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The Future of SafeMeasures® and Structured Decision Making® (SDM) Assessments with CWS-CARES
Specific CWDA Staff Related to Child Welfare, County Directors and Alternates, Organization Leadership, CARES Implementation Coordinators, and CARES SPOCs, ELT, PMO, State Communications, Strategic Communications, Implementation Management, Implementation Leads, and Evident Change: There have been many questions regarding the future of SafeMe...
CWS/CMS: Business Objects Issue and Workaround – FINAL UPDATE
All SPOCs, Technical Contacts, and CAD Contacts: November 20, 2024 FINAL UPDATE: The installation of the Business Objects patch upgrade has completed. Business Objects is now accessible; however, users may experience degraded performance while the Business Objects server catches up on the scheduled jobs from this morning. The CWDS Infrastruct...
CARES-Live Meeting Role Added to the CWDS Website - REMINDER
All SPOCs: November 20, 2024 UPDATE: Resending this reminder to include the CARES-Live Profile – Create Account document that was missing with the previous reminder communication sent on November 19, 2024. _________________________________________________________________________ As discussed at the last CARES-Live Meeting in September, we wil...
CWS/CMS: Business Objects Issue and Workaround - REMINDER
All SPOCs, Technical Contacts, and CAD Contacts: November 20, 2024 UPDATE: This is a reminder that the Business Objects production environment is not available this morning, to install a patch update. A follow-up communication will be sent out once the environment has become available, estimated to occur at around 12:00 Noon. _______________...
CARES-Live Meeting Role Added to the CWDS Website - REMINDER
All SPOCs: As discussed at the last CARES-Live Meeting in September, we will now be using a newly added ‘Role’ on the CWDS website (cwds.ca.gov) as our foundation for the CARES-Live Quarterly Meeting attendees list.  This new ‘Role’ allows a user to self-select it to be added to the new CARES-Live Quarterly Meeting series, beginning in January ...
CWS-CARES Scheduled Maintenance
All Pilot County RFA Implementation Coordinators and SPOCs: The CWS-CARES team has scheduled maintenance activity for the CWS-CARES production environment for Friday, November 22, 2024 , 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...
CARES-Live 2.8.31 Production Release
All SPOCs and Technical Contacts: Effective November 21, 2024, CARES-Live 2.8.31 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, November 21, 2024, and conclude at 11:00 PM. Du...
CDT Service Desk Bulletin – SAFE Cloud Service Scheduled Maintenance
ALL SPOCs, Technical Contacts and CAD Contacts: The California Department of Technology (CDT) has scheduled maintenance of the SAFE Cloud service. The maintenance begins on Saturday, November 23, 2024, at 8:00 PM and concludes on Sunday, November 24, 2024, at 2:00 AM. The activity will cause interruptions in the SAFE Cloud service. Some Busines...
CWS/CMS: Business Objects Issue and Workaround - UPDATE
All SPOCs, Technical Contacts, and CAD Contacts: UPDATE: We are applying a patch to address this Business Objects issue, which will be implemented in both the Training and Production Environments. These environments will be unavailable during the following patch periods: Training Environment  - November 19th, 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM Producti...
Release 9.5 and Interim Release 9.5.0 Informational (30-day) Bulletin
The mandatory VB6 version of Release 9.5 will be implemented on 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 following ...