Welcome!
The child welfare professional development system is a partnership involving the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families (DCF), county child welfare programs, tribal child welfare programs, the Bureau of Milwaukee Child Welfare (BMCW) and Special Needs Adoption Program (SNAP) and the University of Wisconsin system. The child welfare training system, through the regional training partnerships, provides training for over 2,000 child welfare workers throughout the State of Wisconsin. This includes pre-service and foundation training for new workers and ongoing training for advanced practice skills and specialized topics.
Central administrative support to the child welfare training system is provided by the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Social Work under contract to DCF.
Training Calendar
An aggregate calendar that shows training events that are happening throughout the State of Wisconsin available primarily to workers employed in agencies providing public child welfare services. This calendar may be sorted by topic, regional training partnership, by date or by location of the training.
Caseworker Training
Pre-Service
This online course provides the training required for new child welfare workers employed as a child protective services caseworker.
Foundation
Made in conjunction with DCF 43, the administrative rule on child welfare training, Foundation training provides consistency and equity in the application of best practice in all 72 Wisconsin counties. Foundation training is standardized across the state and has been updated to focus more on skill development for child welfare workers.
Special Skills and Topics
Special Skills training is made available through the regional training partnerships to provide knowledge and skill development in specific areas of child welfare.
Foster Parent Training
Foster Parent training is made available through the regional training partnerships and through county child welfare agencies to provide knowledge and skill development for foster care providers and coordinators.
Committees
Here you will find materials presented to Wisconsin's statewide child welfare training council, as well as relevant subcommittee information.
Curriculum Library
All training curriculum and materials are available to the public. This area contains a listing of all available foundation and special skills training. We request that you contact the state curriculum coordinator prior to receiving these materials.
Links
Provides links to resources that are useful for Wisconsin child welfare workers.
Leadership Training
Web-based training modules for those in their first year of providing supervision to complete as part of their Initial Supervisor Training.