Child Welfare Data, Services and Management

Child Placing Agencies, Lead Agencies, Community Based Care Agencies, Government Contracted Child Welfare Services and Managed Care Organizations that provide and manage the recruitment and licensing of foster parents and institutional providers, process the placement of children in foster care and approve services for clients according to case plans and mandated court items can take advantage of DMSS' Consulting Services. DMSS can help to customize your process and procedures. DMSS can help your organization track staff and outcomes on your service population, manage the cost structure of your services and generate detailed service and financial views on any segment of your system of care.


Departmental Consulting

DMSS offers all the components required to provide the core data management functionality of a child welfare agency that works with any combination of foster parent/institutional recruitment, licensing and placement of children in foster care. The current consulting segments include:

  • Admissions/New to Care Management
  • Foster Parent Inquiry Management
  • Foster Parent Recruitment
  • Client Referral Management
  • Utilization Management
  • Placement Management
  • Provider/Foster Home Demographics
  • Client Demographics
  • Clinical/Administrative Notes
  • Case Management/Ongoing Services
  • Foster Home Licensing Management
  • Operations Reporting
  • Training & Staff Development
  • Licensing Complaints
  • Administrative Quality Assurance
  • Purchase Management
  • Resource & Donations Management
  • Integrated Financial and Service Views



    • DMSS' software systems have been consolidated under the Xyrcle brand of services for child welfare and human services organizations.

    If you are only interested in software products please visit Xyrcle .

    Xyrcle is a new consolidated brand that brings together all DMSS' software and tools for child welfare organizations.

    Xyrcle offers Lead Agency Management Systems, Foster Parent Recruitment, Child Placing Agency Management, Foster Parent and Provider Licensing and Re-Licensing, Utilization Management for Child Welfare Organizations, Basic Client Information System and Residential Group Home Systems in stand alone and integrated models.

    Since our products are web-based (we also have a version that runs on your local network), we provide integrated security, backups and redundancy. So you do not need to upgrade or change your current systems or burden your IT department to use our software. If you can see this web page without any problems you can use our products.

    Microsoft Windows Mac OS X Linux/Unix

    Development Consulting

    DMSS offers development, expansion and reorganization consulting for child welfare agencies

  • Change Management Consulting
  • Geographical Expansion
  • Services and Employee Surveillance
  • Department Downsizing
  • Department Merge
  • Agency/Organization Services Merge
  • Contracts Management and Oversight
  • Contract Takeover
  • Contract Bids
  • Accreditation Consulting
  • Unrequested Proposals for Services
  • Live Testing of Employee/Services
  • Site Build Out Consulting
  • Operations Consulting
  • Services Conversion
  • Service Design
  • Myers-Briggs Based Assessments
  • Department/Program/Service Audit
  • Utilization Management Audit
  • Vendor Audit
  • Operations Management
  • Services and Client Costs
  • Policies and Procedures
  • Grants and Proposal Writing