Transcript eWiSACWIS Changes - University of Wisconsin–Madison

eWiSACWIS Changes
Allows for messages to be sent to a
specific site within a county
 Allows for some messages to be sent to
additional people
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Change in Rate on Interim Care Placement
Newly Approved CANS
Newly Approved Foster Care Rate
Payment/Overpayment Will Not Be Created
Placement Ending
Service Ending
Foster Care Rate Ended
Foster Care Rate Ended - (Future End-Dated FCR)*
Missing Foster Care Rate*
Youth Aging Out of Care*
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Export of search results (reports)
Ability to generate payments
immediately (does not require workers
to wait for the scheduled weekly or
monthly runs)
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Payment for Administrative costs that
exceeds those costs already factored into
a provider’s Administrative Rate
 Child Placing Agencies
 Group Homes
 RCCs
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Notification to DCF occurs when an
Extraordinary Payment Request is
documented
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Ability to document a FCR for an
emergency/after hours (receiving home)
placements using a daily rate
 Only for emergency placements
 Only for the first 30 days of a placement
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Allows for a daily rate to be entered
 Calculates the exceptional amount (subtracts the
basic rate)
 Converts to a monthly rate
 Separate FCRs must be created when this spans over
two months (due to monthly rate)
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Uses CANS to calculate the
supplemental amount and uses the
basic amount based on the child’s age
(administrative and exceptional rates
can also be added)
 Can also create a non-Wisconsin rate
 Calculates a monthly rate
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Switched from Foster Club to UW Survey Center
 Memo: http://dcf.wisconsin.gov/memos/infomemos/DSP/2013/2013-15.pdf
 All Wisconsin youth who wish to take the NYTD
survey at 17, 19 or 21 should be contacted directly by
the University of Wisconsin Survey Center with a link
to complete the survey
 If a youth wishes to take the survey and needs
assistance, call 1-800-291-8624 and ask for extension
9991
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NYTD at 21 year old survey began Oct. 1st
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New E-mail Message: Homeless Outreach
Purpose: To notify counties that a youth
reported himself/herself as currently homeless
on the NYTD survey
Sent to IL worker when the youth completes a
17, 19 or 21 survey and selects homeless as an
answer for question 23 and the consent to share
the survey checkbox is selected
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Extending Foster Care to 21
Birth to 3 referral
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Updated versions of the Home Study and
Home Study Update/Recertification
 eWiSACWIS pages
 Templates
 Psychosocial Evaluation Report added as
an eWiSACWIS page
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CPS Reports
 Changed ‘ICW Cover Letter’ drop-down
value to ‘Indian Child Welfare Screened
Out Report’ to better describe the
template
 Changed ‘Notice to Tribal Agent’ dropdown value to ‘CPS Report to Tribal
Agent’ to better describe the template
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Person Management
 ICWA specific fields are disabled until
Race or Ethnicity is designated as
‘American Indian/Alaskan Native’ and/or
‘Native American’
 Tribal Membership # is enabled once
identified as a tribe ‘Member’ for Indian
Tribe 1 or 2
 A narrative box has been added to
display if a tribal membership status is
‘Not eligible for membership’
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Tickler
 A new tickler reminds the primary
worker to update a Tribal Membership
Status if the value is ‘Pending’
 Due 30 days from ‘Pending’ membership
entry
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ICWA Record
 Added Active Efforts group box
 Pre-fills active efforts from Planning &
Services tab of the most recently approved
Permanency Plan
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Maltreater Review process
Workload Management for Assessment
Title IV-E Eligibility to support extension
of out-of-home care
 Private Provider
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Moving the Independent Living coordination and
delivery of services to regional operations for youth
aging out of care
 E-mail messages will be sent to county and regional IL
staff when a youth turns 17 ½
 Modification to how e-mails get sent for Independent
Living messages
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 Workers identified as Independent Living Coordinators
will automatically get IL messages
 No need to maintain distribution lists (unless you want
the message to go to additional people)
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Adding New IL case assignment type
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