Partners for Our Children develops technology to reduce ponderous paperwork

Partners for Our Children, a group out of the UW's School of Social Work, is trying to solve the problem of Washington state child welfare workers overwhelmed by ponderous paperwork. A new POC-developed software system, called Oliver, is designed to bring child welfare out of the days of pen, paper and fax machines and finally into 2016, with a suite of products that will result in a streamlined process for collecting, storing and sharing information about each child — as well as ways to analyze that data to improve the services they offer.