Field Notes highlights student experiences in their Title IV-E field placements.
This week, several MSW Child Welfare students, most of whom are currently interning at Hennepin County in child protection and child welfare units, toured St. Joseph's Home for Children in Minneapolis. Many of the current students have worked with children who have stayed at St. Joseph's when they were removed from their homes due to [...]
Earlier this month, 13 of our IV-E MSW Child Welfare students completed the Minnesota Department of Human Services' Child Welfare Foundation Training (CWFT). The CWFT is mandatory for all newly hired child welfare workers in counties throughout Minnesota, as well as new hires from White Earth and Leech Lake. The training meets the statutory requirement [...]
MSW IV-E students who are currently in a field placement journal about their experiences, perspectives, new learning, and awareness in their field work. Below, one of our current students reflected this week on the value of her experience and training within the IV-E program and her awareness of the power and influence child protection workers [...]
MSW Field Instructor Pauline Shimada-Hayward (left) & MSW IV-E Child Welfare Student Eenang Khang (right) Eenang has been interning with Hennepin County in their Child Protection Family Assessment Unit since September 2014. She will continue her work there though May of 2015. Below Eenang briefly describes what she is Driven to Discover in her field [...]
These words from Paul Wellstone are written in 11 languages in the main hall of Neighborhood House’s Paul and Sheila Wellstone Center for Community Building. Frewoine Nerea (left), Ann Rajkowski MSW student (center) and Asha Mohamud (right)Currently 2 of our MSW Child Welfare scholars are working with and learning more about families coming to the [...]
State Capitol Building, St. Paul, MN. Image source: Patrick O'Leary/University of Minnesota On November 5 and November 14th, the Governor's Task Force on the Protection of Children met for the 3rd and 4th time at the State Office Building in St. Paul. Several of our current MSW IV-E Child Welfare students attended and a few [...]
MSW IV-E student Krysta Sather is Driven to Discover "ways I can be an ally for children, so they can stay safe and keep being a kid." Krysta is a first year student interning at Washburn Center for Children. Below is a reflection of their work with a young child who is in the permanency [...]
Photo by romfarer/johanne ådnegard on flickr MSW IV-E Child Welfare students write a field journal throughout the course of their internships. In these journal entries, students reflect on their growth, experiences, strengths, challenges, difficulties, successes, supervision, learning, insights, etc. from the field placement. Below is a recent field reflection from a current IV-E student interning [...]
