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Wisconsin Child Welfare Training System
The Wisconsin child welfare training system develops and delivers competency-based training to child welfare staff, managers and caregivers. The training provided is family centered, child focused, strength based, culturally responsive and designed to result in competent delivery of child welfare services throughout Wisconsin. Training is accomplished through formal partnership and collaboration between county and tribal child welfare agencies, Department of Children and Families, the University of Wisconsin system and the Foster Care and Adoption Resource Center. Training initiatives and activities are integrated with other educational and organizational change strategies to promote and achieve excellence in the child welfare program. The Wisconsin Child Welfare Training System is comprised of 71 county agencies, 11 tribes, four UW System Universities and the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families, the DCF State Adoption Program, and the service provider agencies of the Division of Safety and Permanency (DSP) Bureau of Milwaukee Child Welfare (BMCW). The counties, state programs, tribes and universities are organized into five Training Partnerships: NEW Partnership for Children and Families and the Inter-Tribal Child Welfare Training Partnership, both at UW - Green Bay, Social Work Program; Southern Child Welfare Training Partnership, at UW - Madison, School of Human Ecology; Western Wisconsin Partnership, at UW - River Falls, Social Work Department; and The Milwaukee Partnership for Professional Development, at UW-Milwaukee Helen Bader School of Social Welfare. Each Partnership, in collaboration with the counties, state programs and tribes located in their respective regions and DCF as the state child welfare agency, develop and implement training programs that are responsive to local training needs as well as to state and federal policy changes. The training system is overseen by the Wisconsin Child Welfare Training Council, which coordinates and integrates the training provided by the Regional and Tribal Partnerships with each other and DCF.Last Revised: July 01, 2008 |
