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On February 25th, 2026, CWS-CARES shared a demonstration of Kinship Guardianship Assistance Payment (Kin-GAP) functionality with the assistance of California Statewide Automated Welfare System (CalSAWS). The demonstration showed the actions social workers can take to track data in CWS-CARES Case Management, Courts, and Placement sections, and ho...

From January 20 through April 17, 2026, the CWS-CARES Project conducted Extended User Scenario Testing (EUST 3), a key milestone on the path to CWS-CARES V1 Go-Live. Participants worked through real-world, end-to-end scenarios across the system, helping validate how CWS-CARES performs in practice.   EUST 3 engaged a broad group of organizatio...

The CWS-CARES Project announced partnership with a new vendor for implementation services on March 25, 2026. KPMG, the new vendor, began Organization Change Management (OCM), training, and implementation onboarding in early April and have resumed activities. The updated approach for implementation services is focused on continuity, preparing cou...

The CWS-CARES Production Simulation environment (Prod Sim) is a new readiness activity that will allow users to practice and test system functionality in a digital space mirroring CWS-CARES Version 1. This environment will be populated with real converted data from CWS/CMS, CARES-Live, and RFA Greenfield* to support validation and testing ahead ...

CARES SPOCs, Implementation Coordinators, OCM Coordinators, County Leadership, Tribe Leadership, Probation Leadership, and State Leadership: In this Weekly Digest: Reminder: Register for CWS-CARES Stakeholder Briefing #7 Follow Our Progress: The CWS-CARES High Level Roadmap is Now Updated CARES Explorer April 2026 Issue Now Availabl...

All SPOCs and Technical Contacts: An interim CWS/CMS release has been scheduled to allow counties an opportunity to receive new content prior to the next release. Release 9.6.1 (R9.6.1) is an optional release and will include the following content: SCR 9049 – Forms Release Update #1 for 2026 The forms included in this release are: ...

All CARES-Live Meeting Attendees:  The CWDS Project Team previously concluded CARES‑Live releases to support the transition to CWS‑CARES; this decision was communicated to the organizations on June 30, 2025. In alignment with that decision—and following the successful deployment of the final CARES‑Live release—we proposed during the April 15,...

All SPOCs and Technical Contacts: The CARES-Live team has scheduled monthly Infrastructure maintenance for Thursday, April 23, 2026, from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM. During this scheduled maintenance, the CARES-Live team will deploy infrastructure updates, remove CANS duplicate records and security patches that are not visible to users of CARES-Live....

ALL SPOCs, Technical Contacts and CAD Contacts: April 22, 2026 UPDATE: The original communication included an error. The patching begins on Friday, May 15, 2026, at 6:00 PM instead of 8:00 PM. ______________________________________________________________________ The California Department of Technology (CDT) has scheduled monthly Micros...

All SPOCs, Technical Contacts, and SBC Administrators: The California Department of Technology (CDT) has scheduled an upgrade window for Saturday, May 2, 2026, beginning at 6:00 AM and concluding at 10:00 AM. During the upgrade window, SBC users may experience a brief service interruption while CDT is bringing the new Windows 2022 application...