FAF Software is a customizable, web-based tool designed to meet all the core needs of family strengthening agencies and their front-line teams:
- robust reporting to support program evaluation and funder needs
- reliable, comprehensive assessment of family functioning
- tracking of demographics, contacts, client sessions and referrals
- strength-based and client-focused service planning
Integrating FAF into family support programs ultimately helps practitioners develop meaningful service plans and agencies to monitor program outcomes more effectively.
Features
Research-Validated Family Assessment
FAF’s integrated family functioning assessment has been validated through research to have high reliability and validity; that means:
- More accurate evaluations
- Better data to guide program improvement
- More informed and better prioritized client service-planning
The reliability and validity of the tool has been proven and documented in multiple publications.
Powerful Reports
Powerful reporting and analysis features include:
- Pre-post comparison graphs
- Ability to analyze data by site, program, family functioning criteria
- Demographics, Referral and Closing Summary reports
- Supervisory caseload management reports
- And much more!
User-Friendly
Powerful reporting and analysis features include:
- Pre-post comparison graphs
- Ability to analyze data by site, program, family functioning criteria
- Demographics, Referral and Closing Summary reports
- Supervisory caseload management reports
- And much more!
Customizable
Easily customizable by internal agency staff
- No costly and time-consuming extra programing required
- Customization support also available from FAF team
Strength-Based Goal Planning
Unique strength-based service planning feature simplifies and improves goal development
- Strength-based framework integrates both strengths and risk factors into service planning
- Interface makes goal prioritization more efficient and responsive
- Documenting client goals and service plans has never been easier
Supports Protective Factors
FAF aligns with the Protective Factors:
- Research has demonstrated that the FAF assessment can be used to measure and capture the five Protective Factors:
- Parental Resilience
- Social Connections
- Concrete Support in Times of Need
- Knowledge of Parenting and Child Development
- Social and Emotional Competence of Children
- FAF’s service planning and case management features help build on and strengthen protective factors
- See how FAF captures the five Protective Factors HERE
Why FAF?
FAF Software is a division of Children’s Bureau of Southern California who has earned a GOLD SEAL, the highest seal of transparency by GuideStar
FAF Software is a recognized family assessment tool by the Office of Child Abuse Prevention CA Department of Social Services as mentioned in Vehicles for Change, Volume II. The Evolving Field
FAF Software helps the LA County Perinatal & Early Childhood Home Visitation Consortium meet one of its five-year strategic goals: ‘Collect data to understand, support and demonstrate collective impact.’
FAF Software is a recognized family assessment tool by Child Welfare Information Gateway, a service of the Children’s Bureau, Administration for Children and Families and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
FAF Software is a recognized family assessment tool by ALIGN, Association of Community Services, Alberta, Canada
FAF Software is a recognized family assessment tool by the State of Georgia
(See assessments and screening instruments section, page 20
FAF Software is a recognized family assessment tool by The California Evidence Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare
