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All SPOCs, Technical Contacts, and SBC Administrators: The California Department of Technology (CDT) has scheduled maintenance on Saturday, April 26, 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 ou...

All Pilot County RFA Implementation Coordinators and SPOCs: The CWS-CARES team has scheduled maintenance activity for the CWS-CARES production environment for Tuesday, April 15, 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, and Ap...

Currently there are two Tribes with Title IV-E agreements with CDSS: the Karuk Tribe and Yurok Tribe. Title IV-E agreements allow for funds to pass from the State to the Tribe for the provision of comprehensive child welfare programming and services, depending on the Tribe’s agreement with CDSS. This may include foster care, transitional indepen...

Below you will find links to access the Resource Family Approval (RFA) and CARES-Live release notes for each release. The project continues to maintain the RFA and CARES-Live features currently in production (Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS), Facility Search, and Snapshot) until they can be fully replaced and incorporated into C...

In November of 2015, the CWS-CARES Project embraced an agile approach to software design and development rather than procuring a monolithic, one-time solution. As a condition of approval for the change in approach, the California Department of Technology required the Project to trace the development requirements which were originally publis...

Child Welfare Services/Case Management System (CWS/CMS) is a statewide tool that continues to support a Child Welfare System of services. Below you will find links to valuable CWS/CMS stakeholder resources. General Bulletins CWDS Meeting & Event Calendar County Logon CWS/CMS Guides CWS/CMS Releases Regional Use...

Child Welfare Digital Services (CWDS) is a collaboration of California State and local government agencies that support our shared stakeholders through technology to assure the safety, permanency and well-being of children at risk of abuse, neglect or exploitation. CWDS is responsible for maintaining and operating the existing Child Welfare...

External Systems Points of Contact, CARES SPOCs, County Leadership, CARES Implementation Coordinators, and OCM Coordinators:   April 1, 2025 UPDATE: As stated in the original communication sent out on March 4, 2025, the CWS-CARES Data Dictionary will be published on a quarterly basis. This update is to notify everyone that v0.03 of the CWS-CAR...

All SPOCs and Technical Contacts: April 1, 2025 UPDATE: The California Department of Technology (CDT) is reporting that the issue with the Virtual Private Network (VPN) has been resolved. Users should now be able to access VPN. ______________________________________________________________________________________ The California Department o...

Definitions The CWS-CARES Data Dictionary and Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERDs) are designed to assist counties and other data partners in understanding the structure, purpose, and use of data within CWS-CARES.   The Data Dictionary is a reference guide that explains the structure and meaning of data in CWS-CARES system, such as database f...