Data and analytics for human services

Unlock the true power of your data

Harnessing the power of automation, data integration and visualization helps human services organizations empower staff with unprecedented insight and efficiency. With data solutions, your staff gets the visibility needed to make effective decisions and increase transparency, keeping your agency stable and strong.

However, seeing the full value of your data can be challenging when you face a complex mix of systems, federal mandates and reporting needs.

Wipfli is ready to help your organization revolutionize how you approach data with our human services data and analytics support. We help you navigate complex data requirements and apply the solutions you need to better track and communicate the story of your impact. And we offer tailored analytics solutions that are designed to grow with your programs, providing insight into how you can empower lasting change in your community.

Why Wipfli?

At Wipfli, we combine data specialization with extensive experience in serving human services organizations.

We not only understand the technology and regulatory challenges you face but also how to meet those challenges head-on. From increasing transparency and compliance to improving services, we can help you leverage data to transform reporting, decision-making and program planning.

How we help

Wipfli’s innovative Head Start analytics solution seamlessly integrates your ChildPlus and other program data into one source for operational and outcomes reporting using Microsoft Power BI. With our dashboards, you’re not just getting an analytics tool — you’re gaining a true collaborator in your mission to serve children and families.

Our Head Start analytics solution collects all your data in one place, giving you a 360-degree view of each child in your programs, from enrollment to family outcomes.

With these dashboards, you can:

Treat your data as an asset: Consolidate and own your program data within an agency database to support quality, current and future reporting, and analytics requirements across compliance, outcomes and operational efficiency.
Save time with customizable, automated reports: Customize Wipfli’s templates to your agency’s specific metrics, reports and visualizations. Our dashboards automate your data and reports, saving you hours and days of time otherwise spent on manual reporting methods that rely on manipulating Excel downloads.
Track board-level reporting to operational reporting using drill-throughs: Track critical enrollment- and attendance-related metrics from the higher program or sites level and drill down to the child level — all in one report.
Enjoy a rich and easy-to-use user experience: Our data visualizations allow you to correlate data across processes and tell your data stories to board members, community and program staff members. Easy visibility allows staff members to access data-driven insights and be more responsive to needs.
Leverage artificial intelligence: Built on Azure with a strong data foundation, Wipfli’s dashboards allow for integration of predictive capabilities, gen AI voice-based data entry, text analytics and forecasting capabilities.
Visualize data in a single view: The platform eliminates the need to flip through multiple compliance systems for individual views of data, helping you make better programmatic decisions.

Reporting

Wipfli’s Head Start reporting solutions are highly customizable and extendable. Reports can include staffing, child and family outcomes, financial reports and more, such as:

Enrollment: Track counts of funded versus enrolled, statuses (enrolled, dropped, completed, waitlisted), transitions from and to programs, and the enrollment pipeline.
Attendance: Track counts/percentages based on absence reasons and chronic absences.
Health requirements and immunizations: Track age group-based reporting of health, dental and immunization assessments, as well as a BMI report for children that categorizes healthy weight, overweight, obese or underweight.
Meals and nutrition: Track meals served (breakfast, lunch, snacks)
360-degree view of a child: View one consolidated report per child that displays family demographics and all the above metrics.
Demographic insights: Understand your clients’ current demographics and community’s needs through visualizations and ArcGIS with poverty line statistics and other key demographics that can help you better plan and assist families.
Sites scorecard: Compare agency sites’ performance based on 10 metrics.

Wipfli understands the complexity human services organizations face in managing data from all the systems you need to meet federal and state reporting requirements. Our team can help you develop a strategy and manage your data — including support for implementing a whole family approach — so that you can build a data-driven culture while maintaining compliance.

Whether you’re integrating case management platforms, aligning with performance metrics or streamlining reporting processes, we can help you turn fragmented data into actionable insights, including services for:

Cloud data management
Data integration
Implementing a data warehouse
iPaaS integration
AI strategy and adoption

We also offer data governance support that can equip your organization with:

Master data management
Metadata management to help ensure data is clean and trustworthy
Established standards for data ownership, lineage and quality
Cybersecurity

Wipfli’s digital team can help you design a scalable database architecture capable of growing with your organization and adapting to evolving community needs. We focus on building a data infrastructure that not only supports your day-to-day operations but also empowers you to tell your story, measure impact and drive meaningful change.

Database strategy and road-mapping

A strong data strategy is the backbone of effective service delivery and impact measurement. At Wipfli, we help human services organizations build a clear, actionable roadmap for their data infrastructure. We work closely with your team to understand your organization so that we can help you develop a strategy that serves your mission, operations and long-term goals.

Centralized intake process and data alignment

Wipfli takes a human-centered design approach to streamline your intake processes and maintain data alignment across programs and departments. We help you identify the processes, tools and strategies that can drive better outcomes. We also help align data collection and reporting to support compliance, funding requirements and strategic decision-making.

Holistic case management design and implementation

Wipfli’s holistic case management solutions are designed to help human services organizations deliver coordinated, compassionate and data-informed programs. By implementing the right case management platform, we can help you reduce your staff’s administrative burden and enhance service delivery. We also support workflow and system designs that align with your program’s requirements and interconnected services.

Core systems integration

Integrating your systems is the first step in gaining real-time access to cross-program insights and performance metrics. Wipfli helps you navigate core system integration with a centralized data warehouse. We support data migration and importation from your systems, focusing on accuracy, integrity and minimal disruption.

What our clients are saying

Ariana Pineda, ERSEA Support 萝莉社官网r at Community Council of Idaho

“Having everything in one place in a report that you can rely on has made a huge difference. We’re very family-based, so we want to make sure we’re providing services to not just the child but also the family as a whole. Being able to pull one report and answer any questions they have or identify other services to support them, helps us retain those families and improve attendance.”

Rebeca Arteaga, Assistant Director at Community Council of Idaho

“I would definitely recommend Wipfli to other Head Starts. They listen to understand, not respond. Their customer service is top notch, and we just felt comfortable sharing feedback with them. That allowed us to work together to customize the solution to be the most helpful for us.”

Hartmuth Csanadi-Schwartz, Director of Operations at The Arc Southern Maryland

“There is a sense of ownership in Arc on Wipfli’s side, which is not easy to come by with vendors. I like their competency. I like their agility. They brought us the missing strategic piece, and they knew what the best solutions were.”

Our team

Anirudh Nadkarni

As a solutions manager in Wipfli’s business intelligence and analytics practice, Anirudh Nadkarni brings a decade of hands-on experience in data and analytics. His responsibilities lie in the architecture, design, and implementation of user-friendly and meaningful analytics solutions that improve clients’ productivity and effectiveness.

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Brian R. Gaumont

Brian Gaumont is a partner within Wipfli鈥檚 nonprofit and government practice. He has over seven years of experience at Wipfli. During this time, Brian has served as an experienced facilitator, working with small and large groups, and specializes in work with grant-funded and community-based nonprofit organizations. His consulting expertise is with organizational development and strategic planning.

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Andrew J. Potasek

Andrew Potasek brings more than 11 years of experience to help our clients in process and design with a focus on Microsoft Dynamics and D365 technologies. Andrew is highly respected for his motivation and flexibility.

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Ryan Peasley

Ryan Peasley is an experienced consultant, advocate , and technology enabler. He has over 15 years of experience working with and planning for technology in regulated industries, helping organizations manage, implement and utilize technology to engage constituents, and customers and achieve organizational goals.