Hudson Consulting and Training
Child welfare IT, federal compliance, and software built from two decades of doing the work.
— or just keep reading —
HCT products
A child welfare system you can try. Public judicial records you can examine. Both built by Hudson Consulting and Training.
Child welfare software
A child welfare data system built to the Comprehensive Child Welfare Information System (CCWIS) rule. Talk with Dio in plain language, review proposed changes, and approve what enters the case record.
Try PLAY with a synthetic caseload. Qualifying public child welfare agencies can inquire about source code at no charge for their own implementation through GET.
Public judicial records
Official judicial performance evaluations and judicial election results, organized by state and traced to the documents they came from.
Colorado is live. Other state collections open as their records are collected and verified. Read the sources and examine the record for yourself.
The practitioner
I’m Matthew Hudson. For most of my career I’ve worked on the systems states use to keep track of the children in their care — the federal data systems, the compliance behind them, and the procurements that pay for them.
I’ve reviewed state programs as a federal program specialist at the Children’s Bureau, worked with agencies on procurements and implementation, and built the software itself. I also spent part of my adolescence in foster care. That experience matters; the work is turning what I know into systems people can actually use.
Policy, data, and working software belong in the same conversation.
most of what makes these systems hard isn’t the law — it’s the manufactured complexity layered on top. taking that back out is the work.
What I do on a project
CCWIS, AFCARS, NCANDS, NYTD, Title IV-E and IV-B, CAPTA, ICWA. I turn the federal requirements into something a development team can build to — and defend in a federal review.
RFPs, evaluation and demonstration processes, Advance Planning Documents. The documents a project is graded on, drafted by someone who has sat on both sides of the table.
Requirements, process maps, gap analysis, data mapping — business analysis grounded in how child welfare casework actually works, not how a template says it should.
Readiness, stakeholder engagement, training, sustainment. The part that decides whether a system gets used — and the part most contracts price too thin.
The work
Two decades in child welfare, in two eras — the systems work, and the youth-development work the belief came from.
Seven states and a tribal nation.
Two decades of work, in two eras. Hover a state — or a line below — for what the work was.
Eight years as Hudson Consulting and Training. Two decades in child welfare. One specialty.
Reach Matt
A procurement to respond to, a system to build, a federal review to prepare for. It comes straight to me — and you’ll hear back from me.
matthew@hudsonct.comDenver, Colorado