OR-Kids

Last week, the state agency I work for,  began using a brand new, very comprehensive, SACWIS system. The information a child welfare agency must track is huge.  OR-Kids has been years in planning and development, and it replaces our FACIS system that has been around since 1994.  Yes, I was around for that...man, I am getting old.

The new system requires much more data input.  It is labor intensive up front, yes, but as an eligibility specialist who mines data to gather enough  information, it is a bit of a dream.

Last week was hard for me though.  I wanted to get through at least one determination.  I kept running into bugs.  Flustered a bit, because I like forward progress, but not really surprised.  Soon me or the system will get whatever me or the system has to get and forward progress will be made.

Because my job is a unique on done by a small  group of us across the state, I started a wiki page for us all to report issues we are having with OR-Kids and posting solutions as they come through.  My hope is that we can use each other's issues and successes to speed our forward progress as a whole.

I am anxious to see how this experiment works.