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On August 24, 2011, at 2 p.m. E.T., the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's National Training and Technical Assistance Center will host the Webinar, "Bullying Intervention: What Works."

A new article to share today from our friends at Human Services Degree.org

You may recall from an earlier post - GVT Enters FAMCare Into Windows Azure Contest, we entered our juvenile justice and detention module of FAMCare into the Windows Azure application "codeproject" contest.

Like all good tools, human services software is only as good as the people that use it. Actually - good software used properly can make for great processes and systems. But the tool itself… in the scheme of things, is just a tool. As quoted in Spiderman the movie – “with great power, comes great responsibility.” At the end of this post - we have a 15 Point Self-Audit that can help you "sure up" the right questions to ask when you move forward with a good software platform.

Two final pieces to our short summary of successful software implementation practices involve having the right management buy-in and identifying who your software "champions" are...

There are three principles that when leveraged properly - can ensure a great software implementation - "Training" is No. 1.

The term human service in its self is broad. Typically it involves the processes of helping out any child or adult who is part of the government system for a reason. That reason could be child welfare, juvenile justice, or an adult with a need. The list grows daily… of people needing assistance of some sort from various human services departments – and so the case for a quality information system is also growing. Our team at Global Vision Technologies knows and understands these needs and we meet them by providing human and social services teams with software that affords excellent advantages. These software programs help to elevate human and social services information management practices.

Wouldn't it be nice if you could replace legacy applications without the pain of adapting to an off-the-shelf system or the high cost of rebuilding an existing system? I found myself sitting at a Child Welfare conference a couple months ago. A large portion of the material was focused on creating enterprise systems for States and Counties to use for tracking Child Welfare cases and for meeting Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information System (SACWIS) requirements.