CWDS Glossary

A service component which may consist of training, services or other programs designed to assist current and former foster youth achieve self-sufficiency prior to and after leaving the foster care system. Youth and Non-Minor Dependents benefit from these services from ages 14th birthday up to the day before their 24th birthday. In California, each county has the flexibility to design services to meet a wide range of individual needs and circumstances for present and former foster youth, and to coordinate services with other Federal and State agencies engaged in similar activities.

A portal or website where internal or external users can access support information (e.g., FAQs, knowledge documents, user manuals, Training Guides, etc.) and perform self-help tasks (e.g., login and password reset, submit service desk request/ticket, etc.).

A California Department of Justice standard form for Mandated Reporters reporting child abuse.

The result of the available time divided by the scheduled time reflects the percentage of the scheduled time the system was available for use.

A person or company that specializes in bringing together component subsystems into a whole and ensuring that those subsystems function together, a practice known as system integration. They also solve problems of automation.

Unavailability or decrease in service quality resulting from unexpected behavior of a particular service, or an incident that impacts consumers and results in a service not being delivered at a level they reasonably expect.

The purpose of the SSP is to provide information regarding the security approach, controls, standards, and guidelines for CWS-CARES. This document will follow the National Institute of Standards (NIST) framework for creation of the plan. It will establish a minimum set of controls that are required in the CWS-CARES system, assigns responsibilities for the security of information assets; and provides a consolidated repository of information that incorporates Federal, State, Departmental, and County information security guidance. The controls discussed in this document are presented as standard operating procedures and guidelines used by CWS-CARES project management, system administrators, system developers, users, and all state/county/vendor personnel to comply with the various security policies and administration directives pertaining to the operation of the CWS-CARES application.

This tests the system as a whole. All the modules/components are integrated in order to verify if the system works as expected or not. System testing is done after integration testing.

The CWDS Oversight Committee charters the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) as an advisory body to the Oversight Committee (OSC). The primary purpose of TAC is to provide statewide user perspective on technical issues related to CWS/CMS and CWS-CARES identified at the state or county level. OSC further charters TAC as a communication channel between the Oversight Committee and the Regional User Groups, and is expected to add necessary statewide perspective and context to issues and processes stemming from both.

The Digital Service vendor team charged with the development and delivery of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that provide data access and other System* features in support of all CWDS Digital Services, but with a focus on supporting Case Management Digital Service development.