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 Solutions
Head Start and Social Services
Cleverex Systems is performing several
contracts for the US Department of Health and Human Services, Administration
for Children and Families. Our longest standing contract is for the Head Start
Bureau (HSB). We are developing and maintaining the Head Start Family
Information System (HSFIS). This automated case management software is used by
about 1,000 Head Start agencies to track services delivered to about 400,000 of
our nation’s most vulnerable children and their families. Presently, we are
migrating the desktop-based HSFIS to an online web-based product called,
Program Resources and Outcomes Management Information System (PROMIS). We
provide technical assistance, training and support for these products. Over
3,000 staff from Head Start programs across the nation have attended our
training sessions. Additionally, we maintain a well-staffed 1-800 technical
assistance help desk.
In a highly competitive procurement process, Cleverex Systems was recently selected by the Maryland Governor’s Office of Children, Youth and Families (OCYF) to re-engineer the state’s results-oriented information system that tracks services delivered to at-risk children by the largely county-based Local Management Boards. Maryland’s new system will be entirely web-based and builds on a similar but smaller system that Cleverex Systems developed for the Family League of Baltimore City. Also recently, Cleverex Systems was chosen by the ACF Grants Office to develop a new web-based software application to enhance the efficiency of the ACF discretionary grant award process. In a related effort, Cleverex Systems is participating in an important new initiative by the national Office of Head Start called the, “grants administration and financial management quality improvement initiative.” The first and most important step in this initiative calls for the automation of the laws and regulations related to Head Start fiscal issues and the development of written guidance materials to help Head Start managers implement and meet those Federal requirements. We are developing a web-based knowledge management system called, “The Head Start Fiscal Assistant,” that will help local Head Start and Early Head Start programs exercise proper stewardship of Federal dollars. Using the Head Start Fiscal Assistant as their foundation, later steps in the initiative will include enhanced training, identification of best practices, and widespread information dissemination. Through a subcontract with the American Institutes for Research (AIR), Cleverex Systems is instrumental in providing additional support services to the Office of Head Start. Under this subcontract, we are providing extensive technical assistance, training, and programming support to two important applications used by the Program Operations Branch in the Head Start Bureau, namely, the Program Review Instrument and Systems Monitoring (PRISM) application and the Grant Application and Budget Instrument (GABI). The following is a list of the services we provide and our qualifications in those areas: |
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