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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, As part of our ongoing effort to provide you greater insight into upcoming meetings for the CWS-CARES project, pl...

All Pilot County RFA Implementation Coordinators and SPOCs: The CWS-CARES team has scheduled maintenance activity for the CWS-CARES production environment for Wednesday, December 11, 2024, beginning at 5:00 PM and concluding at 7:00 PM. During the maintenance window, the CWS-CARES Resource Family Approval (RFA) Application Submission, Review, a...

CWS-CARES SPOCs Implementation Coordinators, OCM Coordinators and Core Constituent Points of Contact: We have created two new resources to help you understand the CWS-CARES user feedback process and effectively communicate within your organization about CWS-CARES.   Attached, you will find:  Core Constituent Infographic: A guide to understan...

All SPOCs and Technical Contacts: In support of the CWS/CMS Release 9.5 deployment scheduled for Saturday, December 14, 2024, 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 outag...

The mandatory VB6 version of Release 9.5 will be implemented on Saturday, Saturday, December 14, 2024. Coexistent county CWSCMS.MSI file availability: The CWSCMS.MSI file will be available by Friday, December 6, 2024, for technical staff to begin testing the installation of the release.  The code will be located on the CWSDFSr share in the...

All SPOCs and Technical Contacts: EFFECTIVE December 16, 2024, CWS-CARES RELEASE 0.15 PRODUCTION RELEASE IS PLANNED TO MOVE INTO PRODUCTION The CWS-CARES team has scheduled release activity that will interrupt connectivity to the CWS-CARES Resource Family Approval (RFA) Application Submission, Review, and Approval Process for pilot countie...

All Co-Existent County SPOCs and Technical Contacts: As requested, here is the list of patches that IBM tested and applied to the Dedicated County Workstations for November 2024: MS Windows 10 22H2 Patches MS24-NOV: Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 22H2 - Windows 10 Version 22H2 - KB5046613 (x64) Important  MS Windows 2016 (LTSB...

What is Impacted: CWS/CMS Application On Friday, December 6, 2024, from 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM, the CDE Interface will run to update Education Provider information for public schools, private schools, and school districts in the CWS/CMS application. This update applies to CDE school information only. School information manually created by a CWS/CM...

All SPOCs, Technical Contacts, and CAD Contacts: November 21, 2024 UPDATE: After working with the Business Objects vendor, IBM and the CWDS Infrastructure team are reporting that Business Objects is now up and operational, with a few limited issues / differences that remain to be resolved. Please Note: The login screens will look a bit dif...

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