Group home administrators are managing child placements in Excel.
Not as a stopgap. As the system.
One spreadsheet per facility. No shared visibility across locations. Incident reports filed manually, sometimes days late. Compliance deadlines tracked in someone’s inbox.
This is how sensitive case records for youth in residential care get managed in 2025.
The stakes aren’t low. A missed incident report triggers a licensing violation. A bed count error means a child gets placed in an over-capacity facility. Discharge data that lives in a local file means no one sees patterns across the portfolio.
I built Beacon Census because this problem deserved real infrastructure.
Real-time occupancy across every facility. Automated compliance reporting through a direct API integration. A centralized record for every placement, incident, and discharge outcome – searchable, auditable, live.
Not a workaround. A purpose-built platform for the people doing the hardest operational work in child welfare.
Building in public. More soon.
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