A Hudson Consulting & Training product

FreeWIS
FreeWISFree Welfare Information System

‹ headline — Matt & Maya own this line ›

You describe what happened in plain language. Maude turns it into the record, shows you exactly what she’s filing, and waits for your OK — and the system won’t let an invalid one through. Your whole caseload, no forms to hunt, the paperwork finally on your side.

— or just keep reading —

See it work

Don’t watch a demo. Work a caseload.

Every vendor in this market says their system does this. Ask them to log you in and let you try it. They can’t.

Ask us, and we’ll hand you a made-up county full of made-up families and the real federal rulebook. Open a case. Drop in an intake document. Watch Maude read it, propose the records, and turn down the ones that don’t hold up. Pull a live AFCARS report. See the approval trail for every move you made.

All of it runs on people who don’t exist — on purpose. We built FreeWIS to protect real case data before we ever touched any. So the way you prove it to yourself is to use the real thing on a family we invented.

Free to everybody

CCWIS for everybody.

FreeWIS is free to the agencies that do child welfare — all of them. Every state. Every territory: Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, the rest. Every tribe running or wanting a IV-E system. Counties working under a state plan. Free to use, free to run on your own systems, free to hand to the agency next door.

The market’s answer to a small tribe or a territory has always been “you’re too small to afford one.” That was never true — it was just profitable to say so. FreeWIS is the same system for a six-county tribe and for California.

We’re giving it away because that’s the only honest way to tell you what a child-welfare system is supposed to be. Anyone can sell you a promise. We’d rather hand you the working thing and let you check it against everything you’ve been sold.

For vendors

A note for the consultancies.

Agencies use FreeWIS for free. Nobody gets paid to install it, host it, configure it, or support it without a license from us. That’s on purpose. The eight- and nine-figure implementation contract is exactly what this is built to end.

If there’s ever a real place for certified implementers, we’ll open that door on our terms. Until then it’s free for the people it serves and closed to the people who made it expensive.

Contact us about licensing

Get FreeWIS for your agency

Tell us who you are. We review every one.

Agency, your role, a work email, your state or jurisdiction. Approved agencies get a working environment with a synthetic caseload to try — the licensed download comes once the license is ready.

Request access

v1 stub — the request → approval flow is being designed