In this post, a Title IV-E child welfare student writes about her field placement experience in Ramsey County's Family Assessment Unit. MSW Title IV-E Child Welfare Student: Bahjo Mahamud Field Task Supervisor: Sophia Thompson Field Site: Family Assessment Unit at Ramsey County Social Services "Working with Sophia Thompson and the entire Family Assessment team at [...]
Sara, an intern in a child protection unit at a county here in Minnesota, writes about issues pertaining to caseload management, worker turnover, and client outcomes, specifically in terms of foster care re-entry, based on her observations in her field placement. As a child protection intern in a large County, I have seen how difficult [...]
Shavon blogs about working with with her field instructor, Faith Jaspersen, at Family Alternatives. MSW Title IV-E Child Welfare Student: Shavon Swain Field Instructor: Faith Jaspersen Field Site: Family Alternatives "Working with Faith and her team at Family Alternatives has been an amazing learning experience. Faith has been generous with her knowledge and very supportive [...]
In this Field Notes post, Shavon writes about her field placement working with youth at Family Alternatives, a local foster care and adoption agency. I am a IV-E Child Welfare scholar in the MSW program at the University of Minnesota School of Social Work, and I am completing my first field placement at Family Alternatives. Family [...]
As part of the Field Notes blog, we will be profiling MSW Title IV-E child welfare students and their field instructors in order to acknowledge the many social work professionals with whom they are working as well as to provide the public with some insight into the content and variety of MSW child welfare field [...]
The intent of Field Notes is to provide a venue for MSW child welfare students to write about their field placement experiences while also providing the public with some insight into what MSW child welfare field placements are like. I am a IV-E scholar this year and am interning at a school as my first [...]
