Curam Software Announces Child Services Solution.

Curam Child Services Supports Improved Outcomes for Children and Families

HERNDON, Va. -- Curam Software, the leading provider of Social Enterprise Management (SEM) software solutions, today announced the availability of Curam Child Services (CCS) for government customers managing child protection and welfare programs world-wide. Designed to support agencies in the ongoing transformation to outcomes-focused, family-centered organizations, CCS provides an enterprise solution that enables a new generation of best practices and case methodologies in children's services. Alberta Children's Services' (ACS) will be the first customer to implement the new solution. They will utilize other components of the Curam Business Application Suite[TM] and Curam Child Services as key components in its new system modernization initiative, the Integrated Children's Services Environment (ICSE).

CCS is the first commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) solution built expressly to meet the business transformation and modernization needs in children's services. The extensive integrated case management capabilities provide decision support and team-based collaboration technologies that empower caseworkers to establish effective intervention strategies, design best practice service plans, and importantly, to manage children and families to successful outcomes. CCS enables agencies to implement best practices such as family-centered methodologies, alternative response strategies, evidence-based practices, and expanded community involvement.

Curam Child Services takes a holistic approach to addressing the needs of children and families by providing caseworkers with a complete view of the client through integrated assessment, goal setting, service delivery planning, execution, and monitoring. The solution helps agencies to meet key regulatory, certification, and business goals for both program effectiveness and operational efficiency. As the first COTS product in the child welfare market, CCS provides agencies with ongoing investment protection and reduces project time, risk, and cost, while providing the required flexibility to adapt to changes program requirements.

Built on an open, service-oriented business and technology platform, CCS enables agencies to effectively address system modernization challenges and rising client expectations. Based on service-oriented architecture (SOA), CCS provides greater flexibility, ease of management, as well as reusable business and technology services. The solution readily integrates with the children's services enterprise and greater human services ecosystem. CCS is an integral component of the Curam Family Services Suite (CFSS) which includes CCS, Curam Youth Services, and Curam Adult Services. CFSS provides a complete suite of COTS-based, outcomes-focused solutions for family services agencies.

"Child services organizations face increasing pressure to transform their business and improve outcomes for children and families," said Ronan Rooney, chief technology officer, Curam Software. "Curam Child Services is the first solution that focuses on facilitating transformation challenges and supporting new best practices to help caseworkers make faster, better, and more effective decisions to protect and care for children and families."

Alberta Children's Service (ACS) joins other Curam customers in Canada and the United States who are engaged in the transformation and modernization of their children's services agencies. The Curam solution fulfilled ACS' plan to integrate all of their child, youth, and family delivery support systems via an integrated case management platform that was inherently family-centric and outcomes-based.

SEM is a new category of enterprise software that is citizen-centric and leverages COTS products to transform as well as modernize health, human services, labor, and social security agencies. SEM provides comprehensive enterprise eligibility IT solutions crossing agency boundaries, simplifying policies, and integrating with existing technology. SEM fosters holistic, convenient services for citizens, as well as provides screening for needs and referrals to state and community-based resources.

About Curam Software:

Curam Software is the leading provider of Social Enterprise Management (SEM) software solutions, delivering best-in-class applications for social enterprises globally including, health and human services, workforce services, and social security organizations. Using the Curam Business Application Suite[TM] agencies can immediately reap the benefits of client-centric business processes and an outcomes-driven integrated service delivery model. The Curam Business Application Suite, underpinned by the Curam Enterprise Framework[TM], combines the advantages of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) software, an enterprise platform and service oriented architecture with the business and technical flexibility required to allow agencies to implement solutions to meet their strategic objectives. Curam Software is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland with additional offices located in New York, Washington, D.C., United Kingdom, Australia and Bangalore, India. For more information, visit www.curamsoftware.com.