We are excited to share the latest enhancements to Binti! This month’s updates bring a range of enhancements aimed at improving the way we capture data about applicant demographics, reducing load times, and other improvements to Binti. Refer to our full release notes for additional detail and screenshots where applicable.

📊 Race & Ethnicity Data Collection Improvements

To simplify demographic reporting for your agency, Binti is updating how race and ethnicity data is collected to align with federal standards. Previously, race and ethnicity were combined into a single question. Moving forward, this information will be gathered through two separate questions:

1. Are you/Is this person of Hispanic or Latino origin?
2. What is your/this person’s race?

These updated questions will appear throughout Binti wherever race and ethnicity are collected, including for both children and adults. The images below depict the existing and new interface. Additional sub-selections (i.e. additional ancestry information) are available under each option. 

Your historical data has been automatically migrated as of today, Wednesday, April 9, 2025. For more details, please visit our Help Center, or contact support@binti.com with any questions. 

Existing Interface

New Interface

🚀 Enhancements

• Family Finding & Engagement The Family Finding Searches dashboard now loads faster, ensuring a smooth user experience.
• Family Finding & Engagement Placement Options within Family Finding’s relationship details now support enhanced detail to improve clarity and decision-making. Agency workers can now specify whether a child’s connection is recommended for placement or for placement consideration. Additionally, several sections now include open-text fields, allowing workers to provide additional context about placement options.
  
  
  
   
• Caregiver Management "Emergency Placement" has been added as a placement search reason, allowing agency workers to indicate the reason for their search with greater specificity.  
• Caregiver Management "Transitional Housing Program and Foster Care" has been added as placement option, allowing agency workers to indicate the reason for the placement of a child.  

🔧 Fixes

• When a supporting document expires, notifications will only be sent for requirements on the currently active template. Previously, email notifications were sent for old templates no longer in use.

The fixes listed below apply only to customers with Caregiver Documents 2.0.

• All available case notes now display when accessed via the Universal Search page for caregivers with a household role switch. Previously, not all case notes would display. 
• When changing an application to Out-of-County (sending), the Documents page loads as expected. Previously, agencies could encounter an error.
• In instances where an applicants' role is changed twice, case notes remain editable. Previously, case notes could become uneditable in certain circumstances. 

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We are thrilled to announce that Binti is introducing an improved navigation experience. By reducing the number of menus, we have made the interface more intuitive and created room for upcoming new features. Furthermore, we have refined our terminology to provide clearer descriptions for each page. We now use people-centric language, such as "Caregivers" instead of "Applications."

The rollout of these improvements has already begun and is set to be completed at the beginning of October. Your agency will receive official communication from Binti specifying the exact date when the new navigation bar will become active.

Learn more and try an interactive demo in our Help Center

Data security is a priority at Binti. We are excited to introduce a new way to help protect your data: Multi-factor authentication (MFA) at login for agency workers.

MFA helps protect user accounts from unauthorized access by requiring a unique code during the login process. This makes it more difficult for attackers to gain access to accounts, even if they have obtained a password. Binti can deliver unique codes to a work email address or cell phone. At this time, MFA is enabled agency-wide, meaning that all agency workers are required to use it once activated.

Please note that Binti continues to offer support for Single Sign-On (SSO). Due to the increased security that it provides, we prioritize enabling SSO over MFA when possible. SSO and MFA cannot be used simultaneously.

Learn more in our Help Center and contact your Customer Success Manager to enable this feature today!