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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. _______________...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...