Head Start Services
Cleverex Systems has performed many important contracts for the US
Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children
and Families. We have maintained a long standing relationship with the Office
of Head Start (OHS). We are currently developing and maintaining
the Early Childhood Learning and Knowledge Center (ECLKC) system.
Back in the mid 90's, we developed the benchmark system called Head Start
Family Information System (HSFIS). This automated case management
software has been used by more than 1,000 Head Start agencies to track
services delivered to about 400,000 of our nation's most vulnerable
children and their families annually. In 2000, we migrated the
desktop-based HSFIS to an online web-based product called, Program
Resources and Outcomes Management Information System (PROMIS). We
have been providing technical assistance, training and support for these
products. Tens of thousands of staff from Head Start programs across the
nation have attended our training sessions. Additionally, we
maintain a well-staffed 1-800 technical assistance help desk.
In a highly competitive procurement process, Cleverex Systems was
selected by the Maryland Governor's Office for Children,
(GOC) to re-engineer the state's
results-oriented information system that tracks services delivered
to at-risk children by the largely county-based Local Management
Boards. This Maryland's new system is entirely web-based and builds
on a similar but smaller system called SMART that Cleverex Systems developed for
the Family League of Baltimore City.
Cleverex Systems was chosen by the ACF Grants Office
to develop a new web-based software application to enhance the
efficiency of the ACF discretionary grant award process. In a
related effort, Cleverex Systems is participating in an important
new initiative by the national Office of Head Start called the,
"grants administration and financial management quality improvement
initiative." The first and most important step in this initiative
calls for the automation of the laws and regulations related to Head
Start fiscal issues and the development of written guidance
materials to help Head Start managers implement and meet those
Federal requirements. We have also developed a web-based knowledge
management system called, "The Head Start Fiscal Assistant," that
helps local Head Start and Early Head Start programs exercise
proper stewardship of Federal dollars. Using the Head Start Fiscal
Assistant as their foundation, later steps in the initiative will
include enhanced training, identification of best practices, and
widespread information dissemination.
Through a subcontract with the American Institutes for Research
(AIR), Cleverex Systems was instrumental in providing additional
support services to the Office of Head Start. Under this
subcontract, we provided extensive technical assistance,
training, and programming support to two important applications used
by the Program Operations Branch in the Head Start Bureau, namely,
the Program Review Instrument and Systems Monitoring (PRISM)
application and the Grant Application and Budget Instrument (GABI).
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