The governance team of the
National Information Exchange Model's Children, Youth, and Family Services Domain (NIEM CYFS) invites you to review and critique its new schema. We appreciate your feedback and ask that you send your comments to
dgraski@ncsc.org by July 15, 2011.
The beta version of CYFS 2.1.1 can be viewed in several formats. For a comprehensive list of all of the elements (properties), types, and code lists (enumerations), this html view works best:
http://www.waterholesoftware.com/downloads/cyfs211/cyfs211.html. Several other tools found at
http://cyfsdomain.org enable keyword searches and graphical views (e.g., NIEM Wayfarer).
The purpose of the CYFS domain is to support timely, complete, accurate, and efficient information sharing among the child support, child welfare, juvenile justice, family court, and related partners that can help improve outcomes for children and youth whose circumstances make them particularly vulnerable. The inaugural content for the domain – part of NIEM 2.1’s release in September 2009 – was extracted from extension schema specifying national reference models for six data exchanges between courts and child-support enforcement agencies, and between courts and child welfare agencies. The CYFS Domain release planned for August 2011 will integrate the Juvenile Justice XML data model developed by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention’s Juvenile Information Sharing Initiative. In addition, the August 2011 domain update will include data elements from three notification exchanges (court event, representation, and placement change).
The National Judicial-Child Support Task Force, sponsored by the
Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Children and Families’ Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE), developed two information exchange models using NIEM’s predecessor, the Global Justice XML Data Model. The Task Force included representatives from state and tribal CSE agencies and courts, staff from OCSE’s regional and central offices, and the
National Center for State Courts (NCSC). The Initial Request for Remedy IEPD describes the agency’s case-initiation message to the court; the Child Support Order IEPD describes the court’s findings and judgment concerning the financial responsibilities of a child’s non-custodial parent.
The Court/Child Welfare National Exchange Template (NET) Project developed several national reference models to describe the exchange of information between a state or county child welfare agency and a court with jurisdiction over child abuse, neglect, and dependency cases. The NET team included representatives from HHS ACF Children’s Bureau’s Division of State Systems, two of the Children’s Bureau’s National Resource Centers (Child Welfare Data & Technology, and Legal & Judicial Issues), representatives from state and local child welfare agencies and courts, and NCSC.
OJJDP’s National Juvenile Information Sharing Initiative (NJIS) worked with one of its JIS pilot sites to identify and develop several high-priority data exchange specifications, including education messages between juvenile probation, law enforcement, and a public school district. In a collaborative effort, OJJDP’s NJIS worked with the University of Massachusetts Medical School to develop the data exchange for the Massachusetts Youth Screening Instrument (MAYSI-2). This data exchange has been successfully implemented at one of the NJIS’s pilot sites. Additional data exchanges developed include information regarding a serious, habitual offender direct intervention (SHODI), record of law enforcement’s Field Contact with a juvenile, and Human Service placement and services exchanges.
