Child Welfare Learning and Evaluation Bureau
The Child Welfare Learning and Evaluation Bureau (CWLEB) provides innovative, culturally-responsive, and trauma-informed workforce development services for child welfare social workers and juvenile probation placement officers. The primary focus of CWLEB is to cultivate and build a competent, committed, confident, and resilient statewide child welfare workforce.
The CWLEB coordinates and supports workforce development of child welfare professionals via contractual relationships with the University of California, Davis (UC Davis), UC Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (LA DCFS), and the statewide CalAcademies (formerly Regional Training Academies). This partnership is known as California Workforce Innovation and Support in Education (CalWISE).
Training For County Child Welfare Staff
Initial and continuing training for child welfare social workers and probation placement officers and their supervisors is delivered by the CalAcademies: Northern Academy, Bay Area Academy (BAA), Central California Training Academy (CCTA), Child Welfare Development Services (Southern Academy), and the Chief Probation Officers of California Foundation (CPOCF). Additionally, initial and continuing training for child welfare social workers and supervisors in Los Angeles County is provided by their DCFS University Training Team.
Training is provided to child welfare social workers and juvenile probation placement officers as detailed in the CDSS Staff Development and Training Manual, Section 14-610 and in the Welfare and Institutions Code 16206 et al.
Title IV-E Stipend Program
The Title IV-E Stipend Program is the nation's largest consortium of schools of social work delivering an approved competency-based child welfare curriculum and support for students committed to service in public child welfare. The program offers financial support to graduate social work students preparing for the field of public child welfare, available at 20 schools of social work. Upon graduation, students work in a county child welfare service for a time equal to the period for which they received support. The goal of the program is to increase the number of professional child welfare workers in California with Masters and Bachelors of Social Work.
California Child Welfare Training
The California Child Welfare Training (CACWT) learning management system is a vital component of the CalWISE Partnership to centralize and optimize the delivery of state-mandated child welfare training across California.
The CACWT's role within CalWISE is to provide a streamlined, accessible, and continuously evolving online platform that empowers county social workers, supervisors, and placement probation officers to efficiently complete required training, track progress, and access essential resources.
All county child welfare social workers juvenile probation placement officers in California have access to the CACWT platform. For more information on creating a CACWT account, please contact your regional CalAcademy, CPOCF, or your county training coordinator.
To view self-paced eLearnings that do not require a CACWT account, please visit Public Training.