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CARES SPOCs, Implementation Coordinators, OCM Coordinators, County Leadership, Tribe Leadership, Probation Leadership, and State Leadership:   Reminder: Register for the October Stakeholder Briefing Registration is still open for CWS-CARES Stakeholder Briefing #4 on October 22, 2025, from 10AM – 12 Noon! This live webinar will feature ...

All Pilot County RFA Implementation Coordinators and SPOCs: The CWS-CARES team has scheduled maintenance activity for the CWS-CARES production environment for Tuesday, October 14, 2025, 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, an...

Explore the ongoing evolution of CWS-CARES. This area hosts CWS-CARES product demonstrations that showcase key milestones from our iterative product development process. Each demo is a point in time snapshot, offering a firsthand look at the features and functionality taking shape within various CWS-CARES service areas. Product demonstrations ...

All SPOCs and Technical Contacts: The CWDS Infrastructure team will work with IBM / Kyndryl and AT&T to move some CWS servers at the Orange Data Center. This move is scheduled for Tuesday, October 14, 2025, beginning at 5:00 PM and concluding at 11:00 PM. Some CWS/CMS users may experience a slight delay in a transaction “if” they are c...

CARES SPOCs, Implementation Coordinators, OCM Coordinators, County Leadership, Tribe Leadership, Probation Leadership, and State Leadership:   CWS-CARES Progress and Engagement Summary: September 2025 The September Progress and Engagement Summary is now available. This monthly summary was specifically formulated as a direct response to yo...

CARES SPOCs, Implementation Coordinators, OCM Coordinators, County Leadership, Tribe Leadership, Probation Leadership, and State Leadership: CARES Explorer Newsletter – September 2025 We are pleased to present the September 2025 issue of the CARES Explorer, the long‑form newsletter published each quarter! For the best experience, please op...

This July, the CWS-CARES Sandbox Environment opened to the first cohort of 559 users across 30 organizations. The Sandbox gives users the opportunity to gain early, hands-on exposure to CWS-CARES and practice Child Welfare business processes and scenarios.   To prepare for their Sandbox journey, new Sandbox users attended an orientation sessio...

Data Cleansing Instructions Guidelines for County participation in data cleansing activities – there is a checklist at the end of this page. 1. Receive Communication To ensure that you receive emails regarding data quality and cleansing activities, ensure that when you create a profile on the portal you select the option to ...

Policy & Regulations 45 Code of Federal Regulations (CRF) All County Letter (ACL) No. 24-19 (March 15, 2024) All County Letter (ACL) No. 18-47 (May 3, 2018) Welfare and Institutions Code (WIC) 16501.9

All SPOCs and Data Quality Analysts: The latest versions of Data Quality Fuzzy Reports for Clients and Placement Homes are now available. The Client and Placement Home Fuzzy Reports assist with data cleanup by providing a greater number of potential duplication matches, using “fuzzy” matching criteria, than would be possible on the more restr...