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History of Statewide Automated Welfare System |
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Welfare and Institutions Code section 10823 enabled the development of a multiple county Consortium as the foundation of the Statewide Automated Welfare System (SAWS) Project. The purpose of the Consortium concept was to facilitate the collaboration of Counties in meeting their business needs in the areas of System planning, development, implementation, operations, and maintenance. The Consortium concept was intended to provide flexibility to county welfare departments while balancing choice with funding limitations. Currently SAWS is being operated through three (3) Consortia:
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In 1996, the Consortium IV (C-IV) established itself as a Joint Powers Authority (JPA) by Agreement with the member Counties. As a JPA, the C-IV provides a single legal entity, separate from its members, for purposes of managing the Consortium and its C-IV System. C-IV is governed and administered by its Board of Directors. In 2001, C-IV contracted with Accenture to develop and implement a web-based, automated system to manage the increasing complexity of public assistance and employment programs. Accenture provided project management, design, development, testing, infrastructure build, user training, implementation and maintenance services. The Consortium provided Business Analysts to convey the necessary welfare background and business knowledge and to interpret state and federal regulations. The Consortium began C-IV System development on March 1, 2001, and completed implementation in October 2004. Merced County became Operational in March 2004, Stanislaus County in April 2004, Riverside County in August 2004, and San Bernardino County in late September 2004. As part of the Interim Statewide Automated Welfare System (ISAWS) Migration Project, the 35 ISAWS Consortium Counties joined Consortium IV in June 2007. As of June 2010, following the full Conversion from ISAWS to the C-IV System, the ISAWS Consortium ceased to exist as a SAWS Consortium. The C-IV Member Counties are organized into seven (7) Regions as illustrated in the table below. |
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C-IV System The C-IV System is a User-friendly, Customer-based, on-line and fully integrated information System designed to manage the Data for the following public assistance programs:
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