Civil Rights Training

people in a training class

To meet the DCF training requirement, agency staff must complete CRC training every three years. The training does not have to be completed on exact 3-year intervals. Example: If someone completed training on March 1, 2020, they would need to complete training again within the 2023 calendar year.

Ways to Meet Training Requirements

Agencies can meet DCF civil rights training requirements in the following ways:

  1. Complete civil rights training provided by a countywide agency, such as county department of administration or department of human resources.
  2. Use CRC training curriculum from their own source and conduct their own in-house training.
  3. Attend a civil rights training offered through the DCF Office of Civil Rights. These classes are offered several times a year.

Maintaining Records

Ways to maintain records once the CRC training has been completed.

  • Child Support Agency staff taking the PTT training.
    • Records will be maintained within the PTT transcript.
  • Agency staff taking CRC training outside of PTT.
    •  The agency should develop its own form or method to tracking completion of CRC training.

DCF Civil Rights Training Requirements for Agency Staff

The Civil Rights Compliance Training may be used by agency staff, to meet DCF Civil Rights training requirements.

Additional Resources

The following Civil Rights training materials are a resource that child welfare agencies may use in addition to the resources above, but alone they do not meet DCF Civil Rights training requirements.

Civil Rights for Child Welfare Professionals course

This course provides a brief overview of federal civil rights laws as they pertain to program delivery and the laws that govern civil rights protections using daily practice examples that child protective services, foster care, and youth justice professionals are likely to encounter. In addition, the complaint process, and the rights of service recipients to make complaints at the agency, state, and federal levels are explained.

According to WCWPDS, this training is appropriate for:

  • County child protective services, foster care, and youth justice professionals
  • Tribal child protective services, foster care, and youth justice professionals
  • Agency staff whom county and tribal agencies contract with for the provision of child welfare services.

For additional information, contact the DCF Equal Opportunity Officer by email or by phone at 608-422-6889 or the Wisconsin Relay Service (WRS) – 711.