FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 9, 1997
Contact: Bruce Chell
CWS/CMS Public
Information Officer
(714) 704-8770
AGENCY TO DEMONSTRATE
BENEFITS OF ACCESS TO NEW STATEWIDE COMPUTER SYSTEM
Orange - Orange County
Social Services Agency, Children and Family Services Division
will show how joining the statewide computer system will
benefit the efforts of social workers at 10 a.m. Thursday,
840 N. Eckhoff Street, Orange.
When it goes online with the Child Welfare Services/Case
Management System (CWS/CMS) on Oct. 6, Orange County will
join the system designed by IBM to link social services
and the California Dept. of Social Services in all 58
California counties.
The system provides better identification of child abusers,
and the cross-county ability to track perpetrators, as
well as better identification of the alleged child victim.
The database contains comprehsenive historical information,
allows for statewide clearances and greater knowledge
of possible violent perpetrators, thereby also increasing
worker safety.
Project Director Sylvia Wall, C.W.S. said, "Our staff
has received many hours of individual and group training
in the software programs they will need to utilize the
System. They are ready to use the System as a tool to
manage their caseloads; it will provide more information
about each family, and it ultimately will streamline their
paper work. We also have contingency plans for any unforeseen
circumstances.
"The staff really sees the benefit of using the system,
and they know that they will have all the support they
need when the system goes online Oct. 6."
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