CT Judicial BranchCourt Support Services Division

What is CDCS?

• CSSD’s Contractor Data Collection System

• A secure, user friendly, web-based data collection tool

• An evidenced-based on-going quality improvement tool

Assessment Treatment Outcomes

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

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

offender behavior

Referral

When coupled with CSSD’s Case Management

Information System and recidivism data, CDCS

provides a comprehensive picture

CSSD’s CMIS

Recidivism Data

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

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)

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

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 don’t complete)

• Client Level Reports (such as discharge reports and progress reports)