CRIS Coordinator & Partner Toolkit
for Early Childhood Home Visiting Provider Recruitment
These materials were produced by the Children’s Trust Fund in partnership with Promise 1000, Generate Health, Whole Kids Outreach, Brighter Beginnings, and Family Focused Network. These materials are free to download and use and are intended to help our Home Visiting Collective Impact & Regional CRIS Networks recruit providers to their Regional CRIS Systems and continue extending services to families who need them.
- What is the Missouri Home Visiting Referral System?
- The Missouri Home Visiting Referral System is a web-based platform that makes it easy to refer a family to home visiting services anywhere in the state through one of five regional coordinated referral & intake system (CRIS) networks.Each regional CRIS network is managed by a state-funded home visiting collective impact site and includes a variety of home visiting programs and models in its specific service area.
- What is a Regional CRIS Network?
- CRIS stands for Coordinated Referral & Intake System, which is an online database for anyone in a specific region to submit a home visiting referral and for partnering agencies to manage referrals and intake all in one place.
- What are the benefits of the Missouri Home Visiting Referral System?
- There are so many benefits to using the statewide CRIS, including easy and organized data, technical assistance and training, and capacity building! Learn more at https://ctf4kids.org/cris-start-a-referral/
- What about my other referral partners?
- Joining and using the Missouri Home Visiting Referral System does not exclude you from working with other referral partners. If you have relationships and agreements with other referral networks, you can maintain these while also incorporating Missouri’s Home Visiting Referral System, as applicable.
- How do I join?
- Join our growing network of home visiting providers across Missouri. Visit https://ctf4kids.org/cris-start-a-referral/ to be linked to the regional CRIS coordinator in your area.
- How do I make a referral?
- When you scan the QR code below, you will be taken to the Missouri Home Visiting Referral Network landing page. From there you can select your county to find out who the Regional CRIS Coordinator in your region is.
- Anyone can make a referral through Missouri’s Home Visiting Referral System by submitting an online form through the CRIS referral network in your region. Once the referral is submitted, the regional CRIS assigns the family to a home visiting program based on the family’s needs and eligibility, and the program’s capacity.
The assigned home visiting agency then contacts the family to tell them more about their program and offer services.
- What if my agency reaches capacity?
- Can’t accept any more referrals? You can turn off referrals to manage capacity and turn them back on when you’re ready.
- Free training & technical assistance
- Need help learning new software or collecting certain metrics? Contact your Regional CRIS Coordinator for assistance!
- Helpful, collaborative network
- Join a network of other regional providers you can collaborate with, communicate with, and learn from.
- Coverage, eligibility, and services
- Details like coverage, eligibility requirements, and service areas are hard to keep track of on top of the many other roles home visitors must play to help families. Let the Regional CRIS database check the boxes so YOU can do the work you do best.
- It’s free and easy to use
- The best part? It’s FREE and easy to join. Learn more at https://ctf4kids.org/cris-start-a-referral/
- Data collection, sharing, and reporting
- Data collection, sharing, and reporting made easy! Need specific data metrics measured? CRIS programming makes it easy to track, organize, and report the metrics that matter to you!