Best Practice Partnerships

Cúram Software and CRC Partnership
Where feasible, we have gone further and developed partnerships with other leaders in outcome focused solutions for human services agencies. For instance, Cúram Software and the Children’s Research Center (CRC) have formed a partnership to integrate CRC’s proven, research-based methodologies with Cúram Software’s industry leading commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software solutions to deliver better citizen outcomes and improved caseworker decision making.

CRC’s Structured Decision Making™ system has been developed over nearly 20 years. Structured Decision Making or SDM™ is the most widely used assessment and case management model in the United States.

By combining market leading innovations in human services - the Cúram Business Application Suite and CRC’s evidence-based methodologies and tools, the partners will provide agencies with solutions that integrate workers, best practices, business processes, and information technology across agency and partner boundaries. This integrated, multi-disciplinary approach will help caseworkers make more efficient, informed and consistent decisions regarding the appropriate level of intervention required by their clients at multiple stages in a case lifecycle.

This ultimately leads to better social and economic outcomes for citizens and the agency - clients receive needed support, agencies focus their resources where they are most required, and together they are likely to create more timely, appropriate, and sustainable client outcomes.

Other Initiatives

Looking After Children
Outside of North America there is another assessment and decision support framework that is used by a number of countries globally - Looking After Children (LAC). LAC is used in a number of countries internationally including the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and countries in Europe.

LAC was developed by the UK Department of Health in the early 1990’s and is licensed by the UK government. LAC is focused primarily on the strengths and needs assessment of children in care and was designed to measure and assess the outcomes of placing children in the care of local authorities.

Linkages
The CalWORKs/Child Welfare Partnership Project, also known as Linkages, was launched in November 2000 in California to develop a coordinated services approach between Child Welfare Services and CalWORKs (TANF) services to better serve families and improve outcomes. The project was developed and directed by the California Center for Research on Women and Families (CCRWF).

Linkages was initially funded by the Stuart Foundation as a four-year initiative and founded in partnership with the California Department of Social Services to develop practices, materials, and tools that can be used by counties throughout California.

Cúram Software strongly believes that evidence-based solutions are critical to improving agency and client outcomes. We are committed to providing our customers with access to best practice (such as those highlighted above) through our software, services, and strategic partners.