CWDS Glossary
The CWDS Glossary includes a List of Acronyms and defined terms captured from various models, reports, and other artifacts pertaining to the Child Welfare System – California Automated Response and Engagement System (CWS-CARES) Project. The Glossary standardizes terms used across the various project disciplines; each term is defined with its meaning specific to the project domain.
The State may update the CWDS Glossary at any time. Any questions please contact CWDS Communications.
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Role Based Access Control (RBAC)
A policy-neutral access-control mechanism defined around roles and privileges.
Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
In computer systems security, an approach to restricting system access to authorized users.
Rollout
For purposes of CWS-CARES implementation, Rollout is the timeline when Sites will complete their implementation readiness activities and then Go-Live.
Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
A structured process designed to help people understand the causes of past problems for the purpose of preventing recurrence.
Runaway and Homeless Youth Shelter (RHYS)
A short-term shelter and services to runaway youth and homeless youth who voluntarily enter the facility. A youth cannot stay in a RHYS for more than 21 consecutive days from the date of admission. A RHYS serves youth 12 to 17 years of age, inclusive, or 18 and completing high school or its equivalent, who are in need of services and without a place of shelter (homeless youth), or who have run away from their home or place of legal residence without permission of a parent, legal guardian, or foster parent (runaway youth).
Safely Surrendered Baby (SSB)
The term Safely Surrendered Baby refers to the Safely Surrendered Baby Law (SSB) implemented on January 1, 2001, in response to the increasing number of abandoned baby deaths in California. The law is intended to spare the life of an infant by encouraging parents or persons with lawful custody to safely surrender an infant at a “safe surrender site” within 72 hours of the child’s birth rather than abandoning them in an unsafe location.
Safe Measures Service and Structured Decision Making
A database provided by the Children’s Research Center (CRC), a division of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD). This database provides information needed for Safe Measures Service and the Structured Decision Making application. In the current CWS/CMS, the Safe Measures data mart is loaded daily from the child welfare database. The purpose of the daily extract is to provide to CRC data they can use to generate the Structured Decision Making application that many social workers and other county staff use to provide services and care to children.
Safety
The determination as to whether there are present dangers and/or imminent threats of serious harm/maltreatment to a child or children.
Sandbox
An isolated testing environment that enables users to run programs or execute files without affecting the application, system, or platform on which they run. The stakeholders can use this environment to test the system and verify that it works as intended.
This term is no longer in use, please refer to Readiness Environment.
Screening
The process used by the child welfare agency to determine whether information received meets criteria for some type of intervention.