This page provides information about membership organizations and training entities that focus on policy, program advocacy, and technical assistance about information technology and child welfare data issues. You also will find resources, such as federal laws, regulations, policies, and guidance, from federal agencies whose work is related to information systems. In addition, this page provides information about organizations that provide IT standards or that offer relevant content about system development, project management, technology innovations, and best practices.
Child Welfare and Human Services Advocacy and Resource Organizations
The following links provide information about membership organizations and training entities that focus on policy, program advocacy, and technical assistance about information technology and child welfare data issues.
Federal Guidance, Agencies, and Initiatives
The following links provide resources from federal agencies whose work is related to information systems.
Laws and regulations:
- Code of Federal Regulations
- Federal Register
- United States Code
- Compilation of the Social Security Laws
- Thomas - Legislative Information (now Congress.gov)
Federal agencies:
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
- National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Federal initiatives of interest:
The following links provide resources from federal agencies whose work is related to information systems.
- HHS Enterprise Architecture
- Health Information Privacy
- Medicaid Information Technology Architecture (MITA)
- National Information Exchange Model (NIEM)
- IV-E to IV-D Case Referral Information Exchange Packet Documentation (IEPD) - This is NIEM-compliant IEPD data exchange from child welfare to child support agencies
- Federal Parent Locator Service (FPLS) State Services Portal (SSP)
Information Technology (IT)
The following links provide information on organizations that provide IT standards or that offer relevant content about system development, project management, technology innovations, data exchanges, and best practices.
- American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
- CERT ® Coordination Center
- Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (SEI)
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
- International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
- National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST)
- The Open Group
- Project Management Institute (PMI)
- Social Security Administration (SSA) Data Exchange
- World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)