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October 2014

eWiSACWIS Changes. October 2014. June 2014. Automated Messages. Allows for messages to be sent to a specific site within a county Allows for some messages to be sent to additional people. Automated Messages. Automated Messages. Change in Rate on Interim Care Placement

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October 2014

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  1. eWiSACWIS Changes October 2014

  2. June 2014

  3. Automated Messages • Allows for messages to be sent to a specific site within a county • Allows for some messages to be sent to additional people

  4. Automated Messages

  5. Automated Messages • 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*

  6. Financial Changes • Export of search results (reports) • Ability to generate payments immediately (does not require workers to wait for the scheduled weekly or monthly runs)

  7. Extraordinary Payments • Payment for Administrative costs that exceeds those costs already factored into a provider’s Administrative Rate • Child Placing Agencies • Group Homes • RCCs • Notification to DCF occurs when an Extraordinary Payment Request is documented

  8. Inactive Participants – CANS & FCR

  9. Emergency/After Hours • 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 • 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)

  10. Emergency/After Hours

  11. Out of State Foster Care Rates • 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

  12. Out of State Foster Care Rates

  13. Independent Living • 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 • NYTD at 21 year old survey began Oct. 1st

  14. NYTD: WI Survey Center & 21 Survey

  15. Independent Living • 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

  16. October 2014

  17. October 2014 • Extending Foster Care to 21 • Birth to 3 referral

  18. Birth to Three Referral

  19. Home Providers

  20. Home Study • Updated versions of the Home Study and Home Study Update/Recertification • eWiSACWIS pages • Templates • Psychosocial Evaluation Report added as an eWiSACWIS page

  21. Home Study

  22. Home Study Update/Recertification

  23. 90-Day Summary Report

  24. Medicaid Eligibility

  25. ICWA 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’ drop-down value to ‘CPS Report to Tribal Agent’ to better describe the template

  26. ICWA 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’

  27. ICWA

  28. ICWA 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

  29. ICWA Record

  30. ICWA Record ICWA Record • Added Active Efforts group box • Pre-fills active efforts from Planning & Services tab of the most recently approved Permanency Plan

  31. ICWA Record

  32. February 2015

  33. February 2015 • Maltreater Review process • Workload Management for Assessment • Title IV-E Eligibility to support extension of out-of-home care • Private Provider

  34. Independent Living • Moving the Independent Living coordination and delivery of services to regional operationsfor 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 • 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) • Adding New IL case assignment type

  35. Independent Living

  36. Independent Living - Imaging

  37. Education Training Voucher Funds

  38. Maintain Worker Information

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