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All SPOCs and Technical Contacts: Effective January 30, 2025, CARES-Live 2.8.32 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, January 30, 2025, and conclude at 9:00 PM. Durin...

All SPOCs, Technical Contacts and CTW Registered Testers: To accommodate the CARES Pilot Support activities, the CWDS Executive Leadership Team has decided to postpone the CWS/CMS Release 9.6 by three months, originally scheduled for Saturday, May 17, 2025. We apologize for any inconvenience this postponement may cause. The new CWS/CMS Relea...

All SPOCs, Technical Contacts, and SBC Administrators: The California Department of Technology (CDT) has scheduled maintenance on Saturday, January 25, 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 ...

All Pilot County RFA Implementation Coordinators and SPOCs: The CWS-CARES team has scheduled maintenance activity for the CWS-CARES production environment for Friday, January 17, 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 Core Constituent Survey Participants: Thank you for participating in our third quarterly Core Constituent Survey and sharing your valuable insight on the CWS-CARES Core Constituent meetings. For your awareness, we’ve attached a 1-page summary of the survey results, highlighting some of the feedback we received from participants. You m...

To: Child Welfare Directors, Child Welfare Director-Alternates, Tribal Leadership, Probation Leadership, and Core Constituents CC: All CARES SPOCs and Implementation Coordinators Child Welfare Leadership and Core Constituents, January 15, 2025 UPDATE:  Correction: The previous version of the calendar included an RFA Prototype Demonstration...

We are pleased to present the third issue of the CARES Compass, the two-page executive summary with upcoming project communications and brief informational highlights:   Stakeholder Briefing #2: This is a reminder of the next CWS-CARES Stakeholder Briefing session on Wednesday, January 29, 2025 – 9AM to 12PM. This session will provide you wi...

To: Child Welfare and Probation CARES SPOCs and Child Welfare Implementation Coordinators CC: County, Tribe, Probation, and State Leadership, and OCM Coordinators We hope you found our first Stakeholder Briefing Session in June 2024 informative and useful. We’re excited to announce our Second CWS-CARES Stakeholder Briefing Session to unveil ...

The California Office of Technology and Solutions Integration (OTSI) is responsible for the successful delivery of our large, complex IT systems statewide. As such, OTSI is the technology sponsor of CWS-CARES, and provides ongoing leadership and direction to support the successful delivery of CARES. ​  ​As the technology sponsor, OTSI partici...

The CWS-CARES Organizational Change Management (OCM) Team disseminated an Engagement Survey to the 58 county child-welfare agency implementation teams (Implementation, OCM, and Training Coordinators and their backups) and representatives from the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) divisions involved in the project: the Child Care Li...