State-wide Automated Social Welfare IS (SACWIS)
I have been following various government efforts to organize and improve. Family services prove particularly difficult. The SACWIS effort is one in a long string of failures by the US government, including the Compliance Monitoring System (1971) and the HDS Information Systems Strategy (1979). Jay Silerman lead the SACWIS effort- $2B federal project under HHS to get states up and running. Money was up and out to the field in 1994. All states expected to be up and running by 1996. As of 2005, no state was up and running fully on this system. At best, states were in the opeartional stage. By 2009, many are now operational. See status: click here
