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Case Study - Supporting the
State of Michigan Build One Stop Community Systems
The Challenge:
A continual influx of job applications,
work requests, and training needs were handled through Mediated
Services, Welfare, JTPA plus other State and Federal programs managed
by 25 separate MichWorks! agencies. Each agency was left to
their own devices to manage the information related to applicants,
employers, and services delivered. Resumes and Job Listings were not
integrated with the agency record systems. Agencies were not able to
view services provided for their clients at other agencies across
the state. Our challenge: join the State of Michigan IT team to
deliver a next generation system.
The Solution: In partnership with
the Michigan Department of Career Development we built a statewide,
Internet-based service that provided the MichWorks! staff
members’ access to workforce development information that is
multi-tiered and accessible via browsers. The solution was to
provide a One-Stop Community System. Special security
policies directed appropriate accessibility to staff resources. An reporting
infrastructure module was set in place which facilitated easy maintenance and the monitoring
and running of new and existing reports. An elaborate migration plan
included training and gradual conversion of the 25 offices to the
new application.
Results: Some of the specific
benefits for the customer were:
- Tight integration between MWA (Workforce Boards)
and Employment Service Agency data and operations, in a secure
framework.
- Ability to view statewide data across all
programs, while rights to edit stays with each MWA. This reduces
data redundancy, minimizes or eliminates fraud, and provides a
holistic view for every case management, resulting in better
customer service.
- Integration with the Job Bank and the Talent Bank
allows the actual enforcement of a variety of business
rules such as eligibility criteria for participants and for the
provision of services.
- Intranet-Internet based system architecture
technology dramatically reduces administrative, maintenance and
system overhead costs.
- Easy to use interface makes training cost
effective and easy.
- Introduction of tight security protocol and
auditing procedures allows systems to track all transactions and
the staff members who performed them.
- Automation of all Federal 9002 Reports.
- State-of-the-art reporting framework for both
pre-defined as well as custom on-line reports.
- Centralized and secure administration of data.
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