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CDCS Overview
CT Judicial Branch Court Support Services
Division
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What is CDCS?

• CSSDs Contractor Data Collection System
• A secure, user friendly, web-based data
  collection tool
• An evidenced-based on-going quality improvement
  tool

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CDCS Provides Outcome Data (A Critical Part of
the Frameworks for Effective Treatment)
Assessment
Treatment
Outcomes
Referral

• Reduce recidivism
• Enhance community safety
• Instill long term positive change in offender
  behavior

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When coupled with CSSDs Case Management
Information System and recidivism data, CDCS
provides a comprehensive picture
Recidivism Data
CSSDs CMIS
CDCS
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CDCS Allows Data to be Viewed

• At an individual client level
• Aggregated to a specific program location
• Aggregated across an entire program model such as
  an AIC
• Allows comparison across an entire system, such
  as CSSD adult services

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CSSD Models Currently Using CDCS

• ADULT/FAMILY
• Alternative in the Community (AIC)
• STARS (gender specific)
• Family Violence Education Program (FVEP), Evolve,
  Explore
• Adult Behavioral Health Services (ABHS) In
  implementation phase

• JUVENILE
• Youth Equipped for Success (YES)
• Family Support Centers (FSC)
• Center for Assessment, Respite and Enrichment
  (CARE)

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CDCS Data Elements

• CDCS data elements are customized to each service
  model. Typical elements include
• Referral
• Intake
• Assessment
• Services
• Community Based Service Referrals
• Program Discharge

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CDCS allows ad hoc and standardized reporting

• Risk Reduction Indicators (Measures and goals
  selected using the RBA framework)
• Lists (such as active client lists, discharged
  client lists, and wait lists)
• Completion information (such as completion rates
  by location, by demographic categories,
  breakdowns of reasons clients dont complete)
• Client Level Reports (such as discharge reports
  and progress reports)

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Sample Screenshots
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Sample of a Referral Page
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Sample of an Intake Page
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Sample of an Assessment Page
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Sample of a Service Page
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Sample of a Discharge Page