f New Mexico » Systems integration

Agency integration, 2016

• Child welfare

  New York Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS)

  Centralizes child welfare administration services at the state level.

• Integration level

  Single agency integration

• Juvenile corrections

  New Mexico Children, Youth, and Families Department (CYFD), Juvenile Justice Services

  Centralizes administration of delinquency services at the state level.

Coordination, 2014

• Uses for coordination
• Does not use for coordination

• Data sharing

  Facilitated through the use of statewide information systems allowing for consistent data sharing between systems.

• Committees or advisory groups

  Multidisciplinary groups that often have regularly scheduled meetings to brainstorm ways to improve systems integration.

• Formal interagency MOUs

  Collaborative agreements to guide systems integration efforts

• Informal interagency agreements

  Commonly based on historical practice, mutual trust, and recognition of the need to collaborate in order to serve dual-status youth.

• Statute and/or rules

  Rules that mandate systems integration efforts

Summary

Juvenile justice services, children and adult protective services and early child development are all administered by the New Mexico Children Youth and Families Department (CYFD). The Department has a unified case management system that is utilized by child welfare, juvenile justice and family services. Therefore, knowledge concerning youth with dual status is integrated statewide. Case coordination occurs on an informal basis with no established protocol or memorandum of understanding. Dual status cases are jointly managed by assigned juvenile justice and child welfare workers and staffed on a monthly basis in the largest jurisdiction, Bernadillo County (Albuquerque) but it is unknown if similar practice is in place across all jurisdictions.

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