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Announcing the CWS-CARES Pilot Counties!
Prior to CARES V1 Go-Live in October 2026, the CWS-CARES project will pilot the new system with a small number of counties (including Child Welfare and Probation) with the goal of gathering lessons learned for supporting all Organizations during statewide rollout. In April 2025, the CWS-CARES project invited counties to volunteer to volunteer for the Pilot Program, resulting in twelve responses. In May, the CWS-CARES project applied approved qualitative and quantitative evaluation criteria to score top County candidates for Pilot participation.
The CWS-CARES project in partnership with County Welfare Directors Association of California (CWDA), is pleased to announce the counties that were selected to participate in Pilot. Congratulations to Butte, Fresno, San Diego, San Mateo, and Tuolumne Counties! Counties were selected based on the criteria and process defined as part of the approved CWS-CARES V1 Pilot Plan.
As Pilot participants, these counties will help inform the development of interim business processes, exercise and sign-off on business functions in CWS-CARES and provide feedback throughout the Pilot period. The project has also selected counties to serve as Pilot alternates, which will be prepared to join the Pilot in the case that one or more of the selected counties is unable to do so. The CWS-CARES Pilot will launch in August of 2026 – thank you to all counties who volunteered to participate!
Originally Published in the CWS-CARES Explorer.
The CWS-CARES project in partnership with County Welfare Directors Association of California (CWDA), is pleased to announce the counties that were selected to participate in Pilot. Congratulations to Butte, Fresno, San Diego, San Mateo, and Tuolumne Counties! Counties were selected based on the criteria and process defined as part of the approved CWS-CARES V1 Pilot Plan.
As Pilot participants, these counties will help inform the development of interim business processes, exercise and sign-off on business functions in CWS-CARES and provide feedback throughout the Pilot period. The project has also selected counties to serve as Pilot alternates, which will be prepared to join the Pilot in the case that one or more of the selected counties is unable to do so. The CWS-CARES Pilot will launch in August of 2026 – thank you to all counties who volunteered to participate!
Originally Published in the CWS-CARES Explorer.