P&P October 2015

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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- .

By Mical Peterson and Anita Light

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