Geographic Placement Resource SystemPublic Child Welfare Conference - October 22-23, 2014

Geographic Placement Resource SystemPresenters: Lindsay Wood and Nora Medina

• Overview of GPRS

• Release 4 Updates

• GPRS Demonstration

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Agenda

• Locating Out-of-Home Care (OHC) Placements

• Disaster Preparedness

• Foster Care Recruitment

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Subject Areas

Currently in Production, OHC Placement• Provide eWiSACWIS child information

• Child’s First Name, Child’s Last Name, and/or Child’s eWiSACWIS ID number

• Provide child filtering criteria using eWiSACWIS information• Child’s Age, Gender, Level of Need, Race, Ethnicity, and Grade Level

• Display child information using eWiSACWIS information• Child’s Removal Address• Mother’s and Father’s Address• Relatives Addresses• Current School• Sibling(s)

• GPRS will not automatically display this information. The user will need to input the sibling’s eWiSACWIS ID number and GPRS will then display the sibling information

• Other Address• This information is user-entered

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Overview of GPRS

Currently in Production, OHC Placement - Placement Filtering Criteria• Vacancies (greater than or equal to 1 or more)

• No Other Persons Receiving Care in the Home

• Accepting Females

• Accepting Males

• Settings • Foster Homes

• Level of Care• Licensing Agency

• Court Ordered Kinship Care• Unlicensed Non-Relative• Unlicensed Relative• Group Home• Residential Care Center• Shelter Care Facility• Detention Centers• Juvenile Correctional Facilities

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Overview of GPRS

Currently in Production, OHC Placement• Display radius

• Display schools buildings and school districts

• Display Tribal lands

• Display Regions, Counties, Municipalities, entire State

• Display provider types: Foster Homes, Group Homes, Kinship Care, RCC, Shelter Care, Unlicensed, Detention Centers, and Correctional Facilities

• Links to:• Sex offender’s watchdog site (Family Watchdog Sex Offender Registry)• Regulated child care facilities site (YoungStar)• Background check site (WI CCAP)

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Overview of GPRS

Currently in Production, OHC Placement• Info Tab

•Displays Provider Information: Provider Name, ID, Address, Parent(s) Name, Licensing Agency and Worker, Capacity Number, Vacancy Number, Number of Placements

• GPRS Map Display• “S” Search Function to search for a specific Provider or a Child by name or ID number

• Reporting Functionality• “PD” Provider Details Report includes: Provider name and address, school district,

agency contact, current placements, licensing information, provider emergency contact information, current placement(s), preferred placement age, capacity information, additional licensee information, and ability to export report to Excel

• “BA” Bad Address button/report• “SR” School Report: Providers within a selected school district. Report includes provider

name and address, school district, agency contact, licensing information, and current placements

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Overview of GPRS

Currently in Production, Disaster Preparedness• Child Filtering Criteria

• Filter by Agency Responsible for the Child: All Agencies or Based on Primary Caseworker’s County

• Placement Filtering Criteria• Display: Providers with Placements, Providers without Placements, ALL Providers

• Settings:• Foster Homes• Court Ordered Kinship Care• Unlicensed Non-relative• Unlicensed Relative• Group Home• Residential Care Center• Shelter Care Facility• Detention Centers• Juvenile Correctional Facilities

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Overview of GPRS

Currently in Production, Disaster Preparedness• Display of Flood Zones

• From FEMA• Can be turned on and off

• Ability to draw a Disaster Zone directly on the map

• Display providers and children within the Disaster Zone

• GPRS Map Display• “S” Search Function to search for a specific Provider or a Child by name or ID number

• Reporting Functionality• “PD” Provider Details Report: Includes the same information as OHC Placement• “BA” Bad Address button/report• “SR” School Report: Includes the same information as OHC Placement• “DR” Disaster Report: Provider name and address, school district, agency contact,

licensing information, provider emergency contact, current placements, home members, follow-up information

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Overview of GPRS

Release 4 Updates – Implementation date to be determined• Provide additional child filtering criteria

• CANS Information

• Provide additional provider filtering criteria• Provider Characteristics

• Implement Targeted Recruitment

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Overview of GPRS, Release 4

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Overview of GPRS, Demonstration

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Overview of GPRS, Questions/Comments

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Contact Information

Lindsay Wood, OHC SpecialistLindsay.Wood@wisconsin.gov

Nora Medina, Senior Business AnalystNora.Medina@wisconsin.gov