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FreeWIS — Free Well-Being Information System

FreeWIS is a child welfare data system built to the CCWIS rule. Its AI assistant is Dio, the child welfare dog. Describe the work in plain language, review what Dio proposes, and approve what enters the record.

You talk. Dio does the paperwork.

What brings you here?

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Getting in

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PLAY is open to adults 18 and older with a Google sign-in, on the web or in the FreeWIS app for Android. The iPhone and iPad app is coming to the App Store.

Synthetic cases only. Do not put real information in it.

Open PLAY →

Start at FreeWIS, open PLAY, sign in with Google, and enter the caseworker workspace. See where your cases, saved conversations and new chats are organized. The cases and people shown are fictional.

See it work

Work a caseload.

Open PLAY and work through a caseload in a synthetic child welfare system set up to resemble Kansas. Ask Dio what to do next. It can help you do the work and draft what goes into the record for your approval.

Open the Reports pane to see live reporting and review data for the child’s case. The views cover AFCARS, NCANDS, FFPSA, NYTD, ICWA, CFSR and Title IV-E, where applicable.

Follow one synthetic case: ask about upcoming visits, review the current placement, discuss case plan goals, and request a document. The conversation and case information stay together. The cases and people shown are fictional.

The code and the costs

The code comes at no charge.

Qualifying public child welfare agencies can request a versioned source package with no license fee or required service contract. Your agency pays for what it takes to run the system, including hosting, staff and maintenance.

See what’s included and who qualifies on GET →

Atomic Compliance

Matt thinks about child welfare data and compliance like an atom.

Casework begins as words, passes through what the state requires, and resolves into federal data around one fact stored once. FreeWIS is built that way: three layers around one nucleus, every datum kept where it belongs and never copied outward.

The FreeWIS atom, cut in half.

Follow the three layers from the outside in.

The atom, cut in half and seen from the sideThree nested layers on the cut face: the narrative cloud on the outside, a state’s shell inside it, and the federal nucleus at the center. A dashed path runs inward across each layer in turn to a datum held once at the center of the nucleus.…dropped by the home this morning……she said school has been better since……the sisters were placed together……follow-up at the clinic next week…the cutthe narrative clouda state’s shellthe federal nucleusthe wordsthe citationsthe elementsfrom the outside indate of birth

  1. outermost

    The narrative cloud

    Casework arrives as paragraphs and sentences — and what policy asks is answered from them, by summary.

  2. inside it

    A state’s shell

    What state law requires documented — the citation lives with the value.

  3. at the center

    The federal nucleus

    The data federal reports require. When an outer layer needs a datum the nucleus already holds — date of birth is asked for at every layer — it lives here once, never duplicated.

Read it from the outside in: the words, then the citations, then the elements.

More on Atomic Compliance coming soon.