CWS-CARES Meeting Calendar - January 2025 to March 2025 - UPDATE

To: Child Welfare Directors, Child Welfare Director-Alternates, Tribal Leadership, Probation Leadership, and Core Constituents CC: All CARES SPOCs and Implementation Coordinators

Child Welfare Leadership and Core Constituents,

January 15, 2025 UPDATE:  Correction: The previous version of the calendar included an RFA Prototype Demonstration on 2/10/2025. This has been removed in the updated attachment.
_____________________________________________________________________________


As part of our ongoing effort to provide you greater insight into upcoming meetings for the CWS-CARES project, please see the attached updated CWS-CARES Meeting Calendar for January – March 2025. This calendar includes all meetings hosted by the CWS-CARES project, including Core Constituent demonstrations, implementation meetings, and key workgroups. 

This calendar includes the following Core Constituent sessions:
  • Prototype Demonstrations: Core constituents review prototypes, or pre-build designs of CWS-CARES, to represent system functionality, to provide early feedback on user experience, navigation, and screen actions before the designs go into development.  
  • Build Review Demonstrations: Core Constituents see some of the feedback they provided in the Prototype Demonstrations reflected in CWS-CARES and provide further feedback on the developed product. 
  • Extended User Scenario Testing (EUST) 2: Participants will test end-to-end real-world scenarios in CWS-CARES. A 1.5-hour EUST kickoff session is planned for the week of March 17-21, 2025, with the testing period scheduled from March 24 to April 18, 2025. 
Action Required
Please share this information with those at your organization you feel should be informed. Note: This calendar is point-in-time and subject to change. The CWS-CARES project plans to deliver a sustainable, more real-time calendar solution that will be accessible to all meeting participants and leadership in late Winter 2025.

If you have any questions, please contact CWDS Customer Relations.