CWDS Glossary
The CWDS Glossary includes a List of Acronyms and defined terms captured from various models, reports, and other artifacts pertaining to the Child Welfare System – California Automated Response and Engagement System (CWS-CARES) Project. The Glossary standardizes terms used across the various project disciplines; each term is defined with its meaning specific to the project domain.
The State may update the CWDS Glossary at any time. Any questions please contact CWDS Communications.
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Value Hypothesis
A guided conversation about the agency goals we hope to support with CARES system to help us to prioritize which features will deliver the most impact towards those goals. Value Hypothesis work brings state policy, county program and data stakeholders together to get alignment on goals.
Vendor & Contract Management (VCM)
Describes the processes organizations use to manage their suppliers, who are also known as vendors. Vendor management includes activities such as selecting vendors, negotiating contracts, controlling costs, reducing vendor-related risks and ensuring service delivery.
Victim
A child that has been alleged to or has suffered neglect, physical abuse, psychological or emotional abuse, sexual abuse, or exploitation.
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
A virtual private network, or VPN, is an encrypted connection over the Internet from a device to a network. The encrypted connection helps ensure that sensitive data is safely transmitted. It prevents unauthorized people from eavesdropping on the traffic and allows the user to conduct work remotely.
Voluntary Placement
An out-of-home placement of a child where the authority for placement is derived from a voluntary agreement for services with the parent, guardian or Indian Tribe.
Waterfall
A method of software development in which you plan all the requirements first. In contrast, Agile plans the requirements as you go.
Wave
A User group and their designated CWS-CARES implementation date. The CWS-CARES implementation consists of a Pilot Group and a Statewide Rollout Group. These groups are part of a Rollout schedule that outlines how and when the impacted organizations (counties and State*) Go-Live. Every county and State* organization is assigned to a Wave. The placement of organizations in waves will be determined by the State* and the Contractor*.
Web Services
Services that are made available from a business's web server for web users or other web-connected programs. Also known as application services, web services usually include some combination of programming and data but could include human resources as well.
Web Services Description Language (WSDL)
An XML format for describing network services as a set of endpoints operating on messages containing either document-oriented or procedure-oriented information. The operations and messages are described abstractly and then bound to a concrete network protocol and message format to define an endpoint.
Web Services Security
An extension to Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) to apply security to Web Services. It is a member of the Web Service specifications and was published by OASIS.