A: The Project is considering approaches to assist portal users along with communications to broadly share the availability of such functionality statewide. No formal decisions have been made on these issues, more information to come in future communications.

A: Training materials will be accessible to all Production Simulation users. We're currently finalizing the approach to ensure everyone has the most up-to-date resources, and additional details will be shared as soon as they're ready.

A: Yes. Production Simulation will take place in lieu of EUST 4. Instead of a six-week testing period during EUST 4, organizations will have five months to test in the Production Simulation environment.

A: No, Production Simulation is a practice environment to help users prepare for CWS-CARES. Once Go-Live occurs, this environment will no longer be available. There will be a training environment to support training on an ongoing basis and that training environment will have interface connectivity, using mock data.

A: Yes, while the video demonstration shows the user selecting “Law Enforcement Agency” for the Organization Type, this is essentially demonstrating how a user would add a new office.

A: Feedback is tracked and prioritized by the Product Team. There may be some system limitations, and enhancements may be added after V1 Go-Live.

A: Implementation Leads can be added to a county's Microsoft Teams channel and SharePoint if the county prefers. However, ILs cannot share access to the State SharePoint, share documents from the State SharePoint, and will need to reconcile documentation as needed.

A: The CWS-CARES Forms Tracker, located in the CWS-CARES Forms Teams Channel, is the repository for the list of state forms that have been identified as potential candidates for CARES V1 development. The Project plans to share the Tracker with counties at an upcoming Forms Workgroup meeting.

A: There are no plans for CARES V1 to develop a training app like Scenario Manager. The scenarios for CWS-CARES training are in CWS-CARES along with the material and there will be walk through prompts to guide the learner. The material for Adoptions will be based on the functionality developed by the development team and released in to the CARES V1 Training Environment. This material once developed will be reviewed by the State Review team and the Training Advisory Workgroup.

A: There are two portals for CARES V1: the Resource Family Approval (RFA) Portal and the Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA) Portal (Service Provider/Community-Based Organization Portal).