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This technical assistance toolkit provides guidance to courts and child welfare agencies to assist and support the creation of automated, bi-directional (two-way) data exchanges between their respective information systems.
This technical bulletin provides title IV-E agencies that choose to develop a Comprehensive Child Welfare Information System (CCWIS) with information on a modular design approach and guidance on the assessment of modular design during the CCWIS automated function review.
The FRU can generate a report that provides an overview of the number and type of raw responses being generated for a particular data element to help title IV-E agencies assess and improve data quality.
This Program Instruction (PI) provides information to States and Tribes concerning changes regarding the APD waiver process within the Federal regulations at 45 CFR 95, and offers guidance when requesting a waiver to use a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) software product designed for the Title IV-E or Title IV-B programs.
This Program Instruction (PI) provides guidance for approval of a new form for reporting quarterly financial information on the title IV-E Foster Care, Adoption Assistance and Guardianship Assistance Programs.
This Program Instruction (PI) provides instruction on National Youth in Transition Database (NYTD) reporting in a statewide automated child welfare information system (SACWIS) environment.
This technical bulletin (TB) provides guidance to States on system issues related to the collection and reporting of information on caseworker visits with children in foster care.
This webinar, part of the Children's Bureau's Division of State Systems' (DSS) Back to Basics Series, will discuss the end user engagement and participation in system implementation, responsiveness and enhancement; help desk best practices and user documentation.
This webinar, sponsored by the Children's Bureau's Division of State Systems, was the first webinar in the FY2014 Back to Basics: Procurement and Project Management series. This webinar examined how to write a good business requirement statement and then how to test the soundness of that statement against a definitive list of characteristics.
Delaware’s FOCUS project uses a hybrid Agile approach that incorporates Agile practices while keeping within the parameters of typical fixed-scope projects. The FOCUS project is driven by engaged stakeholders, a consistent emphasis on scope, and disciplined monitoring of plans and progress.