SAWS Chapter 303 of the Budget Act of 1995:
To achieve a Statewide Automated Welfare System (SAWS)
the 1995 State Budget Act facilitated the formation of up to
four county consortia to design an automated welfare system.
These consortia guided by federal and state laws, regulation,
rules and policies were granted autonomy by the state to develop
and implement the system of their choice. The four Consortia
created the following four systems:
Interim Statewide Automated Welfare System (ISAWS):
Includes 35 counties and equals 13% of the state caseload
Los Angeles Eligibility Automated Determination Evaluation
and Reporting System (LEADER): Los Angeles County equals 34%
of the state caseload
CalWORKs Welfare Information Network (CalWIN): Formerly
Welfare Case Data System includes 18 counties and equals
41% of the state caseload
Consortium IV (C-IV): Includes four counties and equals 12%
of the state caseload
Consortium IV The four counties of San Bernardino, Stanislaus, Riverside,
and Merced came together in 1996:
12% of California caseload
346,709 cases and 5,696 workers
The C-IV counties created a Joint Powers Authority (JPA)
whose Board of Directors includes the directors of each county’s
social services department. The C-IV JPA provides a single legal
entity for purposes of procurement and contracting for the automated
system.
In 2001, Consortium IV contracted with Accenture to provide an
integrated, user friendly, automated system to manage the increasing
complexity of public assistance and employment programs, and to achieve
the outcomes required by welfare reform. Accenture provided project
management, design, development, testing, infrastructure build, user
training, implementation, and maintenance services.
The C-IV System was successfully implemented by October 2004.
The System is a user-friendly, customer-focused, on-line and
fully integrated information system. Please refer to the C-IV
System Overview page for additional details on the C-IV System.
History of ISAWS The Interim Statewide Automated Welfare System
(ISAWS) is one of the four original consortia and is
composed of 35 counties. The ISAWS system began in
Napa county in 1991 as NAPAS. NAPAS was renamed ISAWS
in 1997/98 with the addition of 20 counties
(NAPAS was implemented in NAPA and 14 other counties prior to 1997).
In November 2004, the 35 ISAWS counties voted unanimously to
implement the C-IV System. The ISAWS counties joined Consortium
IV in May 2007 resulting in three consortia in California. The
new Consortium IV is composed of 39 Counties, including:
Alpine, Amador, Butte, Calaveras, Colusa, Del Norte,
El Dorado, Glenn, Humboldt, Imperial, Inyo, Kern, Kings,
Lake, Lassen, Madera, Marin, Mariposa, Mendocino, Merced,
Mono, Monterey, Modoc, Napa, Nevada, Plumas,
Riverside, San Benito, San Bernardino, San Joaquin, Shasta, Stanislaus,
Sierra, Siskiyou, Sutter, Tehama, Trinity, Tuolumne, Yuba.
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