Cúram Software Announces Child Support Enforcement Solution

Automated Solution Streamlines Caseload Processing and Enables Reporting to Improve Child and Family Outcomes

Herndon, Va. – February 3, 2010 – Cúram Software, the leading provider of Social Enterprise Management (SEM) software solutions, today announced the release of Cúram for Child Support Enforcement, a flexible, comprehensive solution designed for agencies managing child support enforcement programs and services worldwide. Cúram for Child Support Enforcement improves agency efficiency by supporting the administrative responsibilities, automating and streamlining caseload processing, and providing accurate and timely business intelligence. With greater efficiency, agencies can measure and improve family outcomes by giving children the resources they need to ensure their well-being.

Recent studies have shown that single parent households are dramatically increasing across the globe driven largely by countries with historically low divorce rates. In the United States, approximately one-third of the children have a parent living outside of the household, representing over 23 million children. In partnership, federal and state agencies are tasked with supporting these families with the ultimate goal of maintaining self-sufficiency and providing a framework to ensure every child’s well-being. This is a daunting goal in light of an increase in citizens requiring services. Furthermore, caseworkers are burdened by manual processes, administrative tasks and siloed information systems.

Cúram for Child Support Enforcement is a pre-configured, automated solution that reduces administrative tasks and supports all phases of child support enforcement from intake and obligation tracking to enforcement and financial management. Comprehensive business intelligence features provide insight, analysis, and reporting to caseworkers and management using online reports that support analysis, investigation and continual improvement. Specifically designed to support the administrative responsibilities of child support enforcement agencies around the world, the Cúram solution is designed with a combination of interchangeable modules to meet the wide variation of program needs administered across different regions.

The realization that the family unit, regardless of the household composition, must be treated holistically in order to achieve better outcomes, drives agencies towards a social enterprise management approach to service delivery. Cúram for Child Support Enforcement is critical to completing an agency’s enterprise strategy by addressing multiple program needs simultaneously though a common platform. This new solution is a complement to the Cúram solutions for Income Support, Child Welfare, Child Care, Youth Services, and Adult Services. Together, the complete Cúram offering provides the most robust, fully integrated solution available today, designed specifically to improve self-sufficiency and drive better outcomes for all children and families.

As a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) product, the Cúram solution provides ongoing investment protection and lowers the cost, time and risk of a system modernization. The flexible and open architecture allows agencies to receive child support applications and referrals through multiple channels and enables inter-agency collaboration.

“Child support enforcement agencies face mounting pressure to help custodial parents gain access to the resources they need to ensure the well-being of their children. Among other things, the success of these agencies is dependent upon an enterprise view of the family and accurate, timely reports for benchmarking and measuring outcomes,” said Ronan Rooney, CTO and co-founder, Cúram Software. “We are very excited to expand our offerings to include a solution that gives caseworkers the tools they need to be more effective and promotes family responsibility and child support.”

SEM is a citizen-centric, outcome focused and integrated service delivery blueprint for modernizing and transforming the way that health, human services, workforce services and social security agencies operate to improve the lives of the citizens and families they support. SEM provides agencies with a comprehensive, technology-independent enterprise solution that crosses agency boundaries, lowers operational costs and improves citizen outcomes.

About Cúram Software:
Cúram Software is the leading provider of Social Enterprise Management (SEM) software solutions, delivering best-in-class applications for social enterprises globally including, health and human services, workforce services, and social security organizations. Using the Cúram Business Application Suite™ agencies can immediately reap the benefits of client-centric business processes and an outcomes-driven integrated service delivery model. The Cúram Business Application Suite, underpinned by the Cúram Enterprise Framework™, combines the advantages of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software, an enterprise platform and service-oriented architecture with the business and technical flexibility required to allow agencies to implement solutions to meet their strategic objectives. Cúram Software is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland with offices throughout North America, Europe, Australia, and India. For more information, visit www.curamsoftware.com .