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The CWS-CARES project team is partnering with Evident Change to build the Structured Decision Making (SDM) Interface. Today, workers complete the following assessments using Evident Change’s Web SDM: Hotline Assessments at Intake Both Safety and Risk Assessments (in home, substitute, and congregate care provider) during Investigations Re...

County Consultants are subject matter experts (SMEs) representing the interests of counties. There are currently 24 County Consultants representing 14 counties actively participating as a SME in policy, program requirements, outcome measures, and county user needs and preferences. They serve across more than a dozen project teams, such as Intake...

As CWS-CARES moves towards Go-Live, we continue to receive inquiries from users like you from across the State. We welcome your questions because they give us an opportunity to better track which questions are being asked frequently so that we can proactively draft communications and ensure the response is disseminated widely. ​ If you have a...

The CWS-CARES project team has been working hard to enhance document generation and management in an effort called Content Management. ​ The three parts of Content Management for CARES V1 include: Document Generation (i.e., create documents) by Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), Document Management (i.e., access, collaborate and route documents)...

CWS-CARES is grouped into Service Areas. A service area is a type of service offered by CWS-CARES related to child welfare program and practices. Intake is the initial entry point into Child Welfare Services and includes processes to:​ Screen: capture Hotline requests, gather initial incident, person, and allegation information, and sup...

To ease the transition from CWS/CMS to CARES, the Implementation Team continues to partner with Organizational Change Management Coordinators and Organizational Change Management Advisory Workgroup Representatives from the counties.​ Organizational Change Management (OCM) Coordinators​ Each county has a designated Organizational Change Manag...

The CARES Implementation Team is a group within the CARES project team focused on helping Counties, CDSS, Probation, and Tribes with Title IV-E agreements prepare for CARES V1 Go-Live in October 2026. The team is comprised of Implementation Leads (ILs) who are assigned to each of these organizations to serve as single point of contact for all CA...

All SPOCs: Effective Monday, December 23, 2024, the CWDS Office has decided to relocate the following areas/pages from the public-facing CWDS website and move them to the County Logon area (https://cwds.ca.gov/): County Info | State Recognized County Administrator List County Info | Regional Chair page County Info | 24 x 7 Site List ...

To: CARES SPOCs and Implementation Coordinators  CC: County, Tribe, Probation, and State Leadership, OCM Coordinators We are pleased to share the CARES Explorer - December 2024 issue, the newsletter for staying up to date on the CWS-CARES project.  This is sent directly to our key stakeholders for project communications: County, Tribe, Pr...

All SPOCs, Technical Contacts, and SBC Administrators: The California Department of Technology (CDT) has scheduled maintenance on Saturday, December 28, 2024, 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...