Founded:
10/10/2002
Members: Representatives from the
following States and private sector partners:
Georgia, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Maryland, Minnesota,
New Jersey, Ohio, Rhode Island, Texas, West Virginia,
American Management Systems (AMS), Deloitte Consulting,
Dynamics Research Corporation (DRC), XTRIA, the National
Resource Center for Information Technology in Child Welfare (NRC-ITCW), and the State Information Technology
Consortium (SITC).
Team Structure: Management and Technical
Teams
Management Team
provides the overall governance and structure to sustain
the workgroup’s on-going efforts.
Technical Team
is responsible for research and development of the Child
Welfare XML standards that the Workgroup will pursue.
The Child Welfare XML workgroup welcomes others
from outside the workgroup who may wish to volunteer
their time and expertise in needed areas.
For more information:
Contact:
Website:
www.nrccwdt.org/xml/intro.html |
BACKGROUND
Formed in 2002, the Child Welfare XML (CWXML) Workgroup
represents the national Child Welfare IT data exchange
community and works collaboratively to promote system
interoperability and the efficient transmission of data
among State child welfare agencies and their stakeholders.
A SHARED VISION
The Workgroup envisions a future for Child Welfare data
exchange whereby information, essential to the well
being of children, transports and translates rapidly
through secure channels across geographical and organizational
boundaries to enable the delivery and management of
quality services that can assist children and their
families.
OUR MISSION
To develop and promote the adoption and use of national
non-proprietary Child Welfare XML-based vocabularies
and schemas for representing and exchanging Child Welfare
data across heterogeneous systems and organizations
delivering vital services to children and families.
These national standards will create both business
and IT benefits in terms of increased:
- Staff Effectiveness
- Process Efficiency
- Cost-Effectiveness
SCOPE OF WORK
The creation of national child welfare data definitions
and XML Schemas after identifying and categorizing,
and prioritizing the child welfare data elements
GUIDING PRINCIPLES
- Focus on child welfare data elements by separating
the data/information from the “source”
and exploring all child welfare areas that use this
data
- Ensure that our work is applicable across all States/organizations
in the child welfare arena
- Work to create a set of universally agreed-upon
non-proprietary standards that define vocabularies
for data elements and processes that meet the needs
of Child Welfare (e.g., tool-neutral)
- Promote interoperability with an adaptive approach
able to support a wide variety of applications that
can evolve as technology changes.
- Provide a forum for consensus on the definitions
of Child Welfare business/process, data elements,
and structures
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