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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, please see the attached updated CWS-CARES Meeting Calendar for November and December 2024 and January 2025. This calendar includes all meetings hosted by the CWS-CARES project, includin...

CWS SPOCs and existing APD Contacts: We are pleased to announce an update to the Child Welfare Digital Services (CWDS) Contacts page on the CWDS website. In an ongoing effort to provide better customer service related to Child Welfare Services/Case Management System (CWS/CMS) Advance Planning Documents (APD), a new Advance Planning Document Co...

  CARES SPOCs, Implementation Coordinators, County, Tribe, Probation, State Leadership, OCM Coordinators and specific CWDA Staff related to child welfare   We are pleased to present the fifth issue of the CARES Compass, the two-page executive summary with upcoming project communications and brief informational highlights.    In this issue, y...

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 Windows 10 Workstations for October 2024: MS Windows 10 22H2 Patches MS24-OCT: Cumulative Update for .NET Framework 3.5 and 4.8 for Windows 10 - KB5044020 (x64) Important MS24-OCT: Cumulative Up...

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 2...

All SPOCs: We are pleased to announce an update to the CWDS Planning Roadmap posted on the CWDS public website. The updated roadmap illustrates planned releases in the following systems: CARES-Live, CARES RFA and CWS/CMS. The updated planning roadmap includes CARES Version 1 (V1) milestone descriptions, critical training and implementation acti...

All SPOCs, Technical Contacts, and CAD Contacts: An issue has been discovered with the current version of Business Objects used with the CWS/CMS application. Issue Description: Whenever a numeric field, such as government entity code, is used as a condition in a data provider (query), the query will run correctly the first time. Whenever th...

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 1, 2024, beginning at 6:00 AM and concluding at 8:00 AM. During the maintenance window, the CWS-CARES Resource Family Approval (RFA) Application Submission, Review, and A...

All SPOCs and Technical Contacts: The CWS/CMS application will be in read-only mode for one hour during the time change from Daylight Saving Time to Standard Time on Sunday, November 3, 2024.  To prevent duplicate time stamps, users will not be able to save to the database starting at 1:00 AM, after the clocks have been moved back from 2:00 AM....

All Dedicated County SPOCs and Technical Contacts: October 22, 2024 UPDATE: The California Department of Technology (CDT) has reported that Cisco AnyConnect Virtual Private Network (VPN) is now accessible. CDT continues to investigate and work on this issue, but VPN access appears to be stable. Users should now be able to access VPN. CDT and th...