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A discussion with four states who have chosen different approaches for their child welfare information technology projects, each with a unique story to tell about their experience. State panelists discuss their key drivers, considerations for staffing and capacity needs, impacts to their states’ child welfare business process, and lessons learned.

This Program Instruction (PI) provides state and tribal title IV-E agencies (agencies) guidance and describes the documentation requirements an agency must complete to maintain compliance with CCWIS requirements while evaluating new child welfare business processes, tools, or information technologies through pilots.

This Information Memorandum (IM) provides agencies with information on contracting and procurement practices that promote increased participation by small businesses owned by members of disadvantaged, underserved, and marginalized communities in solicitations to develop a CCWIS.

This Information Memorandum (IM) provides introductory information to title IV-E tribes that choose to develop and implement an automated Child Welfare Information System. This IM contains information about how an automated system can support a tribal title IV-E agency’s child welfare program, implementing and maintaining systems, title IV-E funding, and the Comprehensive Child Welfare Information System (CCWIS).

The CCWIS Midyear — Open Discussion Webinar addressed the status of CCWIS issues, new Q&As, and the upcoming priorities of the Children’s Bureau, Division of State Systems (DSS). The webinar was not recorded.

CCWIS Contracting and Procurement Part Two Webinar is the second installment of a 2-part webinar series which covered strategies regarding Acquisition approach (e.g., Agile, performance-based contracting, “. . .as a Service”), Drafting statements of work and the definition of “done,” Customization versus configuration, Intellectual property (IP) and, Contract language around warranties and IP. 

This technical bulletin provides title IV-E agencies that develop a comprehensive child welfare information system (CCWIS) with information about technical assistance, self-assessment tools, and monitoring reviews.

This webinar described the CCWIS Design Requirements and preliminary work on the CCWIS Design Requirements and Self-Assessment Tool.  It included a description of the "conformance indicators" and a "scoring methodology" used to assess CCWIS design.  The webinar then described the Children's Bureau's process for conducting pilots and improving the tool, and it concluded with a discussion of the lessons learned from the pilots to date.

This webinar described best practices as you develop your CCWIS procurement approach and prepare to manage vendor contracts. Our goal was to provide contracting strategies to strengthen CCWIS projects and overall contract management. Participants were encouraged to share their own lessons learned and contract management practices.

This webinar described the Division of State Systems' federal automated function repository called “Child welfare SoftWare and Artifacts Pool (C-SWAP)”, and its new feature, the State Technology Profile. The webinar covered the regulatory background of C-SWAP, benefits of C-SWAP, uploading of software to C-SWAP, and completing the State Technology Profile.