Digitizing Canadian Child & Family Services: Signority’s Impact

Canadian Child & Family Services:

A Digital Transformation

Canadian Child & Family Services:

A Digital Transformation

Digitizing Canadian Child & Family Services: Signority’s Impact

September 26th, 2023

Children represent the future, and families are the cornerstone of our society. In the heart of community resilience and strength lies Child & Family Services organizations. They play an indispensable role in ensuring the safety, health, and overall well-being of our most vulnerable members – our children. Yet, like many sectors with deeply embedded traditional processes, Child & Family Services have often been bound by paper-heavy methods, which can delay vital interventions and take crucial time away from direct service.

Signority: Transforming Child & Family Services with Digital Solutions

Child & Family Services encompass an array of responsibilities, from safeguarding children against harm to providing necessary support to families in crisis. Each interaction, whether it’s an initial intake, assessment, or even volunteer onboarding, requires multiple layers of documentation. Historically, this has meant paper forms, manual logging, and significant administrative overhead.

The Practical Benefits of Signority’s Digital Approach

Streamlined Consent Processes: Child & Family Services often require consent forms for various activities, including medical treatment, counseling, urgent response service plan (URS), and educational support. Signority’s digital signature solution simplifies the process of obtaining and managing these consents. Social workers can send consent forms electronically, and clients or guardians can sign them from anywhere, reducing delays and ensuring that necessary permissions are in place promptly.

Efficient Document Signing: Whether it’s agreements, service contracts, or parental consent forms, Signority enables Child & Family Services to send, receive, and sign documents quickly and securely. This efficiency is vital in situations where time-sensitive decisions must be made to protect the well-being of children and families.

Data Security: Signority hosts Canadian customer data exclusively within Canada. Our platform employs advanced encryption and security measures to safeguard sensitive information. Given that Child & Family Services handle confidential data daily, Signority’s robust security features, including masked tags for data security, guarantee that personal identifiable information (PII) remains confidential and fully compliant with data protection regulations.

Environmental & Cost Savings: By shifting away from paper-based processes, agencies can reduce their reliance on physical documents, saving money on printing, storage, and transportation. Additionally, this eco-friendly approach aligns with the broader societal trend towards sustainability.

Access from Anywhere: Signority’s cloud-based platform allows social workers and professionals to access necessary documents from anywhere with an internet connection. This accessibility ensures seamless service delivery, even when working remotely or in the field.

Efficient Onboarding: For Child & Family Services that rely on volunteers or need to conduct background checks, Signority’s digital signature solution streamlines the onboarding process. Volunteer applications and criminal record checks can be seamlessly integrated, ensuring that the agency has the right people on board quickly and safely.

Audit Trails for Accountability: Signority provides audit trails for every signed document, enhancing accountability and transparency within the organization. This feature is particularly valuable in cases where document validity and compliance are essential.

Faster Response Times: Digital signatures expedite the signing process. Social workers can get the necessary approvals in place swiftly, reducing response times and ensuring that children and families receive the support they need without unnecessary delays.

These benefits underscore how Signority’s digital signature solution is uniquely positioned to meet the needs of Child & Family Services by simplifying administrative tasks, ensuring data security, and enhancing efficiency in a sector where time and accuracy are critical for protecting vulnerable children and families.

Ultimately, the mission is clear. It’s not just about digitization for the sake of modernity. It’s about providing Child & Family Services with the platform they need to do their job more efficiently, so more time and resources can be allocated where they matter most: directly with children and their families.

By leveraging the power of Signority, Child & Family Services organizations can ensure that every child’s story is not just heard but also acted upon with the efficiency, care, and urgency it deserves.

Signority is proud to be a part of this transformative journey, offering solutions that make a tangible difference in the lives of many.

Signority and the Department of National Defence Successfully Completes Trial of eSignature Workflow Solution

Ottawa, ON – September 6th, 2016 – Signority, along with the Department of National Defence (DND), recently completed a successful evaluation of Signority’s eSignature and digital workflow solution.

Signority was awarded a contract with the Federal Government’s 
Build in Canada Innovation Program (BCIP) to work with the Department of National Defence to test and evaluate means to reduce the need for manual paper-based processes thus saving time and money. The trial provided the following key results based on the CP-140 test scenarios

  • Reclaim valuable time by eliminating the need to manually scan and follow-up on paper folders during the AMAF (Aircraft Modification Approval Form) process
  • Completely eliminated paper from the AMAF process
  • Eliminates the requirement to have any hardcopies of documents since the entire process can be delivered digitally
  • Ensure that anyone who needs access to an AMAF can retrieve a digital copy.

Signority looks forward to leveraging this success to work with other organizations who are faced with many of the same challenges attached to paper-based processes.
To learn more about how Signority can help your team to reduce document completion time by up to 80%, digitize your paper-based processes, and remove the need to manually track hard copies of documents please visit www.signority.com, or contact the Signority team at hello@signority.com
 

About Signority Inc.

Signority Inc. is an Ottawa-based SaaS company that is dedicated to make it easy and secure for organizations to legally sign electronic documents. Their platform allows for the management of legal document workflows by offering a digital signature solution to access, verify, sign and certify documents from anywhere in the world, on any device.
 

About the Build in Canada Innovation Program

The Build in Canada Innovation Program (BCIP) helps Canadian companies of all sizes to move their state-of-the-art goods and services from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Through the BCIP, the Government of Canada buys pre-qualified goods and services. The government moves these late-stage research and development innovations to federal departments for testing. After testing, the BCIP provides feedback to suppliers on the performance of their products or services.
Canadian companies often struggle to find first buyers for their untested innovations. Through the BCIP, Canadian companies can sell their pre-qualified innovations to the federal government. The Government of Canada becomes the company’s first reference sale.