Does anyone have any suggestions on where to send a newly appointed CRA Officer for training?

I second that.

So what happened? No one wants the title or the job so management dumped it someone who knows nothing? Geez....I wouldn't even know where to start.

When I started out in CRA, my bank sent me to the 2011 CRA and Fair Lending Colloquium sponsored by ABA and Wolters Kluwer. The bank enrolled me in a pre-session on CRA Basics. Between the Basics session and the contacts I made, I would say it was a good value for the money.

Beyond that, read, read, read the CRA reg and the FAQs. Search the web for CRA info. The FRB of San Francisco is a good source of materials. BOL is an excellent source too. Hopefully you have some compliance background. Without that I would have been totally lost. Good Luck!

Dallas Fed has some good information too.

I agree, the best way to learn CRA is to read the reg and the Q&A's.