Human Services

You can find CMA at the upcoming ISM Conference, which focuses on IT Solutions Management for Human Services, being held September 26-29,2021 in Cincinnati, Ohio.

CMA will attend the 2021 MESConference, which focuses on exchanging ideas related to Medicaid systems, being held August 9-12 in Boston, MA.  

CMA to further manage the successful WIC Management Information System HANDS under new Arizona contract.

The latest #HSITAGgivesback project raises more than $6,000 (and counting) for the Covenant House.

When COVID-19 increased pressure on New Jersey’s low-income communities, the state wanted to ensure food assistance support accessibility.

CMA has continued work, uninterrupted, through COVID-19 shutdowns across the country.

CMA has 30 years of experience implementing and supporting WIC systems across the country, including NJ WoW in New Jersey. 

CMA has supported the WIC community for 30 years. This week, when a bill passed that includes $500 million in additional funding for WIC (among many other provisions/tactics) in response to COVID-19, our team knew it had to step up once again.

CMA Executive Vice President Gary Davis was recently selected by the Executive Council of CompTIA’s Human Service IT Advisory Group (HSITAG) to represent the council’s interests on the planning committee for the 2019 ISM Annual Conference. 

CMA will attend the National WIC Association’s Annual Education and Training Conference & Exhibits in Baltimore, Maryland next week. 

As members of CompTIA’s Human Services IT Advisory Group (HSITAG), CMA will attend the upcoming monthly business meeting and networking reception in New York City.

This past spring, CMA and the Arizona WIC Consortium continued the roll-out of eWIC and electronic benefits transfer (EBT) system. 

In 2001, CMA developed the Arizona in Motion (AIM) program, a system to modernize and automate their WIC services. 

After a three-month period of pilot operations, CMA (in collaboration with the Arizona Department of Health Services) began a state-wide rollout of the new HANDS system, which replaces the award-winning AIM system.

Arizona Business Daily recently featured CMA’s work launching eWIC and rolling out EBT compliance into HANDS, two and a half years ahead of the federal mandate.

In a recent MIS Alternatives Analysis Study presented at the 2017 NWA WIC Technology Conference, local agency staff was asked to evaluate five WIC MIS Systems, including HANDS.