CWDS Glossary

A residential facility that provides mental health treatment services to children in a group setting which has the capacity to provide secure containment. The facility's program components shall be subject to program standards developed and enforced by the State Department of Mental Health, pursuant to Section 4094 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.

One or more allegations made that a resource family, licensed facility, or certified home is in violation of requirements for approval or licensure.

Evidence-based tools developed in California by Sphere Institute that provide critical decision-making support for social work practice which involves data collection strategies that support safety and risk assessment.

A Comprehensive Child Welfare Information System (CCWIS; pronounced "see-whis") is a case management information system that states and tribes may develop to support their child welfare program needs. If a state or tribe elects to build a CCWIS compliant system, the federal government will provide additional funds to help pay for it as long as the system is designed to support social workers automation needs to organize and record quality case information about the children and families receiving child welfare services. The CCWIS regulation is effective August 1, 2016, and supersedes SACWIS requirements. It governs the way in which state and tribal title IV-E agencies will claim federal funding for child welfare information systems that support the administration of title IV-E and IV-B programs.

High-level conceptual models created as part of the initial requirements envisioning efforts and used to explore the high-level static business structures and concepts.

An innovative foster care case management approach that is employed by caseworkers and other child welfare staff members, where they pursue the primary goal of family reunification, while at the same time, developing an alternative permanency plan for the child. This alternate plan will often include adoption as the major alternative to family reunification. If the family reunification efforts fail, then the alternate plan will already be in place and well on its way to completion. Concurrent planning is intended to reduce the total period of time a child will remain in foster care before being permanently placed with a family (CDSS Manual of Policies and Procedures).

A means of setting up an application to serve a particular business need that does not require custom coding. Uses the platform’s inherent features.

Refers to any component that needs to be managed in order to deliver an IT service, and anything that needs to follow a formal change control process. Information about each Configuration Item is recorded in a configuration record within a configuration management system and is maintained throughout its lifecycle.

An ITIL term for a database used by an organization to store information about hardware and software assets

​In the context of project management, the detailed recording and updating of information that describes an enterprise's hardware and software. Such information typically includes the versions and updates that have been applied to installed software packages and the locations and network addresses of hardware devices.