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All SPOCs: August 13, 2025 Update: The AD 512 NMD: Psychosocial and Medical History of Non-Minor Dependent (version 12/24) statewide template has been successfully uploaded to the CWS/CMS application. This form is available for use and can be found under the CDSS radio button when generating a document. Through testing of the new form, the...

CARES SPOCs, Implementation Coordinators, OCM Coordinators, County Leadership, Tribe Leadership, Probation Leadership, and State Leadership: The CWS-CARES Pop-Up Shop is opening in early September! This limited-time online store is open from Monday, September 8, 2025, to Friday, September 26, 2025. The shop offers a unique selection of CWS...

All Dedicated County SPOCs and Technical Contacts: The California Department of Technology (CDT) is upgrading the Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE). The upgrade window occurs on Sunday, August 17, 2025, beginning at 6:00 AM and concluding at 11:00 AM. Users who use a Cisco Virtual Private Network (VPN) client will be unable to authenticate f...

All SPOCs and Technical Contacts: In support of the CWS/CMS Release 9.6 deployment scheduled for Saturday, August 16, 2025, from 5:00 AM to 1:00 PM, the CARES-Live application will also not be available during this CWS/CMS scheduled deployment.   Action Required If users experience any issues with CARES-Live outside of this scheduled outage...

All SPOCs, Technical Contacts, and SBC Administrators: The California Department of Technology (CDT) has scheduled maintenance on Saturday, August 30, 2025, 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 anticipated o...

Release 9.6 will be implemented on Saturday, August 16, 2025 The application outage begins on Saturday, August 16, 2025, at 5:00 AM and will most likely complete around 11:00 AM. Users will not be able to access the CWS/CMS application during this period. All application updates will be applied during this outage and should be available once th...

We're pleased to share some key takeaways and progress from our recent EUST 2 efforts involving the CalSAWS and CWS-CARES interface, called Foster Care Eligibility Determination (FCED). ​ It's encouraging to report that many testers successfully replicated the core functionality of the interface, establishing case links and exchanging data an...

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 ...