Transcript Crossroads

NuPAFP Conference
October 13-14, 2010
Color Me Healthy
Sylvia Henshaw
What?!?
• Crossroads
– WIC Management
Information System
– USDA initiative to
“build once & replicate”
– 4 State Consortium
– State Agency Model
(SAM)
– Supports all aspects of
WIC operations
• e-WIC
– Electronic Benefits
Transfer (EBT) System
– Food benefit issuance,
redemption, payment,
and reconciliation
Who?!?
Crossroads
Consortium
CSC
Caroline Jackson
Jim Finley
Fenris Daniel
Barbara Swartz
State Coordinators
Virginia
Sylvia Henshaw
e-WIC
Mageswari Babu
Natasha Miller
Lonnie Bell
Boyd Neal
e-WIC Processor
(TBD)
When?!?
Crossroads
Rollout
Planning
Fall
2012
e-WIC
Pilot
Design &
Development
Spring
2012
Testing
Fall 2011
How?!?
Periodic
Development
Review (PDR)
Feedback
#1/5
Feedback
Demonstrations
#5/10
How?!?
• Implementation Advanced Planning
Document (IAPD)
– Approved: July 1, 2010
• EBT Implementation Grant
– Approved: September 16, 2010
• RFP for e-WIC Processor
– Approved: September 9,2010
– Release: October 2010
How?!?
• USDA Universal Interface
Specification
– Crossroads-EBT Interface Specification
• December 31, 2010
• e-WIC Retailer Workgroup
• USDA Operating Rules and Technical
Implementation Specification
Crossroads Demonstration
#5
Thank you!
Sylvia Henshaw
[email protected]