{"id":2814,"date":"2017-11-02T06:00:29","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T13:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/industry\/blog\/uncategorized\/empowering-health-and-human-services-helplines\/"},"modified":"2023-05-31T18:01:56","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T01:01:56","slug":"empowering-health-and-human-services-helplines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/healthcare\/2017\/11\/02\/empowering-health-and-human-services-helplines\/","title":{"rendered":"Empowering health and human services helplines"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re honored to work with CharityLogic, makers of iCarol, a helpline software management system. iCarol<\/a> empowers health and human services organizations that provide helpline, information, and referral services to help more people in their community. I recently had the pleasure of sitting down with the co-founders of iCarol, its Chief Technology Officer Neil McKechnie and Chief Executive Officer Jacqueline (Morgan) McKechnie to learn more about how their clients and their clients\u2019 communities are benefiting from the iCarol system.<\/p>\n

What types of clients use your software and who are the people they serve?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Neil:<\/strong> Our clients are health and human services organizations that provide frontline support to help seekers in the general public. They provide helpline, information and referral, crisis, hotline, and warmline services to people who are facing poverty, malnutrition, homelessness, suicidal thoughts, disaster, addiction, and more. It\u2019s a vast spectrum of challenges that humans face. Our clients put up a sign and say we\u2019re here to help you.<\/p>\n

Jacqueline<\/strong>: Well said, Neil. The only thing I can add is that our customers are part of a fabric in the community that serves as a safety net to those in need of help.<\/p>\n

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How can iCarol serve such diverse health and human services organizations?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Neil:<\/strong> Because the workflows in our iCarol system are flexible and customizable, it can support very different organizations serving people with different needs in different geographies.<\/p>\n

Jacqueline<\/strong>: We can offer robust, scalable solutions that work for our smaller clients that have one helpline service taking a few hundred to thousands of calls per year\u2014like Paws to Listen in the United Kingdom, which helps grieving cat owners deal with their loss or a local crisis line like Illinois Domestic Violence Hotline\u2014to larger clients that have a network of helplines located across a state or throughout the country, taking millions of calls per year\u2014like the state of Texas, which addresses a range of health and human services needs.<\/p>\n

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How does your software improve your customers\u2019 service delivery?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Neil:<\/strong> Three key ways are:<\/p>\n