To: Child Welfare Directors, Child Welfare Director-Alternates, Tribal Leadership, Probation Leadership, Specific CWDA Staff, and Core Constituents CC: All CARES SPOCs and Implementation Coordinators:
Child Welfare Leadership and Core Constituents,
As part of our ongoing effort to provide you greater insight into upcoming meetings for the CWS-CARES project, please see the updated CWS-CARES Meeting Calendar for October, November, and December 2024. This calendar includes all CWS-CARES readiness meetings, including Core Constituent demonstrations, implementation meetings, and key workgroups.
The calendar will be posted on the CWDS webpage soon and will replace the CWS-CARES Meeting Matrix. The CWS-CARES project will send a communication to announce this change.
The calendar includes two types of Core Constituent demonstrations:
Prototype Demonstrations (September – October)
These sessions showcase system updates that enhance user experience and navigation, providing a more consistent look and feel across CWS-CARES. Attendees have reported that the new interface is cleaner, more organized, and easier to navigate than the version shown during EUST 1.
Build Review Demonstrations (will be scheduled for November – December)
Build Reviews are a follow up to the Core Constituent Demonstrations of CARES prototypes that occurred in September and October. Participants may see feedback they provided during the prototype demonstrations incorporated into this Build Review. However, the CARES Product Team is still prioritizing some of the feedback and suggestions from the previous sessions.
Following this message, designated points of contact for Core Constituent counties and organizations will receive invitations to attend Build Review Demonstration scheduled for November and December 2024. Recipients should forward these invitations to their organization’s relevant core constituents and subject matter experts.
In addition to these invitations, the CWS-CARES project will be reaching out in the coming weeks to Core Constituents to begin recruitment for EUST 2, which is scheduled for January 2025. Once participating users have been identified, the project team will be working to ensure that each user has the appropriate provision settings to access all testing materials and our staging environment.
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 continues to a develop a long-term, live calendar solution that will be accessible to all meeting participants and leadership. We will notify you when this new calendar solution is ready.
If you have any questions, please contact CWS_CustRel@osi.ca.gov.
CWS-CARES Meeting Calendar – October to December 2024
If unable to find a specific Bulletin, please contact Communications.