Reports on Michigan child welfare ‘depressing,’ says judge
Not one penny went to help the parents who raise their kids in state manufactured poverty that is legally considered abuse and neglect.
The only thing Children's Rights has done is bill the State of Michigan for attorney fees and oversight contract monitoring that has done absolutely nothing.
Not once has the Nancy Edmunds Court mentioned UNISYS, the private, foreign corporation that keeps one billing, and billing, and billing for a jacked up system that they are trying really hard to set up that jacked up predictive modeling for the purposes of having a go to database for asset forfeiture to the corporate parent, who, in this instance, we have no idea, because it is a foreign corporation.
Children have no civil rights when it comes to privatized foreign corporations doing human services in Michigan.
Perhaps, someone in that Children's Rights case could ask Peter Altabef or Shalabh Gupta if they could shed some light about their understanding that these errors in SACWIS are called rape, torture, suicide, and result in modern human trafficking.
Who knows, maybe Michigan will one day be under federal receivership so we could just pull all the data and financial transaction to find out why we even need a child welfare system and what they do with the data.
State of Michigan Taps Unisys to Build New Child Welfare Services System
Unisys will design and maintain integrated system to meet new data quality and information-sharing requirements
The new contract was awarded in the first quarter of this year and will run three years, and the State of Michigan may extend it for two additional one-year periods at its discretion. This contract has a value of approximately $30 million, and the State may order additional services that could bring the total potential value of the contract to approximately $47 million. ~ 2011
Troubled DHHS software improves
And, while MiSACWIS cost about $18 million more than the original contract, Wheaton said those expenses were all planned and unrelated to any bugs: A $10.6 million second-year contract extension with Unisys Corp., the Pennsylvania-based company that built the software, and about $7 million to add the state’s juvenile justice and County Child Care Fund agencies into the system.
Some 8,000 people in public and private agencies use the software. ~ 2015
Yes, private, foreign corporations have access to our children's data and they use it for fraudulent billing in Medicaid through foster care and adoption.
801 Lakeview Dr Ste 100
Blue Bell, PA, 19422-1961 ,UNITED STATES
Expiration Date: 10/03/2019
NAICS: 334111 - Electronic Computer Manufacturing
| The name of the FOREIGN PROFIT CORPORATION: UNISYS CORPORATION |
The prior true name in home state: BURROUGHS CORPORATION changed on: 12-05-1986
The prior true name in home state: BURROUGHS DELAWARE INCORPORATED changed on: 06-28-1984
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| Date of Qualification in Michigan: 04/02/1984 |
Incorporated under the laws of: the state of Delaware
Term: Perpetual
| Most Recent Annual Report: 2018 | Most Recent Annual Report with Officers & Directors: 2018 |
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Shares Attributable to Michigan: 3,265,920
Most Recent Apportionment %: 2.0600%
Year Ending: 2016
These flaws in SACWIS lead to the trauma of children being legally kidnapped, drugged, raped, tortured, suicided, murdered, and a substantial maximization of profits.
Someone needs to be held accountable.
Someone needs to stop this madness.
Report: Flawed state software program could hurt Michigan children
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| Shalabh Gupta, UNISYS Corporation, Treasurer (There are lots of Shalabh Gupta's out there) [The face of a man who cares about profits over kids] |
LANSING — The computer system Michigan child welfare workers use to track neglect and abuse cases is deeply flawed and could lead to issues that hurt children and families, a report released Wednesday in federal court states.
The report recommended Michigan abandon the computer program, which has "persistent and significant defects" despite $231 million in state and federal investment in the program since it launched in 2014.
The Michigan Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information System, or MiSACWIS, is used for cases in the state's child protective services, foster care, adoption, licensing and juvenile justice system.
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| Peter Altabef, UNISYS President |
DHHS will study the report in coming weeks to decide how to address the issues, an official said.
"We know MiSACWIS has major problems, as the court report and the hearing highlighted," said Geralyn Lasher, senior deputy director for external relations and communications at DHHS.
"The court has given us until June 27 to determine the appropriate next steps. We will take that time to do so."
Report follows 10+ years of court oversight
Federal court monitors continue to review the quality of the Michigan's child welfare programs, which came under court oversight after the settlement of a 2006 class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of children in the foster system who attorneys argued were mistreated in state care.
Last year, Judge Nancy Edmunds ordered a review of MiSACWIS because poor data quality had "prevented, delayed or stymied efforts by court monitors to verify the state's progress" in improving its child welfare system, according to the report written by consultant Kurt Heisler.
In the report, Heisler highlighted four key issues with MiSACWIS:
- Flawed design and launch causing continued problems. Those problems include "an unmanageable backlog of defects, incidents, and data fixes that are likely to persist indefinitely, inhibit effective casework, contribute to data entry errors, negatively affect outcomes for children and families, and impact MDHHS's ability to collect and report accurate and timely ... data for both the monitors and field staff.
- Conflict hindering fixes. There is "significant conflict and tension" between the software integration team and Children's Services Agency, which have made it difficult for caseworkers to improve MiSACWIS.
- Not enough time to fix backlogs. Developers don't have the time or resources to find or fix the root causes of problems with MiSACWIS.
- Not enough time for quality review. Limited resources, a big workload and tight deadlines means there isn't time available for workers to run quality assurance checks.
Although he recommended developing an entirely new system, Heisler said Michigan could fix the current system and update it to match a newer federal model.
New report, old problems
The department launched MiSACWIS in April 2014, pitching it as an improved, "real-time" case management tool child welfare workers would use for CPS, foster care and adoption cases.
The tool was supposed to make it easier for those workers to monitor cases, track progress and services offered to clients and ensure better safety for children. It was supposed to help more than 6,000 DHHS, private agency and court workers share case data.
Three years after its launch, state auditors uncovered problems with the MiSACWIS system. They reported the state did not properly merge records in MiSACWIS before launching the program, left 208 child welfare cases unassigned, issued thousands of potentially inaccurate payments and more.
Auditors again pointed to problems with MiSACWIS in a report issued last year. They reported workers were inconsistent in documenting case work in the system, the system did not retain certain documents and inaccurately filled in information about the risks children faced, among others.
DHHS officials announced they would make changes to protocol late last year in response to that audit, including implementing a thorough checklist they said will ensure case workers follow department protocol and document their work.
Those changes are not related to MiSACWIS, Wheaton said.
The state's response
On Wednesday, department officials said they are making changes to address the flaws highlighted in court, including:
- Providing financial incentives for relatives to become licensed foster parents
- Strengthen review at local child welfare offices of maltreatment that occurs while children are in foster care
- Add oversight of child abuse and neglect complaints that don't meet the criteria for investigation under state law
DHHS director Robert Gordon, who was appointed in January, said child welfare workers can use data to improve their work despite the problems with MiSACWIS.
"Our staff are deeply dedicated to serving children and families in crisis," he said in a press release. "They need the tools and the systems to succeed. That’s what we must offer them."
Wheaton said the department will determine how it will fix the MiSACWIS program before the next court hearing, scheduled June 27.
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2 comments:
questioning the accuracy of this as Unisys is NOT a foreign entity. You list its headquartered in Pennsylvania and is a Delaware based corporation.
good read
https://opencorporates.com/companies?jurisdiction_code=&q=unisys&utf8=%E2%9C%93
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