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We are pleased to announce that the new CWDS Meeting & Event Calendar will go live on Friday, March 28, 2025. This will be a near real-time calendar that includes the meeting/event name, date and time. The new calendar will not require users to log in.   New CWDS Public Calendar: Streamlined Access to All Meetings and Events CWS-CA...

All SPOCs, Implementation Coordinators, and OCM Coordinators: We are pleased to announce that the existing CWS-CARES Stakeholder Resources page has been updated to reflect publicly available resources regarding CWS-CARES. The intent of these changes to the CWDS website is to build awareness on CWS-CARES project updates and promote user eng...

All SPOCs and Training Contacts: March 24, 2024 UPDATE:  This is a reminder that the deadline to register for the R9.6 County Test Workshop (CTW) is tomorrow, Tuesday, March 25, 2025. __________________________________________________________________________________________ The Child Welfare Digital Services (CWDS) Office is requesting co...

All SPOCs and Technical Contacts: Effective March 27, 2025, CARES-Live 2.8.33 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, March 27, 2025, and conclude at 9:00 PM. During ...

Core Constituent Points of Contact: Core Constituents, You shared in quarterly Core Constituent surveys that new meeting and demonstration participants would benefit from onboarding resources to better understand CWS-CARES and how to engage effectively. In response, we are introducing the Core Constituent Orientation Guide, a one-page reso...

Child Welfare Directors, Child Welfare Director-Alternates, Tribal Leadership, Probation Leadership, Core Constituents, CARES SPOCs, and Implementation Coordinators: Child Welfare Leadership and CWS-CARES Meeting Participants, As part of our ongoing effort to provide you greater insight into upcoming meetings for the CWS-CARES project, ple...

All Pilot County RFA Implementation Coordinators and SPOCs: The CWS-CARES team has scheduled maintenance activity for the CWS-CARES production environment for Thursday, March 27, 2025, beginning at 5:00 PM and concluding at 6:00 PM. During the maintenance window, the CWS-CARES Resource Family Approval (RFA) Application Submission, Review, and A...

All SPOCs, Technical Contacts, and SBC Administrators: March 17, 2025 UPDATE: The California Department of Technology (CDT) has resolved the issue which prevented access to Server Based Computing (SBC). Counties are now reporting that they are successfully accessing SBC and are able to launch the CWS/CMS application. Please contact the IBM...

All SPOCs, Technical Contacts, and CAD Contacts: March 14, 2025 UPDATE: The Search indexing issue has been resolved. ________________________________________________________________________ The CWS/CMS CAD BusinessObjects (BO) server was unavailable last night, January 29, 2025. It was rebooted this morning at 10:10 AM, and the service wa...

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 18, 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, and Ap...