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Netsmart Technologies Signs $900,000 Contract With The State of Nevada's Department of Human Resources Netsmart Will Implement Its Avatar Suite of Products to Nevada's Division of Children and Family Services ISLIP, N.Y., Dec. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Netsmart Technologies, Inc. , a leading supplier of enterprise-wide software for health and human services providers through its wholly owned subsidiary, Creative Socio-Medics (Creative), today announced that Creative has been awarded a $900,000 multi-year contract by the State of Nevada's Division of Children and Family Services. The contract includes software license, professional services, and first-year maintenance agreements to install Creative's Avatar suite of human services software, including practice management and electronic medical records. Jerry Koop, CEO of Creative said, "We believe that the contract with the Nevada Division of Children and Families is significant to Creative in that it's our second contract with the State," Koop said. He went on to say, "We are seeing increased case management requirements across treatment disciplines in the public sector and this win is reflective of this model." The Division of Child and Family Services provides a continuum of mental health related services to severely emotionally disturbed and behaviorally disordered children, adolescents, and their families. The range of services include psychological, developmental, and psychiatric assessments; outpatient programming such as family and child counseling, parent education, and supportive interactions; in-home therapy, skill building, homemaker services, and advocacy; medical or psychiatric assistance; crisis intervention; day treatment; referral and linking to community based resources; and residential care treatment facilities. Services are provided through regional programs including the Northern Nevada Child and Adolescence Center, the Southern Nevada Child and Adolescence Center, Intensive Family Services, the Early Childhood Program, Community Based District Offices, and other DCFS site offices throughout the State. The goal of DCFS mental health services is to strengthen and empower parent-child-family relationships and to enhance each child's social and emotional functioning. The client is the child in the family ... and the child and the family. The Avatar system is designed to integrate and automate various business processes and provide a solution to compliance with HIPAA transaction and code set requirements. "Success in the state marketplace is indicative of not only the excellence and flexibility of the Avatar suite of products, but also the excellent performance of our implementation staff and its history of client satisfaction," said James Conway, CEO of Netsmart. About Netsmart Technologies, Inc. Netsmart Technologies, Inc. of Islip, N.Y., through Creative Socio-Medics, is an established, leading supplier of enterprise-wide software solutions for health and human services providers with over 580 clients, including 25 systems with state agencies. Creative's clients include health and human services organizations: public health agencies, mental health and substance abuse clinics, psychiatric hospitals, and managed care organizations. Avatar Practice Management and the Avatar Clinician Work Station, Creative's core products, are full-featured information systems that operate on a variety of operating systems, hardware platforms, and mobile devices and offer unlimited scalability. Statement on Behalf of Netsmart Technologies, Inc. Statements in this press release may be "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words such as "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "expect," "intend" and similar expressions, as they relate to the company or its management, identify forward-looking statements. These statements are based on current expectations, estimates and projections about the company's business based, in part, on assumptions made by management. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Therefore, actual outcomes and results may, and probably will, differ materially from what is expressed or forecasted in such forward-looking statements due to numerous factors, including those described above and those risks discussed from time to time in Netsmart's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In addition, such statements could be affected by risks and uncertainties related to product demand, market and customer acceptance, competition, pricing and development difficulties, as well as general industry and market conditions and growth rates, and general economic conditions. Any forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which they are made, and the company does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this release. Information on Netsmart's or Creative's website do not constitute a part of this release. DATASOURCE: Netsmart Technologies, Inc. CONTACT: Ron Marge of Netsmart Technologies, 1-800-421-7503, ext. 2026, ; or Stuart Fine of Carpe DM, Inc., +1-908-490-0075, , for Netsmart Technologies Web site: http://www.netsmartech.com/

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