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All Pilot County RFA Implementation Coordinators and SPOCs: The CWS-CARES team has scheduled maintenance activity for the CWS-CARES production environment for Monday, August 11 2025, beginning at 5:00 PM and concluding at 8:30 PM. During the maintenance window, the CWS-CARES Resource Family Approval (RFA) Application Submission, Review, and App...

The mandatory VB6 version of Release 9.6 will be implemented on Saturday, Saturday, August 16, 2025. Coexistent county CWSCMS.MSI file availability: The CWSCMS.MSI file will be available by Friday, August 8, 2025, for technical staff to begin testing the installation of the release. The code will be located on the CWSDFSr share in the foll...

CARES SPOCs, Implementation Coordinators, OCM Coordinators, County Leadership, Tribe Leadership, Probation Leadership, and State Leadership: We are pleased to share a new resource that will help you understand the various CWS-CARES application environments that are currently available to users.   In order to build, test, and safely launch ...

All SPOCs and Technical Contacts: Effective July 31, 2025, CARES-Live 2.8.34 Release is Scheduled to Move into Production The CARES-Live team has scheduled release activity that will interrupt connectivity to the CARES-Live application. The release activity will begin at 6:00 PM on Thursday, July 31, 2025, and conclude at 9:00 PM. During t...

All Pilot County RFA Implementation Coordinators and SPOCs: The CWS-CARES team has scheduled maintenance activity for the CWS-CARES production environment for Friday, August 1, 2025, beginning at 6:00 AM and concluding at 8:00 AM. During the maintenance window, the CWS-CARES Resource Family Approval (RFA) Application Submission, Review, and App...

All SPOCs and Technical Contacts: This communication is a notification that a bulletin has been posted to the CWDS website. As a reminder, ‘Bulletins’ are located beneath the ‘Follow Our Progress’ header on the CWDS website’s home page. The bulletin provides a reminder and direction prior to Release 9.6 on Saturday, August 16, 2025.   Action ...

The mandatory Release 9.6 will be implemented on Saturday, August 16, 2025. Coexistent county CWSCMS.MSI file availability: The CWSCMS.MSI file will be available by Friday, August 8, 2025, for technical staff to begin testing the installation of the release.  The code will be located on the CWSDFSr share in the following location:  \CO...

All SPOCs and Technical Contacts: The CWDS Office will be making some backend updates to the cwds.ca.gov website, causing a short outage for the website. The maintenance window is scheduled for Monday, August 4, 2025, beginning at 8:00 PM and concluding at 9:00 PM. The CWDS website will be unavailable for approximately 15 minutes within the mai...

Child Welfare and Probation CARES SPOCs, Child Welfare Implementation Coordinators, County, Tribe, Probation, and State Leadership, and OCM Coordinators: Thank you for taking the time to attend the CWS-CARES Stakeholder Briefing #3 held on Wednesday, June 25, 2025. We were thrilled to have over 482 participants join live, representing an impres...

All SPOCs: July 17, 2025 Update: The CWDS Office is having technical difficulties with adding the AD 512 NMD form to the CWS/CMS application. Currently, the existing version of the form has been deactivated and is inaccessible for all counties. Another notice will be sent out as soon as the issue has been resolved and the form is accessible i...