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CARES SPOCs, Implementation Coordinators, County Leadership, Tribe Leadership, Probation Leadership, and State Leadership: As noted in our recent update regarding Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA) Portal testing as part of CWS-CARES Extended User Scenario Testing (EUST) 3, we are shifting to a more focused testing approach utilizin...

All Pilot County RFA Implementation Coordinators and SPOCs: The CWS-CARES team has scheduled maintenance activity for the CWS-CARES production environment for Tuesday, March 31, 2026, beginning at 5:00 PM and concluding at 8:00 PM. During the maintenance window, the CWS-CARES Resource Family Approval (RFA) Application Submission, Review, and ...

Child Welfare Leadership, CARES SPOCs, CARES Implementation Coordinators, CARES OCM Coordinators CWS-CARES is pleased to announce that KPMG has been awarded the contract for Implementation Services for CWS-CARES Version 1 (CARES V1). We are moving rapidly with the immediate onboarding of KPMG to ensure a seamless integration into our current ...

All SPOCs and Technical Contacts: The CARES-Live team has scheduled maintenance for the CARES-Live application. The maintenance is scheduled for Thursday, March 26, 2026, from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM. During this scheduled maintenance the CARES-Live team will focus on application maintenance changes that are not visible to CARES-Live users. NOT...

All SPOCs, Technical Contacts, and CAD Contacts: A service on the CWS/CMS CAD BusinessObjects (BO) server did not start correctly last night, March 24, 2026. The service was restarted this morning; however, the maximum number of connections to the database exceeded the allowed limit. This has caused the failure of some reports to complete pro...

CARES SPOCs, Implementation Coordinators, OCM Coordinators, County Leadership, Tribe Leadership, Probation Leadership, and State Leadership: In this Weekly Digest: Deadline Extended: Complete the CWS-CARES Communication Effectiveness Survey #3 by March 27, 2026 Final Reminder: Register for Stakeholder Briefing #6 on March 25,...

All SPOCs, Technical Contacts, and SBC Administrators: The California Department of Technology (CDT) has scheduled maintenance on Saturday, March 28, 2026, beginning at 6:00 AM and concluding at 10:00 AM. During the maintenance window, CDT will apply Standard Monthly OS Security Patches to SBCS Infrastructure Servers. There is no anticipated ...

CARES SPOCs, Implementation Coordinators, OCM Coordinators, County Leadership, Tribe Leadership, Probation Leadership, and State Leadership: As we prepare for the CWS-CARES Version 1 (V1) launch in October 2026, we are sharing an important update regarding the collection and management of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Expression ...

ll SPOCs and Technical Contacts in Alpine County: The California Department of Technology (CDT) has scheduled maintenance on Friday, March 20, 2026, beginning at 2:00 AM and concluding at 8:00 AM. Users at the listed site will experience interruptions in connectivity to CWS/CMS and CARES-Live within the scheduled Verizon maintenance window. ...

ALL SPOCs, Technical Contacts and CAD Contacts: The California Department of Technology (CDT) has scheduled monthly Microsoft security patching. The patching begins on Friday, April 17, 2026, at 8:00 PM and concludes on Saturday, April 18, 2026, at 1:00 AM. The activity will cause interruptions to the Business Objects (BO) servers within the ...