Policy & Practice December 2018

or many state government agencies, prioritizing computer systems changes, investment, and improvement begin, and end, with responding to new Building a Collaborative Ecosystem to Better Serve Children and Families By Peter Kelly CO-CREATION F

federal regulations. In health and human services, when our systems help to protect the most vulnerable among us, dealing with scarce resources can make us feel like we’re letting citizens down. The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS) works diligently to collaborate with its local county partners to ensure that this is not the case. Through the collaborative co-creation effort of state and local agencies and technology partners, the state of Ohio gained significant improvements to its Comprehensive Child Welfare Information System (CCWIS) and identifying new opportunities to improve practice through technology, ultimately improving the services to children and families in need.

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