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Child Care Licensing Solutions
Protect the lives of children by streamlining and automating your agency’s regulatory functions. Our highly configurable child care licensing application adapts to your unique needs and workflows.
Ensure the Safety of Children
Join a growing community of human services agencies that are partnering with GL Solutions to keep children safe. GL Suite offers you a comprehensive child care licensing and inspection solution built on over 25 years of regulatory experience. Our unique solution streamlines and automates manual processes, freeing your staff to meet even more human needs—faster and more accurately.
Virginia Inspectors Eliminate Inspection Backlog and Reduce Complexity
Inspectors at the Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services use GL Suite to stay ahead of a growing workload, enabling them to perform critical (sometimes life-saving) inspections at a faster pace and with improved reporting accuracy.
The department’s customized GL Suite system automates and streamlines workflows related to child care license applications and renewals, investigations, and enforcement actions, as well as facility inspections.
Virginia’s GL Suite application:
- Allows the agency to manage all required documentation and communications electronically, including automated notices to both staff and providers
- Supports websites that allow residential providers to fulfill licensure requirements and the public to review licensure status, all online
- Manages background checks for facility staff
- Tracks available beds
Mobile Inspections Increase Agility, Capacity
GL Suite’s electronic mobile inspection forms are a powerful addition to any agency working with children and foster care because they enable field inspectors to do more. By giving field inspectors the ability to collect and submit inspection data digitally while still in the field, GL Suite eliminates the need for paper forms (and the host of potential errors that come with them).
At the conclusion of an inspection, field inspectors can instantly transmit results to the GL Suite cloud application. And in the case of low or no reception, the mobile app retains data for inspections that occur offline, securely transmitting the data once an internet connection is reestablished.
The application also pushes scheduled inspection updates to the inspector’s mobile device, ensuring access to current information of the child care provider right up to the minute the inspection begins.
And because GL Suite’s mobile inspection capabilities allow for smoother inspections, inspectors gain greater capacity to perform both scheduled and ad-hoc inspections.
Paper Inspections Create Problems. A Digital Mobile Solution Solves Them.
Using paper for inspections slows the process and increases the risk of errors: every handwritten comment must be later deciphered and manually copied into another system. A single dropped or transposed digit could virtually bury the record, causing hours of manual searching for the original or even requiring a re-inspection of a licensed facility.
Worse, paper forms can easily get lost or misplaced. If those forms contain sensitive information, a lost form floating out in potentially public view could create information security concerns or even privacy violations.
Mobile inspections in GL Suite save time and reduce mistakes. Inspection results of child care program flow directly into the system from the field, delivering powerful results:
- A faster data collection process
- Improved accuracy
- Better completion through digital prompts to collect required and important information
- Eliminates the risk of paper forms being lost in transit or misplaced
As a child care licensing agency, you rely on your inspectors to gather important facility and provider information. GL Suite offers your agency the mobile inspection tools to support better, faster, more accurate data collection.
With GL Suite’s mobile inspection solution, your inspectors enjoy offline support, and your agency can monitor the status of every inspector at a glance.
Track Numbers of Beds
Tracking the number of beds a licensed child care provider maintains can help an agency to better ensure patient safety and more quickly connect individuals to available providers.
For example, tracking the number of foster children and the number of foster care beds (total and available) helps your agency understand your ability to meet demand and provide care to every child in foster care.
The Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Disability Services uses the GL Suite system to:
- Track residential treatment beds by type, availability, location
- Create business intelligence reports to visually display the number of beds by the service provided and by region, using maps, graphs, and bar charts
By transforming and modernizing your licensing and permitting process using GL Suite, GL Solutions helps you tackle these challenges. We implement a faster, more accurate, more efficient process that improves both your agency’s capacity and the human experience you deliver.
Our step-by-step, hands-on process develops a customized GL Suite implementation that will modernize your agency, transforming your child care licensing process and your ability to serve those who need it most.
Empowering Agencies from Alaska to Connecticut
State agencies from Alaska to Connecticut use GL Suite, GL Solutions’ configurable child care licensing and enforcement SaaS solution to improve processes and outcomes. GL Suite helps agencies:
- Support field inspectors and remote workers
- Interface with databases
- Ensure public safety
- Automate business processes
- Adapt to new safety requirements and child care regulations
Human Services agencies (including departments of behavioral health and departments of children, youth and families) use GL Suite to ensure compliance and the protection of children and the most vulnerable.
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Wisconsin Department of Health Chooses GL Solutions to Modernize Licensing System
Kalispell, Mont. — August 27, 2024 The Wisconsin Department of Health Services has chosen GL Solutions to modernize the Division of Quality Assurance’s licensing, certification and renewal system. The DQA protects and promotes the health, safety and welfare of...