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PI-10-05

April 8, 2010

This Program Instruction (PI) provides guidelines for conducting pilots in a Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information System (SACWIS) environment.

PI-09-11

September 17, 2009

This Program Instruction (PI) provides guidance on the Federal Information Technology Policy – Conditions for Federal financial participation (FFP) for Tribal Automated Information Technology Projects including Tribal Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information Systems (SACWIS).

This technical assistance document provides guidance to title IV-E agencies about engaging and involving youth in foster care and young adults formerly in foster care (youth and young adults) in the design and development of child welfare information systems, websites, or applications. In addition, the document discusses overcoming barriers with identifying and engaging youth and young adults in the software development process.

This state panel discussion, featuring Alabama, District of Columbia, and Wisconsin, discussed sharing child welfare and education data to improve practice and outcomes. Panelists shared the history of their exchanges along with future visions for their exchanges. In addition, panelists discussed the lessons learned from building relationships between child welfare agencies and education agencies and developing data exchanges between them. The panel included several question and answer sessions throughout the presentation.

In order for a child welfare case management system to be called a SACWIS/TACWIS, it must comply with Federal requirements. This PowerPoint describes these Federal requirements.

IM-12-06

August 1, 2012

This Information Memorandum (IM) requests information for Locate Services, Referrals, and Electronic Interface between Child Welfare and Child Support Information Systems.

ACF-OA-PI-13-01

June 11, 2013

This Program Instruction (PI) provides information for states and tribes who request FFP for costs associated with an automated data processing project covering one or more of the human services programs established by the Social Security Act. This addresses the use of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software applications by these agencies, including purchased, leased and hosted proprietary software products and software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications.

Through the webinar series, “Back to Basics,” the Division of State Systems within the Children’s Bureau is offering a venue for information sharing and discussion. The fifth webinar of the series, “The Impact of Development Methodologies, Software Frameworks and Platform Choices on Release Management,” reviews the ways in which these different elements impact software release.

Writing and Evaluating an RFP

Webinar
January 30, 2014

This webinar provided a vendor's perspective on how they interpret State RFP's and what factors go into a Bid/No Bid decision.

The Children's Bureau hosted a state panel from the previous cloud computing webinar held on September 5, 2018 for a follow-up discussion. The previous webinar on implementing a cloud computing strategy for child welfare information systems received very positive feedback and while it provided valuable information, there was insufficient time to fully explore all the issues.