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October 2015
Policy&Practice
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odern technology
platforms are essential to transforming health and human
services throughout this country. Because of a federal grant
to support innovation in interoperability, data exchange,
improved business practices, and the National Information
Exchange Model (NIEM) standards, a new platform will
enable permanency outcomes to be achieved in record
numbers and in record time for children moving across
states lines.
The American Public Human Services Association
(APHSA) and its a liate, the Association of Administrators
of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children
(AAICPC), were awarded a cooperative agreement
grant for a three-year $ . million in May
by the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS),
Administration on Children, Youth, and Families’ (ACYF)
Children’s Bureau (CB) to further develop the National
Electronic Interstate Compact Enterprise (NEICE). The
NEICE, a pilot project recently finalized and producing
stunning results, is a cloud-based, case-processing system
that supports the administration of the Interstate Compact
on the Placement of Children (ICPC) by translating data into
a common language and exchanging both data and docu-
ments across state jurisdictions in real time to facilitate the
safe placement of children. All jurisdictions within the
compact will be able to use the NEICE by mid-
.
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By Mical Peterson
and Anita Light