The Administration for Children's Services, one of the largest Child Welfare agencies in the country, is responsible for serving children and their families in the City of New York. ACS's mission is to ensure the safety and well-being of New York City's children.

We were contracted by ACS to deliver a wide range of program and technical services including policy specialists, training, applications development, and information technology infrastructure.

Program Specialists

CMA provides senior program specialist services to develop, implement and administer programs to support a diverse range of services offered by the Agency including the investigation on average of 55,000 reports of abuse or neglect each year; programs to help families in need through counseling, drug rehabilitation referral programs and other preventive services; trains foster parents and caregivers to provide safe homes for children living in foster care; youth development and permanency for teens and adolescents; and childcare and Head Start programs for approximately 80,000 children throughout the City.

Application Development Services

CMA provides a range of application development and maintenance services for critical ACS systems including their Preventive Organization Management Information System (PROMIS) and interfaces with other systems including NYS' Child Welfare System (CONNECTIONS), Welfare Management System (WMS), and Child Care Review System (CCRS). The supporting application development technologies include ASP, JSP, JavaScript and VBScript, database development in Oracle and SQL Server 7.0, Windows 9.x and NT/2000 environments.

Technology Services

CMA has provided hardware implementation and support for ACS SUN Solaris server environment. This technical infrastructure supports a variety of application and over 7,400 users throughout the five boroughs in more than 50 locations.

Hardware and Software

Microsoft NT 4.0 Client and Windows 2000, Microsoft NT 4.0 Server, and Point to Point T1/T3 TCP/IP, Oracle databases, Oracle development tools, Java, Visual Basic, Sun Solaris Servers, Wide Area Network, Frame Relay, TCP/IP