Features

Track everything you need to make data driven-decisions with our Head Start data management software! Here are just a few of our software features:

Want to learn more of what ChildPlus has to offer?

Dashboard

The Dashboard was built to help keep you on top of your agency’s statistical data – without compiling a stack of reports. With these statistics, you can ensure your agency is always improving and meeting your agency’s goals as well as the Head Start standards. Instead of using multiple reports, the Dashboard utilizes visual graphs and charts, which makes it easy to distinguish areas needing improvement.

With the Dashboard, you will have access to a variety of statistical data, including:

Enrollment Data
Easily discover full enrollment measures, including percentages of funded slots, your percentage of waitlisted children, recent turnover rates of participants who have dropped your program within the last 30 days, cumulative turnover rate, and more.

Eligibility Data
Effortlessly determine eligibility data, such as the percentage and number of participants who are foster children, homeless, plus families with income that is both below and above 100%, are over the income requirements, and more.

Attendance Data

Tracking attendance data has never been easier. Track the percentages of both funded and actual attendance by month-to-date, year-to-date, and last month until the present day. Also view chronic absences, unexcused absences, tardies, and much more to stay on top of attendance trends.

Health Data
Efficiently determine your health data with expert data tracking. View 30-45-90 day health requirements, participants who obtained health coverage, health requirements that are expiring soon, medical treatment needed and received, and much more!

CLASS^© Data
Stay on top of your CLASS© Infant, Pre-K, and Toddler data. Track the average score for the Responsive Caregiving domain for all infant CLASS© observations, the Emotional Support domain for Pre-K CLASS© observations, the Engaged Support for Learning for toddler CLASS© observations, and even more.

CLASS^©

Always be prepared for program reviews by being able to consistently monitor the quality of your teacher-child interactions. In 2011, The Office of Head Start (OHS) adopted the CLASS^© measure to assess teacher-child interactions and further improve child outcomes. Switching to ChildPlus means you can make data-driven decisions to keep improving child outcomes.

With ChildPlus, administrators always have access to this critical scoring and reporting system, which can lead to teacher improvement. This fully-integrated scoring and reporting system provides graphs and reports that instantly show your teacher’s strengths and weaknesses.

With CLASS^©, users can:

• Record the date, reviewer, classroom, teacher, and scores of CLASS^© observations;
• Configure their internal goals to ensure they’re meeting their agency’s standards;
• Enter scores for up to six observation cycles, with ChildPlus automatically calculating and storing cycle averages;
• Keep an electronic paper trail for all cycle observations;
• Use the collected data to plan strategies and trainings for staff to improve their problem areas for OHS compliance and tracking; and
• Use reports to monitor and analyze scores across their centers.

Module Designer

With ChildPlus’s Module Designer, you no longer have to keep track of spreadsheets, forms, checklists, and more. Your agency can completely customize your own data entry screens right in your ChildPlus database. Take your agency further by tracking much more than just your Head Start children’s personal information.

Create custom data entry screens, including entire modules, forms, checklists, surveys, worksheets, and even more, to track agency-specific information all in one place!

ChildPlus’s Head Start data management software also offers pre-made modules that you can completely customize yourself so you don’t have to start from scratch. The pre-made modules were created as a starting point for popular data entry screen requests that often require customization.

Here’s just some of our pre-made modules to choose from:

• Policy Council
• Pre-enrollment Checklist
• Allergy Plan
• Incident Report
• Nutrition Assessment
• Employment Requirements
• Performance Evaluation

Email & Text Parents

Quickly email and text parents without leaving your ChildPlus database. With our LiveMessage feature, you can compose a message to send to parents, then choose if you’d like it sent as a text, email, or both!

Easily create reusable email and text message templates to streamline the way you communicate with your parents. You have the option to choose from a sample email message ChildPlus has already built for you or build your own customized email. You can even add information from your ChildPlus database, photos, tables, hyperlinks, and more to your messages – all from ChildPlus.

You can also send emails and texts to multiple parents at once to save you time.

Here are some things you could email and text to parents:

• Upcoming Center Events & Reminders
• Center Closings
• Parent-Teacher Conferences
• Missing Paperwork
• Health clinic announcements
• Job fairs
• Parent education class announcements
• And more

Online Application

The ChildPlus application entry screen was designed to save you time. When you switch to ChildPlus, you have the ability to enter all family members from one screen. Never again click through screen after screen just to input information on a single family.

You can even create a custom online application that better fits your agency’s needs. Attach your custom application to your website and social media so parents can apply online – leaving you a lot less information to input yourself during family interviews.

With ChildPlus’s online application module, you can:

• Customize your agency’s Online Application with data elements, colors, content, and logos;
• Enable and customize a Spanish version if your agency serves Spanish-speaking families;
• Enter all family members from a single screen;
• Allow parents and guardians to upload documents such as employment verifications, birth certificates, immunization records, and insurance cards;
• Request copies of documents through a unique link;
• Provide access to the Online Application through your agency’s website, social media platforms, or send the link in an email.

Family Outcomes

Our customizable Family Outcomes module ensures children are ready for kindergarten by tracking all Family Engagement Outcomes throughout the school year. With this crucial module, agencies can track family assessments and determine where families’ goals are being met, and where improvements could be made.

ChildPlus tracks preliminary, midyear, end of year, and total gains throughout the year for all aspects of family outcomes. Our Family Engagement Outcomes tab is built-in to ChildPlus and comes with pre-loaded family assessment forms. However, if your agency prefers a custom assessment, ChildPlus allows full customization.

With powerful reports that keep track of your Family Outcomes data for you, ChildPlus makes tracking this crucial data easy and adaptable.

With our Family Outcomes module, users can:

• Set up and configure your own family assessment instruments, or choose from the ones we’ve already built into ChildPlus;
• Ensure families are being assessed in a timely fashion;
• Easily identify areas where your agency can assist each family;
• Use reports and graphs to see each family’s assessment results and gains during the school year (you can record up to 3 assessments per school year); and
• Determine your program’s impact on each family.

Attendance Tracking

Taking attendance in ChildPlus is easy with many flexible options that promote compliance with OHS Performance Standards. From entering attendance to determining unexpectedly absent children, ChildPlus has the tools you need for your Head Start agency. Attendance and meal counts can be tracked in ChildPlus using Entry Express, Attendance Scanning, or the Attendance App.  The two methods that provide the most flexibility with little to no-contact are Attendance Scanning and the Attendance App.

With the Attendance Scanning, you can:

• Create a no-contact check-in/check-out kiosk for your parents;
• Print IDs for children from ChildPlus then attach them to the children’s bag or leave them at the front desk to scan as the children enter or leave your agency;
• Scan the barcode on the ID card to record the exact times that the child arrives and leaves; and
• Scan the ID cards to track meals for each child.

NOTE: If your agency uses ChildPlus Online, you can use the camera of your mobile device to take attendance and record meal counts.

With the ChildPlus Attendance App, that is available to download for your mobile device, you can:

• Take real-time, electronic attendance so you will know which children are absent sooner;
• Save paper by allowing teachers to use their phone or tablet, such as the iPad, iPhone, Kindle Fire, or Android;
• Save time by allowing parents or guardians to enter their child’s attendance for you by signing their child in/out, providing you with an electronic signature of who checked in/out each child daily.