Technology developed at the University of Washington to improve service delivery in child welfare, foster care and homeless youth systems will soon be expanded to other states.
New grant funding will allow Oliver — a social service management solution developed by Partners for Our Children, an organization in the UW School of Social Work — to be expanded to five communities in Washington, Oregon, and California.
Oliver was created about three years ago as a way of addressing the need for better data in the child welfare system. The program provides software and apps that streamline internal work processes for child welfare providers and help generate data on service delivery and outcomes.
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