Navigating the complex maze of child welfare cases can be challenging. Many different people play many different roles in the life of a child, and these roles and relationships are dymamic and can change over time. A case worker must examine the entire support structure, to include the extended family, teachers, doctors and counselors to determine what is best for the child. Navigating through the data in the graph form not only expedittes the investigation, but can reveal connections between cases that may not have been apparent otherwise.

1. Neo4j in Human Services
Investigating Child Welfare

3. States that share data among child
welfare and education agencies have a
better chance of lessening some of the
barriers foster care students face and
improving student success, according to a
report by the Data Quality Campaign and
the Legal Center for Foster Care and
Education. https://www.govtech.com/education/Sharing-Data-
Key-to-Improving-Foster-Care-Outcomes.html

4. Information collected and maintained in a single
system’s administrative database is limited and, in
itself, cannot provide a fill view of children and families.
Each child- and family-serving agency has a piece of the
puzzle surrounding family and youth well-being, and
without the ability to collaborate across systems the
full mosaic is incomplete. - Shaw, Lee & Farrell 2018