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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): The February 2026 Progress and Engagement Summary is Now Available CWS-CARES Data Dictionary Version 0.09 Now Available Updated CWS-...

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 3, 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 A...

EUST is a structured, time bound activity that is intended to allow users from various counties an opportunity to provide user experience feedback on CWS-CARES. The EUST period includes end-to-end testing of scenarios in CWSCARES. The CWS-CARES project has previously conducted two rounds of EUST and is currently in the process of facilitating...

​​​​​The CWS-CARES project is working in partnership with Counties to develop forms and reports as we approach Go-Live. Our current priority is to address County questions regarding project responsibilities for forms and reports development. A few of these questions are included below, although they do not represent an exhaustive list of questio...

In preparation for CWS-CARES Go-Live in October 2026, we are introducing a new key readiness activity: the Production Simulation (Prod Sim) environment. Pending federal approval, counties will gain access to Prod Sim in May 2026, which will allow users to practice and test system functionality in a digital environment mirroring CWS-CARES Version...

All Dedicated County SPOCs and Technical Contacts: As we wrap up the statewide Zscaler deployment, the CWDS Infrastructure Operations Team would like to provide a final update regarding the transition away from the Cisco AnyConnect Virtual Private Network (VPN) solution. Effective March 1, 2026, Cisco AnyConnect will be removed from all CW...

All SPOCs and Technical Contacts:  Over the past half-year, we have actively coordinated and worked with the various stakeholder organizations to perform the transition to a secure FedRAMP IAM (Okta) environment, which has been completed and operational in the CWS-CARES non-production environment. Now, we are ready to perform this transition ...

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...