Data and analytics for human services

Wipfli’s innovative Head Start analytics solution seamlessly integrates your ChildPlus and other program data into one source for operational and outcomes reporting using Microsoft Power BI. With our dashboards, you’re not just getting an analytics tool — you’re gaining a true collaborator in your mission to serve children and families.

Our Head Start analytics solution collects all your data in one place, giving you a 360-degree view of each child in your programs, from enrollment to family outcomes.

With these dashboards, you can:

• Treat your data as an asset: Consolidate and own your program data within an agency database to support quality, current and future reporting, and analytics requirements across compliance, outcomes and operational efficiency.
• Save time with customizable, automated reports: Customize Wipfli’s templates to your agency’s specific metrics, reports and visualizations. Our dashboards automate your data and reports, saving you hours and days of time otherwise spent on manual reporting methods that rely on manipulating Excel downloads.
• Track board-level reporting to operational reporting using drill-throughs: Track critical enrollment- and attendance-related metrics from the higher program or sites level and drill down to the child level — all in one report.
• Enjoy a rich and easy-to-use user experience: Our data visualizations allow you to correlate data across processes and tell your data stories to board members, community and program staff members. Easy visibility allows staff members to access data-driven insights and be more responsive to needs.
• Leverage artificial intelligence: Built on Azure with a strong data foundation, Wipfli’s dashboards allow for integration of predictive capabilities, gen AI voice-based data entry, text analytics and forecasting capabilities.
• Visualize data in a single view: The platform eliminates the need to flip through multiple compliance systems for individual views of data, helping you make better programmatic decisions.

Reporting

Wipfli’s Head Start reporting solutions are highly customizable and extendable. Reports can include staffing, child and family outcomes, financial reports and more, such as:

• Enrollment: Track counts of funded versus enrolled, statuses (enrolled, dropped, completed, waitlisted), transitions from and to programs, and the enrollment pipeline.
• Attendance: Track counts/percentages based on absence reasons and chronic absences.
• Health requirements and immunizations: Track age group-based reporting of health, dental and immunization assessments, as well as a BMI report for children that categorizes healthy weight, overweight, obese or underweight.
• Meals and nutrition: Track meals served (breakfast, lunch, snacks)
• 360-degree view of a child: View one consolidated report per child that displays family demographics and all the above metrics.
• Demographic insights: Understand your clients’ current demographics and community’s needs through visualizations and ArcGIS with poverty line statistics and other key demographics that can help you better plan and assist families.
• Sites scorecard: Compare agency sites’ performance based on 10 metrics.

Wipfli understands the complexity human services organizations face in managing data from all the systems you need to meet federal and state reporting requirements. Our team can help you develop a strategy and manage your data — including support for implementing a whole family approach — so that you can build a data-driven culture while maintaining compliance.

Whether you’re integrating case management platforms, aligning with performance metrics or streamlining reporting processes, we can help you turn fragmented data into actionable insights, including services for:

• Cloud data management
• Data integration
• Implementing a data warehouse
• iPaaS integration
• AI strategy and adoption

 

We also offer data governance support that can equip your organization with:

• Master data management
• Metadata management to help ensure data is clean and trustworthy
• Established standards for data ownership, lineage and quality
• Cybersecurity

Wipfli’s digital team can help you design a scalable database architecture capable of growing with your organization and adapting to evolving community needs. We focus on building a data infrastructure that not only supports your day-to-day operations but also empowers you to tell your story, measure impact and drive meaningful change.

Database strategy and road-mapping

A strong data strategy is the backbone of effective service delivery and impact measurement. At Wipfli, we help human services organizations build a clear, actionable roadmap for their data infrastructure. We work closely with your team to understand your organization so that we can help you develop a strategy that serves your mission, operations and long-term goals.

Centralized intake process and data alignment

Wipfli takes a human-centered design approach to streamline your intake processes and maintain data alignment across programs and departments. We help you identify the processes, tools and strategies that can drive better outcomes. We also help align data collection and reporting to support compliance, funding requirements and strategic decision-making.

Holistic case management design and implementation

Wipfli’s holistic case management solutions are designed to help human services organizations deliver coordinated, compassionate and data-informed programs. By implementing the right case management platform, we can help you reduce your staff’s administrative burden and enhance service delivery. We also support workflow and system designs that align with your program’s requirements and interconnected services.

Core systems integration

Integrating your systems is the first step in gaining real-time access to cross-program insights and performance metrics. Wipfli helps you navigate core system integration with a centralized data warehouse. We support data migration and importation from your systems, focusing on accuracy, integrity and minimal disruption.