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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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.  

SCRUM Master (CSM)

an entry-level certification aimed at providing professionals with an awareness of the methodologies and values of Scrum, including team performance, accountability, and iterative progress.

SDX Interface (SDX)

Provides information to the DHCS systems from the SSA on Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipients. The information is provided on a daily basis.

Secure Email Gateway (SEG)

A solution that improves the protection of incoming and outgoing emails. It’s a product widely used by businesses and governments to block cyber threats, such as spam, phishing, BEC (Business Email Compromise), trojan, ransomware, and other types of malware.

Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA)

Part of state and federal requirements on securing data. The SHA works in conjunction with the System Security Plan (SSP). SHA (Secure Hash Algorithm) is a National Security Agency designed hash function used to secure data. The call out in the narrative of the SSP is to ensure that the system architect ensures that the version of SHA meets or exceeds current cryptographic security standards. SHA is a family of cryptographic hash functions published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as a U.S. Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS)

Secure Shell (SSH)

A cryptographic network protocol for operating network services securely over an unsecured network.