Unaccompanied Children Program Policy & Procedure Research Tool
Description
How can the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) research the laws, standards, policies, and procedures applicable to monitoring visits more quickly while maintaining thoroughness? The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) conducts monitoring visits at least monthly to ensure that care providers meet minimum standards for the care and timely release of unaccompanied children, and that they abide by all Federal and State laws and regulations, licensing and accreditation standards, ORR policies and procedures, and child welfare standards. If ORR monitoring finds a care provider to be out of compliance with requirements, ORR issues corrective action findings and requires the care provider to resolve the issue within a specified time frame. Compliance determination involves research into the various laws, standards, policies, and procedures.
Detailed example
Initial assessment of whether a care provider is in compliance with applicable laws, standards, policies, and procedures applicable to the care of unaccompanied children, with an explanation of evidence pulled from monitoring visit reports and the policy documents and accurate citations. AI is not used to suggest corrective actions but rather support determination of whether care providers are in compliance.
AI / analytics pattern
Agentic AI: AI systems that perform tasks or make decisions autonomously with minimal human intervention.
Automation level / stage
b) Pilot – The use case has been deployed in a limited test or pilot capacity.
Expected benefit
Faster issuance of well-informed corrective action findings The goal of the UC Program Policy & Research Tool is to speed up this process as children's health and well-being may be impacted before a corrective action finding is issued and the issue is resolved. The UC Program Policy & Procedure Research Tool speeds up research of relevant laws, standards, policies, and procedures content curated and approved by ORR's policy team. This research is one part of the process that informs ORR's monitoring team's decisions on whether corrective actions are needed and if so, what corrective actions.
Controls / human review
ATO: Yes; PIA: To be posted on https://www.hhs.gov/pia/index.html, pending HHS OCIO action
Data needed
RAG implementation using commercially-available LLMs and curated dataset of applicable laws, standards, policies, and procedures applicable to the care of unaccompanied children