Contra Costa County is one of eighteen counties (including Alameda, Fresno, Orange, Placer, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, San Luis Obispo, San Mateo, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, Solano, Sonoma, Tulare, Ventura, and Yolo) that make up the Welfare Client Data Systems Consortium. All eighteen counties in this consortium utilize the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Information Network (CalWIN), as their welfare client data system. CalWIN is an automated welfare benefits and eligibility system. Each county compensates CSAC Finance Corporation (CSAC) to provide long range planning, ongoing development, enhancement, systems oversight, and maintenance aspects for the CalWIN system. The total contract amount for the three-year period, FY 2019-20 through FY 2021-22, represents Contra Costa County's proportional share of cost for the CalWIN system's management.
As presented to the Board on March 19, 2019 (D.3), Contra Costa County is working with all 58 California counties to form a new California's Statewide Automated Welfare Systems (CalSAWS) Consortium to develop and migrate to a new statewide welfare client data system by 2022. This three-year contract term to continue using the current system will not conflict with that work.
Contra Costa County would not be supported through CSAC to administer the current automated welfare benefits and eligibility system used by the Welfare Client Data Systems Consortium.