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All SPOCs and Technical Contacts: The CARES-Live team has scheduled maintenance for the CARES-Live application. The maintenance is scheduled for Thursday, November 20, 2025, 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: Now Available: The November 2025 CARES Compass – Volume 2, Issue 6 CWS-CARES Stakeholder Briefing #4: Materials Posted _______ Now Available: The November 2025 CARE...

All Pilot County RFA Implementation Coordinators and SPOCs: November 12, 2025 UPDATE: Correction. This maintenance is scheduled for Friday, November 14, 2025; not on Wednesday. ___________________________________________________ The CWS-CARES team has scheduled maintenance activity for the CWS-CARES production environment for Wednesday ...

CARES SPOCs, Implementation Coordinators, OCM Coordinators, County Leadership, Tribe Leadership, Probation Leadership, and State Leadership: In this Weekly Digest: New CWS-CARES Data Dictionary V0.07 and Office Hours Reminder   Implementation Contacts Now Available on the CWDS Website Demonstrations Coming Soon to the CWDS Website ...

All CARES-Live and CARES-RFA County Administrators: The CWDS CSM Portal hosted by ServiceNow will be migrating to a secure FedRAMP-compliant data center. As a result of this migration, the CWDS CSM Portal URL will change. This migration will specifically affect the CARES-Live and CARES-RFA administrators who currently use the portal. After th...

All Pilot County RFA Implementation Coordinators and SPOCs: The CWS-CARES team has scheduled maintenance activity for the CWS-CARES production environment for Wednesday, November 12, 2025, beginning at 5:00 PM and concluding at 9:00 PM. During the maintenance window, the CWS-CARES Resource Family Approval (RFA) Application Submission, Review,...

CARES SPOCs, Implementation Coordinators, OCM Coordinators, County Leadership, Tribe Leadership, Probation Leadership, and State Leadership: CWDS Website Update: The FCED Hub  We are excited to introduce the FCED Hub, a new page on the CWDS website for the latest information and resources on Foster Care Eligibility and Determination (FCED)...

All SPOCs and Technical Contacts: October 30, 2025 UPDATE: The California Department of Technology (CDT) deployed their fix yesterday. Along with the patch applied yesterday by the CWDS Office, the www.ca.gov website latency issue has been resolved. Users should not experience any issue or delays when accessing the CWDS website (https://cwds....

This communication is a follow-up to the October 17, 2025, correspondence on the status of the CWS-CARES Project's Advance Planning Document Update (APDU), specific implementation activities, and the resulting impacts of the ongoing federal shutdown.  The federal shutdown has impacted the submission and subsequent approval of the CWS-CARES AP...

All SPOCs and Technical Contacts: The California Department of Technology (CDT) is experiencing an issue with their shared statewide template. This issue is causing a latency issue with the www.ca.gov websites, including the CWDS website, https://cwds.ca.gov. When attempting to access the website, users will experience delays, or find the sit...