SCSEP WEB DATA COLLECTION SYSTEM WEBSITE

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SPARQ DOCUMENTATION

SPARQ Security Policy
SCSEP DC Handbook
SPARQ Specifications
Data Validation
Transfer Instructions
Non-WDCS Materials

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5/20/2009	SPARQ has been updated with the following:
• The Nationwide QPRs for Regular SCSEP and Recover Act grants are now available.

• Since the table to determine whether a participant is assigned in an area of persistent unemployment changes during the SCSEP program year, two versions of that table ("Values by County, Years 2006-2008" and "Values by County, Years 2005-2007") are now provided on the SPARQ Home Participant Search page and the "Waiver of Durational Limit" section of the enrollment screens in the WDCS.

5/4/2009	In addition to the changes below, we have separately implemented an additional improvement to the Transfer/Change Utility in SPARQ.

Specifically, users with roles of Grantee Administrator will now be able to select any of the grantees for which they have a role as the "To/From Grantee". This will simplify the process of transferring participants from the Regular grant to the Recovery Act grant.

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SPARQ 4.0 is now available for your use. This new version of the system contains the following:

New fields have been added in the WDCS and non-DCS:
  · to allow entry of multiple breaks in service;
  · to collect comments regarding approved breaks;
  · to collect the dates on which the waiver of durational limit factors are updated;
  · to collect reasons for exclusion at follow-ups; and
  · to collect comments regarding customer satisfaction surveys and follow-ups.

Fields to verify that data receiving certain warnings are correct have been added to the non-DCS loader program (these fields will be added to the WDCS and activated in a future release).

The values for P25, Veteran, have been changed to "a. Veteran," "b. Eligible spouse of veteran," and "c. Noncovered person."

New values have be added to P26, Disability, for "Yes, with documentation" and "Yes, self-reported."

Field P43a, Deceased? has been removed, as it has been replaced by E9a, Exclusions discovered after exit.

Fields P55, LEP at waiver, and P56, Low Literacy Skills at waiver, have been made editable.

This release also includes the following changes not previously announced:
  · Users with accounts with roles for more than one grantee, will now be able to filter the Participant Search on the SPARQ Home page.
  · A banner appears at the top of every page in the WDCS, displaying which grant the user is logged in under.
  · A weekly process has been set up so that organizations created within recovery grants will change ownership to their regular grant
       counterparts.

Need Additional Assistance?

For questions about your user ID or password, please contact your grantee administrator.

For WDCS Technical Assistance and End User Support, contact Mathematica Policy Research:

·  By e-mail: SCSEP@Mathematica-MPR.com
       Please include your phone number and Sub-grantee name in your correspondence.
·  For WDCS and SPARQ issues:
       Larry Vittoriano at (609) 945-3373, Terry Cram at (609) 750-3196,
       Shelly Craig at (609) 945-3339, Tim Liao (609) 750-4097, or Matt Potts at (609) 936-3269
·  For general SCSEP data issues:
       Bill Borden at (609) 275-2321

For questions concerning SCSEP data element definitions and how to collect SCSEP data, contact:
The Charter Oak Group at olderworker@charteroakgroup.org,
or visit their website at http://www.charteroakgroup.org/resources/scsep.shtml.

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