Operation Chrysalis
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Chrysalis is a powerful tool designed to support the McKinney-Vento liaison and all stakeholders in ensuring the safety and academic success of students experiencing homelessness. By enabling real-time tracking of a child's status, Chrysalis helps maintain continuity and stability despite the frequent moves these students face. On average, a child experiencing housing insecurity relocates three times per year, leading to the loss of critical records and documentation. Chrysalis serves as a secure repository for this information, facilitating the seamless data transfer from one student information system (SIS) to another in real-time. Research highlights McKinney-Vento liaisons' challenges in communicating and coordinating with key stakeholders who provide services and support to their students. Furthermore, school faculty and staff are often unaware of their students' homelessness, exacerbating communication difficulties and contributing to academic struggles. Chrysalis effectively addresses these challenges by streamlining communication and ensuring that all relevant parties are informed and connected. This comprehensive approach allows stakeholders to collaborate more efficiently, providing the necessary support for students experiencing homelessness to thrive academically and remain safe.
Protecting our Children
We hold our children's safety in our hands. During COVID-19, more than 400,000 students experiencing homelessness went missing, and most likely, most will never be found, according to the Hechinger Report. That represents 20% of ALL students experiencing homelessness in America. Further, the government has no way of tracking children crossing the border unaccompanied. Accurate statistics do not exist on how many children are coming through the United States border or where they end up. Organizations like Polaris (https://polarisproject.org/) and Our Rescue (https://ourrescue.org/) suspect that many of these innocent lives end up in child trafficking. Both Polaris and Our Rescue note that a global business network preys on our American children and children coming across the border in this multi-billion dollar industry.
Features
Chrysalis connects all stakeholders responsible for the student's academic and personal well-being. The intuitive platform serves as a repository for all the student's important documents, testing, and records. Most importantly, Chrysalis nurtures communications so that NO CHILD EVER GETS LOST in the system.
Communications
Research indicates one of the most signficant protective factors in protecting students experiencing housing insecurity is communications among all stakeholders. ONE missed communication can mean life or death for these children. Chrysalis' addresses this critical issue with its robust communications platform. Chrysalis fosters communication among all stakeholders involved in the care of students experiencing housing insecurity. Chrysalis includes built-in communication tools such as messaging, email, and video conferencing, which facilitate efficient and effective communication among stakeholders. Chrysalis can schedule and document meetings, track follow-up actions, and maintain a communication history for each student and family. These enhanced communication tools foster collaboration, ensuring that all relevant parties are informed and connected. This collaborative approach is essential in addressing the multifaceted needs of students experiencing homelessness, providing them with a network of support that works together to enhance their well-being and academic success.
Collaboration
Chrysalis is designed to bring together a diverse network of stakeholders, including case workers, social workers, teachers, school administrators, healthcare providers, and community organizations. By centralizing information and providing real-time updates, Chrysalis ensures that all parties are on the same page and can work together efficiently. This unified effort creates a robust support system where each stakeholder can contribute their expertise and resources, addressing the multifaceted needs of the child. The platform includes built-in communication tools such as messaging, email, and video conferencing, which facilitate seamless interaction among stakeholders. These tools allow for regular check-ins, collaborative planning, and quick responses to emerging issues. By fostering open and continuous communication, Chrysalis helps stakeholders stay connected and informed, preventing any gaps in support or misunderstandings that could negatively impact the child.Chrysalis revolutionizes case management by enabling stakeholders to create, update, and monitor individualized support plans for each student. These Personalized Education Plans (PEPs) tailor support based on each student's unique needs, ensuring targeted and effective interventions. PEPs provide a comprehensive overview of a student's academic performance, learning needs, health and wellness, and housing situation, integrating data from various sources for a complete picture. Chrysalis simplifies the creation and management of PEPs, making it easy for stakeholders to collaborate and keep plans up to date. This personalized approach is crucial for addressing the specific challenges faced by students experiencing homelessness, ensuring they receive the necessary resources and support for both academic and personal growth. By setting goals, tracking progress, and documenting interventions, Chrysalis provides a clear roadmap for each student's success. Chrysalis' advanced reporting and analytics capabilities provide stakeholders with insights into trends, outcomes, and areas needing improvement. By using these data-driven insights, stakeholders can make informed decisions and continuously refine their strategies to better support students experiencing housing insecurity.
CRM
A CRM is an invaluable tool in business and industry. Chrysalis tailors what originally was designed for the workforce for serving our most vulnerable population. Chrysalis' CRM bridges the information gap experienced between multiple agencies, schools, families, shelters, caregivers, and all stakeholders. At the heart of this specialized CRM is a robust and secure centralized database that maintains detailed profiles of all stakeholders involved in the care of students experiencing homelessness. This includes school administrators, McKinney-Vento liaisons, teachers, counselors, bus drivers, social workers, healthcare providers, community organizations, housing authorities and everyone who could potentially protect this child. By centralizing this information, the CRM bridges the information gap that often exists between these disparate entities. Each stakeholder's profile contains essential details about their role, contact information, services provided, and interactions with students and families. This centralized approach ensures that all parties have access to accurate and up-to-date information, facilitating better coordination and decision-making. Chrysalis tracks this information in real-time ensuring timely interventions. Students experiencing homelessness frequently move, leading to the potential loss of critical records and disruption in their support services. On average, these students relocate three times per year, which complicates the maintenance of accurate and comprehensive records. The specialized CRM addresses this issue by enabling real-time data tracking of students' status, including changes in housing situations, academic progress, and health records. With real-time tracking, stakeholders receive automatic alerts and notifications about critical changes or needs, ensuring timely interventions and support. This feature is crucial in maintaining continuity and stability in the students' lives, which is essential for their academic and personal development.
Repository
Maintaining accurate and comprehensive records for students experiencing housing insecurity is crucial for students' stability and success. Students experiencing housing insecurity often face frequent relocations, averaging three moves per year, which can lead to the loss of essential documents and disrupt their educational continuity. Critical records such as birth certificates, academic testing results, benchmarking data, immunization records, and physical health reports are vital for providing consistent care and support. Without these documents, students may face delays in enrollment, gaps in their education, and inadequate access to necessary services. Chrysalis solves this problem by acting as a secure, centralized repository for all essential student records and documents. This means that parents and guardians never have to worry about losing vital documentation during frequent moves. With Chrysalis, important records are stored safely and follow the child wherever they go, ensuring that these documents are always accessible. School administrators can instantly access necessary information without waiting for the transfer of records, facilitating smooth transitions and uninterrupted support for the student's educational journey. This ensures that students experiencing housing insecurity can maintain their academic progress and receive the consistent care they need, regardless of their circumstances.
AI
Chrysalis incorporates a robust alarm system known as the Red Bell, which plays a critical role in safeguarding students experiencing housing insecurity. This alarm system leverages advanced AI technology to detect dangerous situations or crucial tasks that may have fallen through the cracks, potentially impacting the child's well-being. When the AI identifies a potential issue, the Red Bell rings, alerting all stakeholders immediately. The Red Bell serves as an essential checks and balances mechanism for all stakeholders, ensuring that no critical detail goes unnoticed. Whether it's a missed medical appointment, a gap in academic support, or an unreported change in the child's living situation, the Red Bell ensures that every potential risk is flagged. All stakeholders—teachers, case workers, social workers, and administrators—are instantly notified when the alarm sounds. This prompt notification system allows for quick intervention and coordination, as stakeholders can immediately notify the child's liaison to address the issue and ensure the student's safety. By providing a reliable and proactive alert system, Chrysalis ensures that the network of support around each student remains vigilant and responsive. The Red Bell not only helps in maintaining the child's safety but also reinforces the collaborative effort required to support students experiencing housing insecurity effectively. This feature underscores Chrysalis' commitment to creating a secure, supportive, and responsive environment for these vulnerable students, ensuring that their needs are met promptly and comprehensively.
SIS & LMS Integrations
Chrysalis is specifically designed to smoothly integrate with all Student Information Systems (SIS) and Learning Management Systems (LMS). This ensures that important data can flow seamlessly between different platforms and schools. This integration is particularly crucial for maintaining accurate and consistent records for students experiencing housing insecurity, as they often undergo frequent relocations and school changes. By connecting with various SIS and LMS platforms, Chrysalis addresses common issues related to transferring student records, such as delays and data loss. When a student transfers to a new school or district, Chrysalis ensures that their academic records, health information, and personalized education plans (PEPs) are instantly accessible. This means that essential documents like birth certificates, academic testing results, immunization records, and physical health reports are always up-to-date and readily available, providing students with a sense of scurity and peace of mind. The seamless integration with SISs and LMSs guarantees that school staff are always in control, without interruptions in the student's education due to missing records or lengthy transfer processes. They can immediately access all necessary information to provide appropriate support and resources, allowing the student to transition smoothly and continue their education without delay. This capability is particularly vital for students experiencing housing insecurity, as it helps to provide a stable and consistent educational experience despite the challenges they face, instilling confidence in the school staff. Chrysalis' integration with SIS supports real-time updates and data synchronization, ensuring that any changes in a student's status or needs are promptly reflected across all systems. This real-time capability enhances the responsiveness of the support network, allowing for immediate adjustments to the student's education plan and interventions as needed.
Security
Operation Chrysalis provides a safety net, much like a chrysalis, which provides safety to a growing monarch butterfly as it grows. An innovative software program called "Chrysalis" provides a platform for all stakeholders to communicate and collaborate to serve the most marginalized population in America: our children experiencing housing insecurity. This platform operates as a CRM with workflow automation and delivers top-of-the-line project management tools to safeguard the most critical project any organization can undertake: protecting children. Additionally, Chrysalis is equipped with built-in alarms to warn of potential child endangerment. Moreover, it leverages AI to forecast patterns indicating potential danger to a child, offering an added layer of protection. Chrysalis is COPPA, HIPA, and FERPA compliant.