Q: Can you provide a brief explanation of the Child Welfare-Services-California Automated Response and Engagement System (CWS-CARES) under development?
A: Child Welfare Services-California Automated Response and Engagement System (CWS-CARES) is the new system under development for the State of California to comply with Comprehensive Child Welfare Information System (CCWIS) requirements. CWS-CARES will be a modern, web-based computing infrastructure that is flexible, scalable, and based on industry enterprise architecture framework concepts. CWS-CARES will consolidate functionalities that are in various systems into a single system and include multiple interfaces with other applications, thus providing users with critical case information more efficiently.