics, reporting, and robust dashboards.
  • Reporting and Analytics
    • Data is the heart of the BridgeCare platform. View all relevant data for your ECE ecosystem in one place.
    • All reports are automatically saved and up to date, so you don’t have to re-run or duplicate them.
    • Cross-system integration makes it easy to export and transform data to improve interoperability with external systems.
    • All data is owned by you, BridgeCare’s role is just to make it easier for you to access and visualize. BridgeCare is compliant with even toughest state and federal privacy and security requirements.
  • Coaching & Technical Assistance (TA)
    • Enable seamless team collaboration by giving members the ability to stay up to date on other teams’ activities and share learnings with each other.
    • Improve communication by giving your team and coaches access to past coaching and technical assistance logs to better support the provider calls or visits. Refer to past engagements for continuous improvement.
    • Measure the impact of your coaching team’s hours to improve the quality of child care and assistance in your community.
  • Time and Attendance
    • Collect real-time hourly, daily, or monthly attendance from providers to track participation.
    • Define your own attendance tracking cadence depending on the goals of your program.
    • Audit attendance reports via provider profiles.
  • Credentialing
    • Upskill your workforce by tracking certifications, setting goals, and evaluating progress.
    • Create transparent career paths with clear action items for career advancement.
    • Recognize and reward avid learners with certificates. This is often used to drive QRIS programs and other quality initiatives.
    • Define quality for your state or region by requiring specific skills or credentials, then measure the impact of those programs on quality over time.
  • Messaging
    • Open the communication lines between families, providers, and you.
    • Instant messaging for one-to-one communications or announcements for one-to-many via preferred methods of contact (email or text).
    • Curate lists of targeted recipients; e.g. all families with an application in progress or all providers with a quality rating of 2 or higher.
  • Workforce Management
    • Understand your workforce. Capture data on demographics, staff capacity, and employee movement among providers.
    • Support your workforce’s continued growth and development with a clear window into education, credentials, and certifications.
    • Measure workforce progress and track improvement over time to gain program insights and identify high-impact initiatives.