CWDS Glossary

The term used for a system in which a minor has been placed into a ward, group home, or private home of a state-certified caregiver referred to as a "foster parent."

California’s solution to support the Title IV-E eligibility process is known as the Foster Care Eligibility Determination (FCED) module. This module includes both a data preparation service and a Business Rules Engine (BRE). The FCED module will be developed and maintained in the California Statewide Automated Welfare System (CalSAWS), which is currently under development with an anticipated deployment of December 2023. There will be a robust interface of data between the Child Welfare Services-California Automated Response and Engagement System (CWS-CARES) and CalSAWS.

A child placed in an out of home placement or in independent housing under the care, custody and control of a child welfare or probation agency.

Agencies organized and operated on a non-profit basis that engage in recruiting, certifying, training, and supporting foster parents and finding temporary or permanent placements for children who may require more intensive care.

Any additional office set up by a Foster Family Agency to supplement the services provided by the administrative office of the agency.

Any residential facility providing 24-hour care for six or fewer foster children in the residence of the foster parent(s). The placement may be by a public or private child placement agency, court order, or voluntary placement by a parent, parents, or guardian.

The point where all legal parental rights to a child have been addressed for each parent that has legal standing. Termination of parental rights may occur through court action or voluntary relinquishment.

Testing that provides an opportunity to assess all aspects of a data conversion effort including data readiness (e.g., success of the data cleanup activities, completeness and interrelationships of data) and data transformation (e.g., how successfully data will convert into and interrelate within target data structures). The FLC tests will be conducted for each individual location or organization a few months prior to their scheduled implementation event.  The FLC is a consolidation of all of the location-specific data cleanup and conversion components (e.g., extract, transform, and load) after they have been developed and individually tested.