(Youth and) Family Services
Overview
The existence of this domain is in recognition that Juvenile Justice is different from criminal justice in the adult arena. It also recognizes and supports the vital linkages between juvenile justice and the Web of supporting health, human, and social services agencies.
Programs/Lines of Business Supported
This new NIEM domain was built on the extensions to NIEM that developers created to support exchanges in child welfare and child support enforcement cases. Specifically, the National Center for State Courts has partnered with two distinct initiatives within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families (ACF):
- The Children's Bureau–Division of State Systems built a series of IEPDs for the timely exchange of information between state child welfare systems and the local systems and agencies with which they must interact.
- The Office of Child Support Enforcement built a NIEM-conformant data model of the data that courts need to exchange with social services agencies.
NIEM Domain Content
Click here to download the NIEM 2.1 schemas as a .zip file.
Domain Stewardship
Two agencies within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families (ACF) have teamed up with the National Center for State Courts to create this new domain.
Contact Information
For additional information about this domain, please contact the National Information Sharing Standards help desk at nisshelp@ijis.org.
