Cúram for Youth Services
Cúram for Youth Services supports agency strategies for improving outcomes and performance with a wide range of functionality for managing key business processes from beginning to end, from referral through aftercare.
Suitable For:
- Agencies managing youth justice programs and services worldwide
- Agencies that seek to develop youth accountability and competancy, reduce recidivism, and promote safer communities
- Agencies that provide best practice service planning through the use of integrated decision support
Cúram for Youth Services supports agencies in developing youth accountability and competency, reducing recidivism, and promoting safer communities.
The comprehensive case management and planning capabilities of Cúram for Youth Services provide a secure, enterprise-wide view of client and case information to provide the right information to the right resouces at the right time. Cúram for Youth Services enables multiple stakeholders in the youth services community to collaborate and share responsibility for cross-discipline management of each youth in care, leading to a successful client outcome.
Cúram for Youth Services provides agencies with the ability to automate their business processes and provide consistent, effective case management processes. Cúram for Youth Services provides the ability to configure and automate business workflow to improve efficiency, effectiveness, consistency and accuracy. The configurability enables agencies to design workflow specific to their business requirement needs, regardless of whether they are organized centrally, regionally or locally.
Cúram for Youth Services supports agency efforts to address this challenge by faciliating best practice service planning through integrated decision support, including an assessment framework that supports an array of youth assessments.
- Supports a continuum of service delivery, from Prevention to Intervention & Diversion, through Placement & Treatment then onto Transition & Aftercare
- Facilitates collaboration and information sharing across key stakeholders amongst jurisdictions, agencies, and providers
- Improved agency and case worker effectiveness through comprehensive client evaluation, case planning and proactive case management
- A single, holistic view of all client information, plans, documents, legal actions, interactions, tasks, calendars leading to improved outcomes such as reduced recidivism and increased safety levels throughout the community
- Flexible solution Includes comprehensive case management, including ability to plan and evaluate juveniles while acknowledging the unique state, regional, county and local business needs
- Facilitates outcome-driven best practices and decision support
- Offers features that help improve service delivery and enhance efficiency such as:
- Management and tracking of both incoming and outgoing inter-jurisdictional requests
- Dynamic creation of youth face sheets
- Creation of effective service plans, tailored according to the circumstances and needs of each individual youth
- Identification & management of notification recipient
- Ability to define and manage the judicial proceedings according to local legislation
- Cúram solution is COTS, which provides investment protection and lowers system deployment cost, risk, and time
- SOA-based platform enables agencies greater flexibility, easier to manage, reusable business and technology services, and ready integrates with the human services enterprise
Supporting Materials
"The proportion of females has increased over the years from 13% in 1991 to 15% in 2003. The female proportion was greater among status offenders held (40%) than among delinquents (14%), and greater for detained (18%) than for comitted (12%) delinquents."
National Center for Juvenile Justice, March 2006, Juvenile Offenders and Victims 2006 National Report

