Unified Nevada Information Technology for Youth

The Needs Assessment Project Update

The vendor KPMG LLP and DCFS Information Services launched the Needs Assessment project kick off in 2 sessions which are as follows:

  1. Visioning and Guiding Principles Workshop with the Executive Team (Part 1) – May 10th, 2024 @ 1 pm
  2. Workshop’s All-Participants Kick Off Meeting - May 23rd, 2024 @ 10 am.
  3. The second part of the Visioning and Guiding Principles Workshop with the Executive Team was conducted on June 7th, 2024

    DCFS Information Services and vendor KPMG LLP collaborated to gather the project stakeholders from across the state (Washoe, Clark and Rurals).

    As of September 2nd 2024, the following UNITY Needs Assessment Project Workshops have been successfully completed. 

    1. Intake   - Week of May 27th and June 3rd
    2. Assessment - Week of June 10th
    3. Case Management - Week of June 17th and June 24th
    4. Case Review & Med Case Management/Treatment – Week of July 8th
    5. Foster Care Services for App Licensing/Licensing Caseload and Resource Availability – Week of July 15th
    6. Placement Stability & Permanency – Week of July 22nd
    7. Adoption  - Week of July 29th
    8. Court Processing – Week of August 5th
    9. Eligibility – Week of August 12th
    10. Financial/Provider Management/Payment Processing – Week of August 19th
    11. Juvenile Justice (Part 1) – Week of August 26th
    12. Child, Guardians, Parents, Resources & Collateral Profile Management workshop – Week of September 2nd 
    13. Worker Workflows – Week of September 9th 
    14. Security – September 5th 
    15. Data Management and Data Quality – September 11t1h and September 12th 
    16. Forms – September 17th 
    17. Report and Analytics – September 19th 
    18. Interfaces – September 18th

    These workshops focused on:  Examining the current start of the application, envisioning and documenting the future state of the modernized application.  Through these workshops, we aimed to facilitate discussions, gather insights, and document key findings of the application modernization process.

    What’s Next:  Upcoming Workshop Schedule:

    19. Juvenile Justice (Part 2) – Week of December 2nd

     

    The vendor KPMG LLP provided DCFS the following deliverables (Deliverable Expectations Documents (DED) – 1st Draft) related to the Child Welfare Information System which are currently being reviewed by the Stakeholders.

    1. Requirements
    2. Process Flows
    3. Matrix

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