CWDS Glossary

An automated system utilized by CCLD staff to record facility licensing information. The system contains facility information and individual caregiver background check status and tracks payments for applications, annual billing, and civil penalty fees.

Staff that perform technical work to license and evaluate community care facilities; respond to complaints, incident reports, and inquiries; and conduct investigations.

The loss of confidentiality, integrity, or availability might: (i) cause a degradation in mission capability to an extent and duration that the organization is able to perform its primary functions, but the effectiveness of the functions is noticeably reduced; (ii) result in minor damage to organizational assets; (iii) result in minor financial loss; or (iv) result in minor harm to individuals.

The fourth and final CWDS Digital Service stage used to report point-in-time status of each Digital Service (e.g., Intake). The objective of this stage is to implement a release that encompasses the full scope of the Digital Services including feature enhancements and new features, as required. The outputs of this stage include, but are not limited to, the following: all organizations trained and implemented on the Digital Service, and the Digital Service satisfies prioritized functionality. ​

An inkless, electronic means of capturing fingerprints in a digitized format and submitting State of California and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) fingerprint-based background checks. CCLD uses Live Scan to fingerprint Department employees and facility personnel within applicant and licensed facilities. Users are external applicants, external facility employees, external foster/adoptive parents, CCLD staff, and CCLD vendors.

A conceptual view of the domain entities, the relationship between those entities, and the key attributes for each of the identified entities.

LEADER is the welfare eligibility determination consortium consisting of Los Angeles County, which represents approximately 35 percent of the welfare caseload in the State of California. LEADER is also the name of the system used by the LEADER consortium.