The Strengthening Abuse and Neglect Courts Act (SANCA) project provided a challenging opportunity for Courts to find creative ways, within an automated management information system, to implement performance measures, develop case tracking capabilities and perform other related management information system functions specifically for child abuse and neglect (dependency) litigation.

The Courts involved in the SANCA project had two years to modify or create an automated information system allowing them access to data that could be use to generate dependency court performance measures (e.g. safety, permanency, timeliness and due process outcome measures). The SANCA project wasfunded by the Office of Justice Programs, Office of juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, and project site technical assistance was administered under the guidance of three partner organizations: the National Council for Juvenile and Family Court Judges, the American Bar Association, and the National Center for State Courts.

The information presented on this website is a compilation or chronicle of that two year effort by the Courts involved - it includes information and implementation lessons learned obtained from extensive interviews with project site stakeholders, a review of project materials including site reports and products, as well as a review of reports of the partnering agencies who directed the project.

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