Mandated Reporter Training

Pursuant to the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act (ANCRA), the State Superintendent has indicated that student teachers are mandated reporters of child abuse and neglect when acting in their professional or official capacity.

All teacher education candidates must complete the online training the semester they apply to student teach. Allow 60-90 minutes on a computer attached to a printer so that the certificate can be printed at the time training is finished.https://mandatedreporter.dcfs.illinois.gov/en/index-man. Students will create a DCFS training account using their WIU e-mail and then give authorization to begin training.  When creating an account, you can identify that you are training for school and choose teacher, and then for the company/org WIU .  If you use a work email, you will be taken to a different training based on the role you identified for work which means that it will not be the correct training for the teacher role that you will be holding as a student teacher. If you do not have an WIU email assigned, you can attempt to use a personal email, but access may not be given by DCFS. 

A copy of the certificate must be submitted to the Office of Teacher Education along with the mandated reporter status form.