Does anyone have any advice on how to handle children that come with multipal families?
Example: Jimmy comes with Bob & Sally week one. Jimmy comes with Dan & Laura the next week. So now Jimmy is in there twice under 2 families, non of which are his actual parents.
Right now we have been merging the duplicates into the most recent family that brought them, but now are running into the issue that they come back with "Bob & Sally" and our check-in team creates them again.
I'm not sure if the answer is to leave the duplicates, (Keep in mind that we check-in around 40-50 "new/visiting" children each week) if we just leave these kids in each family they come with we'll have tons of duplicates.
I tried to find an answer, but non of them really answered the multipal family question. They recommending setting up new households for each of these kids, and that doesn't really solve the issue at check-in. The check-in team will either recreate them within the family they came with or the parent will get 2 receipts, one to pick up their children and then one for the visitor. This of course slows down the check-in time since they'll have to do it seperatly. ANY ADVICE PLEASE? =)
Thanks!
Rachel
Rachel Curtiss
F1 Champion
Church of the Highlands
Birmingham, AL