(Youth and) Family Services
Overview
The inaugural content for the Family Services Domain—part of NIEM 2.1’s release in September 2009—was extracted from extension schema specifying national reference models for six data exchanges between courts and child-support enforcement agencies and between courts and child welfare agencies. The purpose of this domain is to support timely, complete, accurate, and efficient information sharing among the partners that can help improve outcomes for children whose circumstances make them particularly vulnerable.
Programs/Lines of Business Supported
The National Judicial-Child Support Task Force, sponsored by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Children and Families’ Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE), developed two IEPDs using NIEM’s predecessor, the Global Justice XML Data Model. The task force included representatives from state and tribal CSE agencies and courts, staff from OCSE’s regional and central offices, and the National Center for State Courts (NCSC). The Initial Request for Remedy IEPD describes the agency’s case-initiation message to the court; the Child Support Order describes the court’s findings and judgment concerning the financial responsibilities of a child’s noncustodial parent.
The Court/Child Welfare National Exchange Template (NET) Project has developed several IEPDs to describe the exchange of information between a state or local child welfare agency and a court with jurisdiction over child abuse, neglect, and dependency cases. The NET team includes representatives from HHS ACF Children’s Bureau’s Division of State Systems, two of the Children’s Bureau’s National Resource Centers (Child Welfare Data and Technology, and Legal and Judicial Issues), representatives from state and local child welfare agencies and courts, and NCSC.
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.
