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Home CWDS Calendar CWDS Meeting & Event Calendar The CWDS Meeting & Event Calendar captures all recurring CWS-CARES, CARES RFA, CARES-Live, and CWS/CMS meetings and events with counties, Probation, Tribes with Title IV-E agreements with CDSS, and State and Federal partners. Additionally, for a centralized resourc...

All SPOCs and Technical Contacts: The CARES-Live team has scheduled maintenance for the CARES-Live application. The maintenance is scheduled for Thursday, February 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. ...

CARES SPOCs, Implementation Coordinators, OCM Coordinators, County Leadership, Tribe Leadership, Probation Leadership, and State Leadership: In this Weekly Digest (click the link for more information): Register for Stakeholder Briefing #6: Now Scheduled for March 25, 2026, from 10:00 AM – 12:00 Noon CARES Explorer Volume 3, Issue 1 No...

All Pilot County RFA Implementation Coordinators and SPOCs: The CWS-CARES team has scheduled maintenance activity for the CWS-CARES production environment for Thursday, February 26, 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, ...

All SPOCs, Technical Contacts, and CAD Contacts: February 19, 2026 UPDATE: This is a reminder that the CWDS Infrastructure team and the California Department of Technology (CDT) have scheduled maintenance for the CAD/Business Objects (BO) servers. The production environment’s maintenance window is on Tuesday, February 24, 2026, beginning at 1...

The CWS-CARES Implementation OCM Team is proud to present the CWS-CARES Video Series. The videos showcase the CWS-CARES product and prepare you for the coming changes.   ​ Video 1 - "Why CARES? A Case for Change" The first video, Why CARES? A Case for Change explains why the CARES modernization is important to child welfare and describes t...

ALL SPOCs, Technical Contacts and CAD Contacts: The California Department of Technology (CDT) has scheduled maintenance of the SAFE Cloud service. The maintenance begins on Saturday, February 21, 2026, at 8:00 PM and concludes on Sunday, February 22, 2026, at 2:00 AM. The activity will cause interruptions in the SAFE Cloud service. Some Busin...

All Pilot County RFA Implementation Coordinators and SPOCs: The CWS-CARES team has scheduled maintenance activity for the CWS-CARES production environment for Tuesday, February 17, 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, a...

All SPOCs, Technical Contacts, and SBC Administrators: The California Department of Technology (CDT) has scheduled maintenance on Saturday, February 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 anticipat...

County leadership, CARES SPOCs, CARES Implementation Coordinators, and Forms Workgroup Members: Hello County Partners,  As we transition from CWS/CMS to CWS-CARES, we are providing an update on how court reports are being developed. Our goal is to maintain the flexibility you currently have while streamlining the court report template deve...