Please Note: Prospective applicants should be aware that in entering the social work profession they will likely be asked by agencies for information about any criminal offenses. The Criminal Offender Records Information (CORI) is a background check for interns and job applicants. While accepting interns or hiring job applicants is largely at the discretion of individual agencies, many agencies are prohibited by law from accepting individuals with a criminal history.
Complete your fieldwork
The field practicum is an essential and integral component of the advanced generalist practice model. It is the link between classroom knowledge and social work practice from an advanced generalist perspective.
You’ll serve in two practicums in community agencies to develop required professional social work competencies. Supervised by experienced social workers, you will perform a variety of multilevel social work interventions with individuals, families, groups, organizations, communities, and social systems, learning to work effectively in different settings.
The School of Social Work has field relationships with more than 350 agencies throughout New England and New York. Field placements are approved and assigned by the school. Students may suggest placements, but final approval is based on the site’s ability to provide appropriate supervision and experiences that allow for achievement of curricular objectives and professional social work competencies.
Students in both the weekday and weekend programs must arrange flexible employment and personal schedules for weekday, daytime internship hours, thus allowing for the full range of professional social work experiences at the assigned agency. Employment-based internships are possible, subject to approval, if the agency can provide a separate eligible supervisor and separate responsibilities.
Your faculty advisor and the faculty and professional staff of the field ofice will guide you throughout your practicum. This ensures the constructive development of your social work skills and professional capabilities. Coursework and the field seminar take place concurrent with the field experience to help students integrate individual experiences with the curriculum and to allow exploration of issues with faculty and student colleagues.
For more information, visit
springfieldcollege.edu/ssw.
FIELD EDUCATION
“Field education is critical to effective social work education and the Springfield College School of Social Work works with about 300 agencies across New England and New York State to provide educationally challenging field experiences. In fact, field education has been
named the ‘signature pedagogy’ of social work education by the Council on Social Work Education, meaning that field education is how students put theory into practice, bring practice to theory, and fully prepare to join the profession upon graduation.”
William T. Fisher Jr., MEd, MSW, EdD Professor and Director of Field Education
“I was recently asked by a friend, ‘If you were doing it again, what career would you choose?’ Without delay I answered, ‘social work.’ Having the experience of urban school social work, trauma counseling, and suicide assessment, I truly respect and value the passion that is involved in making a difference in a person’s
life. SCSSW advanced generalist perspective fosters the opportunity to develop a strong foundation of diverse social work skills. In addition, the field education component allows the student to put into practice and truly master those skills. It is an opportunity second to none, in allowing the student to manifest hat passion which is alive within and has brought one to this point.”
Glenn G. Gemma, MSW, LCSW Assistant Director of Field Education
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