Cúram for Child Welfare

Cúram for Child Welfare helps agencies transform child welfare service delivery and improve outcomes.  It empowers governments to coordinate resources to support clients in achieving their potential.

  • For child welfare agencies looking for a comprehensive and cost effective solution
  • For U.S. states ready to implement or replace their statewide automated child welfare information systems (SACWIS) solution
  • For child welfare agencies that seek to increase collaboration and family-centric service planning
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Cúram for Child Welfare provides an integrated and cost-effective case management solution for child welfare agencies – supporting key business requirements and improved agency effectiveness through family-centric, outcome-focused business processes.  

Cúram Software and Children’s Research Center (CRC) formed an exclusive partnership to embed the Structured Decision Making® (SDM®) assessment methodology into Cúram. The integration of CRC’s research-based assessments coupled with the best practice case management of Cúram for Child Welfare provides incredibly effective caseworker decision making.  The decision making relies upon an integrated, dynamic assessment and decision making framework that ensures intelligent information capture and client outcome evaluation.

Cúram for Child Welfare, a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) solution, enables an innovative multi-disciplinary approach that helps organizations remove the artificial boundaries within and between agencies, service providers, and community organizations.  This approach improves caseworker and agency effectiveness, as well as outcomes through integrated assessment, planning, and outcome management.  It also features integrated intake capabilities to enable a “no wrong door” approach to services.

The solution’s use of best practices, in combination with comprehensive decision-support tools, enables consistent and effective evidence-based assessments and case planning to manage clients and their families toward successful and sustainable outcomes.

  • Supports, via a single solution, the full case lifecycle
  • Enables a holistic view of case information and a single source for managing provider interactions and the performance of business partners for improved outcomes and efficiency
  • Facilitates integrated service delivery and team-based decision making
  • Improves caseworker effectiveness through integrated assessment, planning, and outcome evaluation, as well as outcome-driven best practices and decision support
  • Facilitates targeted, effective service delivery and successful outcomes with collaborative, secure, and comprehensive integrated case management
  • Integrates the Children's Research Center (CRC) SDM® methodology and best practices from around the globe with intake, investigation, and case management processes
  • Delivers extensive configuration capabilities, reducing the need for costly and time-consuming customizations and accelerating implementation and return on investment
  • Supports Incremental Modernization and Transformation (IMT) approach
  • Multi-disciplinary approach integrates service delivery, enables team-based decision making, and improves information sharing
  • Exclusive partnership with CRC to embed the Structured Decision Making® (SDM®) assessment methodology into Cúram provides integrated outcome management and decision-support tools to improve caseworker effectiveness
  • Integrated evidence-based best practices facilitate proven, consistent decision making at critical points to improve client safety, permanency, and well being
  • Holistic approach to child and family leads to improved and sustainable outcomes
  • Flexible, configurable enterprise business application platform supports the key requirements of child welfare agencies while reducing customization needs and accelerating return on investment
  • Easy to navigate interface improves user productivity
  • Service-oriented architecture (SOA) enables greater flexibility, reusable business and technology services, and an integrated platform within the human services enterprise

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“The Cúram platform provides us with the ability to rapidly modernize our child welfare system, improve our processes, and deliver our child and family services whenever or wherever they are needed.”

Duane Fontenot, Director of Information Technology, LA Dept of Social Services