University of Wisconsin–Madison

Title IV-E Child Welfare Training Program Overview

Title IV-E Program Coordinator: Alice Egan, MSSW, APSW

The Public Child Welfare Training Program is designed to educate and train graduate and undergraduate-level social work students to prepare them for employment as practitioners in public child welfare.

Title IV-E Public Child Welfare Training Program Goals

  1. To strengthen Wisconsin’s public child welfare workforce by producing social workers with both undergraduate and graduate professional degrees in Social Work (BSW and MSW) with specializations in Public Child Welfare;
  2. To produce BSW entry-level Public Child Welfare practitioners with course and field work geared toward Public Child Welfare competencies;
  3. To produce MSW practitioners who are competent to function as Public Child Welfare workers with the requisite knowledge and specialized skills to engage in generalist practice roles with different sizes and types of client systems and/or who have the competence and skills to perform indirect service and policy and program levels as autonomous practitioners;
  4. To produce public child welfare supervisors and managers able to competently engage in administrative practice utilizing research;
  5. To increase the number of trained public child welfare practitioners reflecting the communities served by the child welfare system;
  6. To prepare current Public Child Welfare workers returning to school for advanced child welfare practice through achievement of an MSW degree.

The Training Program operates with federal funds made available through Title IV-E of the Social Security Act, which provides specified financial support for students committed to a career in public child welfare.

The Title IV-E Public Child Welfare Training Program is for Full- and Part-Time MSW Program students and full-time BSW students. All programs are offered at UW-Madison. Individual student preparation and academic background determine the time in all programs. Applicants to the traineeship must hold U.S. citizenship or have permanent residence status at the time of application. All programs have slightly different characteristics. Review the Traineeship Provisions below for information on the program in which you are interested.

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