Blog posts by Andrew Clarke

One of our requirements for CiviCase was a higher degree of security than what is normally associated with a community website. Users reach our CiviCase implementation via https, which is great, but leaves open the whole password issue. Those of you who live in the corporate IT world will be familiar with the two-factor ID solutions that are available on the market, from RSA, CryptoCard, and maybe others.

I was doing some other reading this week, and stumbled across this definition of case management:

The National Association of Social Workers Standards for Social Work Case Management (1995)defines case management as

… a method of providing services whereby the [professional] assesses the needs of the client and the client's family … and arranges, coordinates, monitors, evaluates, and advocates for a package of multiple services to meet the specific client's complex needs. These standards also emphasize interventions at micro-, mezzo- and

As I've said elsewhere, it's been a real pleasure working closely with the CiviCRM team on the CiviCase project. The work we're doing is exciting, and has at least a hope of offering some efficiency to the large number of service providers whose work is organized into "cases", however that term is locally defined.