Ohio Department of Job & Family Services
DSI provided Project Management services on the State of Ohio SACWIS project that serves all eighty-eight (88) Counties . The current FACSIS system, (Family and Children’s Service Information System) has ended the development phase of its life cycle and has entered a maintenance-only mode of operation. FACSIS has been the State’s mechanism of collecting data on child welfare programs and child abuse incidents since 1987. There are currently over 1 million individuals (children, parents, perpetrators, witnesses) tracked using the FACSIS system. Without FACSIS, this data would have to be collected from 88 different county automated or even manual child welfare systems.
Specific responsibilities included: project and time management, project identification and analysis, project integration management, project scope management, project cost management, project quality management, risk management, writing program design specifications, program analysis, design, coding, unit testing, integration testing, coordination and implementation, developing new on-line and batch programs, establishing procedures, documentation, system maintenance and support.
DSI provides Project Management services for the Support Enforcement Tracking System (SETS) project that serves all eighty-eight (88) Counties . DSI managed the design, programming, testing, and installation of a batch interface system to allow the transfer of needed information between the CRIS-E and the SETS systems. This also included the supervision of over 30 staff and their programming activities during the life of this project.
SETS provides the Agency with a tool for improving the overall service to all recipients of the child support enforcement program; and reducing the Temporary Aid to Needy Family, (TANF), program costs through increased child support collections.
SETS will be one of the largest statewide child support systems in the nation. It currently maintains data on 805,034 cases as of September 1, 2000 . Support processes can interface with over 3,500 county workers, whom have hit a daily record of over one million SETS transactions. On a daily basis, SETS creates over 2,000 notices, 28,000 checks and distributes over $7,500,000. To date, SETS has collected over $1,270,516,000 and distributed over 8,059,800 checks to custodial families.
DSI provided Project Management services on the State of Ohio CRIS-E project as well as for eleven (11) other large-scale projects within the CRIS-E system, including:
- Benefit Issuance and Recovery
- Ohio Works First
- Data Exchange
- Data Warehousing
- School District Tax Offsets
- Provider Certification
- Ohio Child Care 2000
- Sanction and Time Limits
- Alert and Notice Processing
- Information Delivery and Absentee Tracking
- Mass Processing and Jobs.
CRIS-E is a centralized, on-line, real-time system that serves all eighty-eight (88) County Departments of Job and Family Services (CDJFS) in the delivery of public assistance programs, including Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Child Care, Food Stamps, and Ohio Health Insurance (Medicaid). CRIS-E contains over 1500 computer programs and approximately 3.6 million lines of code and more than 400 screens.
