Updated mandatory reporter training

Washington State Health Care Authority sent this bulletin at 02/03/2025 07:35 AM PST

February 3, 2025

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Updated mandatory reporter training

The Health Care Authority (HCA) is sending this bulletin on behalf of the Department of Children, Youth & Families (DCYF).

The Department of Children, Youth & Families (DCYF) has launched its updated mandatory reporter training with an emphasis on supporting families. Mandatory reporters are professionals and volunteers who work with children, youth, and families and are legally required to report child abuse and/or neglect.

Updated training topics

Distinctions between poverty and neglect, and available resources that mandatory reporters can use to help families.
Videos highlighting the impact of child abuse and neglect reports. 
Knowledge checks that allow mandatory reporters to practice complex, real-life scenarios in a no-risk environment.

For the past two years, DCYF staff from across the agency have collaborated with:

Medical professionals
Public education
Court and law enforcement professionals
Tribal partners
Parent representatives
Lived experts
The Alliance for Professional Development, Training, and Caregiver Excellence

Other collaborators have helped to shape this eLearning and inform changes made to the DCYF website and publications that focus on recognizing and reporting child abuse and neglect.   

DCYF hopes this training supports mandatory reporters to connect children and families with valuable community resources and preventing intake calls for issues that could be better addressed by ongoing community supports.

Learn more

Visit the updated reporting abuse and neglect webpages and mandatory reporting toolkit.

Start the updated mandatory reporter training

Contact

Email: DCYF community engagement

About the Health Care Authority (HCA)

Functioning as both the state's largest health care purchaser and its behavioral health authority, the Washington State Health Care Authority (HCA) is a leader in ensuring Washington residents have the opportunity to be as healthy as possible.

There are three pillars of our work: Apple Health (Medicaid); the Public Employees Benefits Board (PEBB) and School Employees Benefits Board (SEBB) programs; and behavioral health and recovery. Under these pillars, HCA purchases health care, including behavioral health treatment for more than 2.7 million Washington residents and provides behavioral health prevention, crisis, and recovery supports to all Washington residents.

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