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Dept. of Human Services Children and Teens

The OR-Kids Project


Acronyms

 

The following is a quick reference for acronyms used in the OR-Kids Project. 

 

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A

96-272

Adoption assistance program Instituted through Public Law 96-272 in 1980

AAICPC

Association of Administrators of the ICPC

ABIS

Automated Budget Information System (Replaced by ORBITS)

ACF

Administration of Children and Families

ACH

Automatic Clearing House

ADP

Average Daily Population

ADPICS

Advanced Purchasing and Inventory Control System

AES

Advanced Encryption Standard

AFCARS

Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System

AFDC

Aid to Families with Dependent Children

AFS

Adult and Family Services (defunct)

AKSAS

Alaska State Accounting System

AMS

Application Maintenance and Support (in OIS)

APD

Advanced Planning Document

APDU

Advanced Planning Document Update

ARMS

Adoption Recruitment Management System

ART

Addiction Recovery Teams

ASFA

Adoption and Safe Families Act

ASQ

American Society for Quality

B   

B2B

Business to Business

B2G

Business to Government

BCP

Business Continuity Plan

BGAS

Boys and Girls Aid Society

BRS

Behavior Rehabilitation Services (at OYA) (another source says: Behavioral Residential
 Service)

C

CAB

Change Advisory Board

Cabinet

Oregon - Heads of each cluster (Oregon structure)

CACR

Center for Advanced Computing Research

CADC

Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor

CAF

Children, Adults, and Families

CAPTA

Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act

CB

Children’s Bureau in ACF

CBA

Cost Benefit Analysis

CBT

Computer based training

CCD

Child Care Division

CCEVS

Criteria Evaluation and Validation Scheme

CD

Compact Disc

CDMA

Code-Division Multiple Access

CEM

Common Evaluation Methodology

CET

Consultant, Education, Trainer (Also called Casework/Education Consultants)

CFCIP

Chafee Foster Care Independence Program

CFR

Code of Federal Regulations

CFS

Child and Family Services

CFSR

Child and Family Service Reviews

CGI-AMS

Consultants to Government and Industry-American Management Systems

CHC

Criminal History Check

CHS

Community and Human Services (also Center for Health Statistics)

CI

Client Index

CICS

Customer Information Control System

CIO

Chief Information Officer

CIRT

Critical Incident Response Team

CISA

Certified Information Sytems Auditor

CISSP

Certified Information Systems Security Professional

Client Index

DHS database for client demographic data

Cluster

Oregon - Equates with working unit

CMC

Case Management Coordinator

CMS

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

CMS

Client Management System (TANF)

CNIC

Computing and Networking Infrastructure Consolidation

COA

Council of Accreditation

CoBit

Control Objectives for Information and related Technologies

COBOL

Common Business Oriented Language

COP

Certificate of Participation

COTS

Commercial Off the Shelf

CPS

Child Protective Services

CQA

Certified Quality Auditor

CR

Carriage Return

CRB

Citizen Review Board

CRC

Community Resources Coordinator

CRM

Customer Resource Management (previous name for NCS)
(also:  Customer Relationship Management)

CRRTS

Certification Recruitment and Retention Tracking System

CSD

Former reference to Children's Services Division

CSDM

Child Support Decision Modeling

CSE

Child Support Enforcement

CSEAS

Child Support Enforcement Automated System (IV-D)

CSND

Community Safety Net Database

CSS

Customer Service and Support (in OIS)

CTP

Comprehensive Transition Plan

CW

Child Welfare

CWPMLC

Child Welfare Practice Model Leadership Committee

CWPMSC

Child Welfare Practice Model Steering Committee (previous name of CWPMLC)

CWS

Child Welfare Services

CWXML

Child Welfare Extensible Markup Language

D

DARTS

Day and Residential Treatment Services (Mental health(?))

DAS

Department of Administrative Services

DB2

DataBase 2, a family of relational database products offered by IBM.

DBMS

Database Management System

DCDC

Detailed Case Data Component (of NCANDS) (See also SDC)

DCS

Division of Child Support (Also called IV-D)

DCYF

Department of Children, Youth, and Families

DD

Developmentally Disabled

DDI

Design, Development and Implementation

DDOS

Distributed Denial of Service

DEC

Drug Endangered Child

Delphi

Rapid Application Development system developed by Borland International, Inc, based
on the Pascal programming language.

DHHS

Department of Health and Human Services

DHS

Department of Human Services

DIS

Detailed Implementation Schedule

DMZ

Demilitarized Zone

DoD

Department of Defense

DOJ

Department of Justice

DRM

Data Resource Management (also Defect Removal Model)

DRP

Disaster Recovery Plan

DSO

Disability Service Office

DSS

Division of State Systems

DTD

Document Type Definition

E

EBCDIC

Extended Binary-Coded Decimal Interchange Code

E-Board

Emergency Board (convenes 6 times per biennium to handle emergency budget requests)

EDGE

Enhanced Data GSM Environment

EDMS

Electronic Document Management System

EDRS

Electronic Death Registration System

EHLLAPI

screen scraping

EHLLAPI

Emulator High Level Language Application Programming Interface

EMS

Emergency Medical Services

EOF

End Of File

ERDC

Employment Related Day Care

ERP

Enterprise Resource Planning

ETV

Education and Training Voucher Program

EV-DO

Evolution-Data Only

eWiOR-Kids

Wisconsin Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information System

F

FACIS

Family And Children Information System

FBS

Family Based Services

FCIA

Foster Care Independence Act

FDM

Family Decision Meeting

FFP Rate

Federal Financial Participation (a percent)

FIPS

Federal Information Processing Standards

FPA

Finance and Policy Analysis (Office of)

FRED

Foster Recruitment Electronic Data (also called Fostercare Recruitment Entry Database (per Phil Whitt, the creator))

FRITS

FACIS Request and Incident Tracking System

FRS

Federal Requirements Specification

FRS

Functional Requirements Specification

FS

Food Stamps

FS&C

Family Support and Connections

FTP

File Transfer Protocol

FUM

Family Unity Meeting

G

G2G

government to government

GAO

Governor’s Advocacy Office (also Government Accountability Office (for Congress))

GAP

Guided Assessment Process

GHz

gigahertz

GJXML

Global Justice Extensible Markup Language

GPG

Gnu Privacy Guard

GPRS

General Packet Radio Services.

GSM

Global System for Mobile Communication

GSM/GPRS

Global System for Mobile Communication/General Packet Radio Services

HO

Hispanic Origin

HAS

Human Services Assistant

HIPAA

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

HR

Human Resources

HSS

Health Services Specialists

HTML

HyperText Markup Language

HTTP

Hypertext Transfer Protocol

HZA

Hornby Zeller and Associates, Inc.

IAPD

Implementation Advanced Planning Document

IBM

International Business Machines

ICJ

Interstate Compact on Juveniles

ICPC

Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children

ICWA

Indian Child Welfare Act

ID

Identity

IDS

Intrusion Detection System   need context ????????

IIS

Integrated Information System

ILP

Independent Living

ILP

Independent Living Program

ILP-CH

Independent Living Program -- Chafee Housing Services

ILSP

Independent Living Subsidy Program

IMS

IBM's transactional and hierarchical database management system

IMS

Information Management Services

inkML

Ink Markup Language

IP

Internet Protocol

IPP

Integrated Project Plan

IPSEC

Internet Protocol Security

IPV

Intentional Program Violations (also Intimate Partner Violence)

IRMD

Information Resources Management Division

IRR

Information Resource Request

ISACA

Information Systems Audit and Control Association

ISE

Information Systems Engineering

ISECOM

Institute for Security and Open Methodologies

ISM

Information System Management (Councils)

ISO

Information Security Office (IN DHS)

IT

Information Technology

IV-A

Title IV of Social Security Act, Part A – Block Grants for States TANF

IV-B

Title IV of SSA, Part B – Child and Family Services

IV-D

Title IV of SSA, Part D – Child Support and Establishment of Paternity

IV-E

Title IV of SSA, Part E – Fed. Payments for Foster Care and Adoption Assistance

IV-E Waiver

The Title IV-E Waiver Project is a federally approved demonstration project that provides states the authority to design and test a wide range of new approaches to the delivery of child welfare services in order to improve outcomes for children.

JAD

Joint Application Design

JCAHO

Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations

JFS

Journal File System

JLCIMT

Joint Legislative Committee on Information Management and Technology

JOBS

Job Opportunity & Basic Skills

JOMIS

Juvenile Offender Management Information System

JRP

Juvenile Rights Project

JSP

Java Server Pages

KSA

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

LAE

Local Area Expert

LAN

local area network

LAP

Legal Assistance Program

LAR

Legal Assistance Referral

LAS

Legal Assistance Specialist

LD

Limited Duration (as opposed to Permanent) -- recruiting term

LDAP

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

LEA

Law Enforcement Agencies

LEA

Law Enforcement Agency

LEDS

Law Enforcement Data System

LF

Line Feed

LFO

Legislative Fiscal Office

MathML

Math Markup Language

MBA

Masters in Business Adminstration

Mbps

Mega Bits Per Second

MDT

Multi-Disciplinary Team

MEPA

Multiethnic Placement Act of 1994

MMIS

Medicaid Management Information System

MOE

Maintenance of Effort

MSO

Multi-Service Office

MTG

MTG Management Consultants, L.L.C.

MTP

Master Test Plan

MVS-JCL

Multiple Virtual Storage - Job Control Language

NAIC

National Adoption Information Clearinghouse

NCAANDS

See NCANDS

NCANDS

National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System

NCS

Network and Computer Services (also National Children’s Study)

NHPRI

Rhode Island Interface with the Neighborhood Health Plan of RI

NIAP

National Information Assurance Partnership

NIST

National Institute of Standards and Technology

NOC/SOC

Network Operations Center/Systems Operations Center

NRCCM

National Resource Center on Child Maltreatment

NRCCPS

National Resource Center for Child Protective Services

NRC-CWDT

National Resource Center for Child Welfare Data and Technology

NRC-ITCW

National Resource Center for IT in Child Welfare (now NRC-CWDT)

NYTD

National Youth in Transition Database

OAM

Oregon Accounting Manual

OAR

Oregon Administrative Rules

OASIS

Organization for Structured Information Standards

OATS

Oregon Automated Tax System (also OIS Application Testing System)

OCM

Organizational Change Management

OCP

Oregon Children's Plan (also Oregon Corrections Plan)

OCR

Optical Character Recognition (or Office of Civil Rights)

OFS

Office of Financial Services

OHC

Out of Home Care

OHP

Oregon Health Plan

OIS

Office of Information Services

OJD

Oregon Judicial Department

OJD

Oregon Justice Department

OMAP

Oregon Medical Assistance Program (Title XIX)

OMB

Office of Management and Budget

OPE

Other Personnel Expenses--like workers' comp, social security, medical and dental,
mass transit---the fringe benefits.

ORBIT

Oregon Repository – Bring Information Together (or Oregon Road base Information
Team or they mean ORBITS)

ORBITS

Oregon Budget Information Tracking System

ORCA

Alaska Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information System

ORCA

Oregon Rehabilitation Case Automation (also Online Resources for the
Children of Alaska)

ORCP

Oregon Rules of Civil Procedure

ORPARC

Oregon Post Adoption Resource Center

ORS

Oregon Revised Statutes

OS

operating system

OSSTMM

Open Source Security Testing Methodology Manual

OVRS

Office of Vocational Rehabilitation Services

OWASP

Open Web Application Security Project

OWL

Web Ontology Language

OYA

Oregon Youth Authority

PAN

Personal Area Network

PAPD

Planning Advance Planning Document

PCA

Program Cost Account

PDF

Portable Document Format

PERT

Program Evaluation Review Technique

PIN

personal identification number

PIP

Program Improvement Plan

PKI

Public Key Infrastructure

PL

Person Letter

PMBOK

Project Management Body of Knowledge

PMI

Project Management Institute

PMO

Project Management Office

PMP

Project Management Professional

PMR

Provider and Misc. Receivables Unit (of DHS/OFS)

POP

Policy Option Package (goes to legislature for approval)

PPDB

Position Personnel Database

PPR

Program, Performance and Reporting (PSS is part of PPR)

PRM

Professional Risk Management

PRWORA

Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act

PS

Protective Services (AKA CPS)

PSB

Program Specification Block

PSS

Program Systems Support

PSTN

Public Switched Telephone Network

PUG

Project User Group

QA

Quality Assurance

QC

Quality Control

QM

Quality Management

QMP

Quality Management Plan

QoS

Quality of Service

R*STARS

Relational Statewide Accounting and Reporting System

RACF ID

Resource Access Control Facility identification code

RBAC

Role-Based Access Control

RDBMS

Relational Database Management System

RDF

Resource Description Framework

RD-LAP

Radio Data-Link Access Procedure

RFI

Request For Information

RFID

Radio Frequency Identification

RFP

Request For Proposals

RICHIST

Rhode Island OR-Kids system

RMS

Random Moment Sample

ROI

Return on Investment

RRS

Recovery Services Section (for court ordered support)

RSS

Really Simple Syndication

SACWIS

Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information System (Now the OR-Kids project)

SAN/NAS

Storage Area Network / Network Attached Storage

SAP

SAP is a software company that engages in the development, marketing, sale, and support of enterprise application software products for corporations, governmental agencies, and educational institutions.

SARGe

OR-Kids Assessment Review Guide

SDA

Service Delivery Area (There are 16 in Oregon)

SDC

State Data Center

SDC

Summary Data Component (of NCANDS)

SDLC

Systems Development LifeCycle

SFMA

Statewide Financial Management Application

SFMS

Statewide Financial Management Services (also Statewide Financial Management System -- they mean SFMA)

SHA-1

Secure Hash Algorithm - Version 1.0

SLA

Service Level Agreement

Smalltalk

An object oriented programming language

SME

Subject Matter Expert(s)

SMS

Short Message Service

SNAC

Special Needs Adoption Coalition

SNB

Strength/Needs Based

SOAP

Simple Object Access Protocol

SOC

System of Care

SOS

Secretary of State

SOSCF

State Office for Services to Children and Families (abolished by Legislature in 2001)

SOW

Statement of Work

SPD

Seniors and People with Disabilities

SPOTS

Small Purchase Order Transaction System

SPSS

Statistical Package for the Social Sciences

SQL

Structured Query Language

SQR

SQR is a programming language specifically designed for SQL database.

SS

Self Sufficiency

SSA

Social Security Administration, or Social Service Assistant

SSI

Strategic Systems Initiatives

SSID

Service Set Identifier

SSIS

SQL Server Integration Services

SSL

Secure Socket Layer

SSN

Social Security Number

SSP

Self-Sufficiency Program

SuD

System under Discussion

Sybase

A relational DBMS

TAM

Tivoli Access Manager

TANF

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (Title IV-A) (previously AFDC)

TBAC

Task Based Authorization Controls

TBD

To Be Determined

TCM

Targeted Case Management

TDM

Team Decision Meeting

TIM

DHS Tivoli Identity Manager

Title IV-A

TANF

Title IV-D

Child Support Enforcement

Title XIX 

Title XIX of the Social Security Act:  Grants to States for Medical Assistance Programs

TPCC

Target Problem Child Committee

TRACS

Transition, Referral and Client Self-Sufficiency System (TANF)

TTY

Teletype

UDDI

Universal Description, Discovery and Integration

UI

User Interface

URI

Uniform Resource Identifier

V & V

Validation and Verification

VPN

Virtual Private Network

VSAM

Virtual Storage Access Method

WAN

Wide Area Network

WAW

Welfare Assistance Worker

WCDMA

Wideband Code Division Multiple Access

WEP

Wired Equivalent Privacy

WiMAX

Worldwide Interoperability of broadband wireless products

WiMedia

Media High data rate wireless multimedia networking applications

WLAN

Wireless Local Area Network

WMAN

Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks

WPA

Wi-Fi Protected Access

XBase

XBase is a term for languages derived from the dBASE III+ language

XForms

An XML application that represents the next generation of forms for the Web

XHTML

Extensible HyperText Markup Language

XIX

Title XIX

XLink

Specification for specifying links between documents

XML

Extensible Markup Language

XPath

Language for addressing parts of an XML document

XPointer

Language for addressing into the internal structures of XML documents

XQuery

XML Query Language

XSL

Extensible Stylesheet Language

XSL-FO

Extensible Stylesheet Language – Formatting Objects

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Page updated: March 11, 2008

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