On June 8, 2018 CWDS released Snapshot 1.2, Facility Search 1.0 and Cognito 1.0 to 22 Core County social workers from across California. This is the second release of CWS-CARES functionality since early-May, and another important step towards developing the new system to replace the CWS/CMS child welfare system.
Snapshot gives staff the ability to search for people across CWS/CMS from a single field, see each person’s current contact information and demographics, and view an at-a-glance summary of their CWS history. Snapshot 1.2 includes enhancements, fixes and new features to existing Snapshot 1.1 functionality. Some of these include: referral and case numbering, relationship type next to parent’s name, and single digit searches for date of birth.
Facility and Home Profile Search is a search tool with transformational potential. What makes it most remarkable is that it searches three essential production systems for critical information that social workers and licensing workers need daily to do their jobs. By surfacing and connecting data that has historically not been matched in this way, Facility and Home Profile Search not only saves time, but reveals in a single glance connections that currently require multiple searches or cross-agency collaboration to find (including children in placement, number of approved beds, assigned worker and contact information). It has the potential to change research intensive processes for both County and State users from lengthy efforts to a several second transaction.
Cognito is a new identity management system CWS-CARES is introducing. Cognito 1.0 will allow for the ability to login to CWS-CARES securely and access applications and view information in CWS-CARES.
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