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Safe Measures

SafeMeasures is a Web service for local departments of social services (LDSS). The service extracts data from OASIS twice each week and arranges into reports that highlight Transformation outcomes and other measures that are important to improving practice at the local level. SafeMeasures not only allows local users to view their agencies’ performance as a whole across all measures, but also allows for breakdown by supervisors, individual workers, and finally the client level.

Safe Measures is a response to long-standing LDSS requests for greater access to the data that they record in OASIS.  With its ease of use and powerful reporting capabilities, Safe Measures not only makes that data available but enhances it significantly. Safe Measures is intended for localities to use as part of their own efforts to improve quality and performance. Safe Measures is being provided to the state for SFY 2010-2011 through a generous grant from Casey Family Programs. Our continued use of the tool thereafter, at state expense, will be determined in large part by how much localities use it and how much value it adds from the local perspective.

Reports currently available in SafeMeasures:

Caseload Management

• Primary Assignments by Case Type
• Assignments by Role (Primary/Secondary)

Cases

• Case Type Time Open

 
Placements

• Placement Care Types
• Foster Care Monthly Worker Visits
• Placement Discharge - Reason
• Placement Discharge - Length of Stay (From Last Removal Date)
• Placement Discharge - Length of Stay (From Last Setting Entry Date)
• Active Foster Care - Length of Stay (From Last Removal Date)
• Active Foster Care - Length of Stay (From Last Setting Entry Date)
• Active Foster Care - Placement Locality
• Active Foster Care - Placement Zip Code

 
Data Issues

• Open Cases Without Assignments
• Open Cases That May Contain Duplicate Clients
• Open Placements Without a Valid Case
• Open Trial Home Visits Without a Valid Placement

 

Referrals

• Referral Time Open
• Time from Referral to Disposition
• Time from Disposition to Closure
• Time to First Attempted Contact
• Time to First Completed Contact
• Time to First Contact Entry
• Recurrence of Maltreatment (Six Months)
• Recurrence of Maltreatment (One Year)
• Recurrence of Maltreatment (Two Years)

 

Upcoming Reports Include:

• CPS Ongoing Contacts
• Child Visits with Biological Family
• TPR Pipeline
• AREVA Registration
• Placement with Siblings
• And many more.

 

Why You Should be Using SafeMeasures