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This letter from the Administration on Children, Youth and Families provides guidance to child welfare leaders about recent and upcoming policies regarding educational stability for children in foster care.
This webinar's presenters include Mike Lindsay, senior technical specialist at ICF International and long-time HUD consulting partner, and Gerry Leslie, project director, Michigan Coalition Against Homelessness. Mike will discuss the use of data quality plans associated with HMIS with additional input from Michigan staff who use Michigan’s Statewide HMIS (MSHMIS). An important goal of the MSHMIS Project is to inform both local and statewide public policy about the extent and nature of homelessness.
This webinar will explore address validation processes and tools. Learn how Texas and California approached the challenges of address validation in their respective child welfare case management systems. Speakers will discuss how millions of addresses were standardized, what decisions were made, what problems were encountered and how they were solved, interface considerations, cost issues, tools used, lessons learned, and future system considerations.
U.S. Departments of Education (ED) and Health and Human Services (HHS) provided this joint guidance as a key tool for educational and child welfare agencies to use as they embark on establishing new partnerships and implementing the new provisions of the law.
This webinar will examine the experience of Maryland’s child welfare agencies and the data standards challenges they face, from counting child protective services and in-home cases, to counting children in out-of-home care, and to assuring that their Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information System is meeting minimum data standards for Federal reporting (i.e., the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System, the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System, caseworker visitation, and the National Youth in Transition Database). But among all of Maryland's challenges, none have been more daunting than client identification and establishing basic interagency interfaces.