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  • 1.  Crowdsourcing veterinary social work resources

    Posted 10 days ago

    Hi all,

    Hope you are doing well and taking good care!

    I'm looking for resources about veterinary social work as I attempt to build a new local placement, and am wondering if any of you have some things that might be helpful to share?

    I did do a search of this SPARK Community's archives and found a post from 2023 where folks were similarly inquiring, and I downloaded at least one intern position description (NYC MSW Intern Position Description) linked there.

    I am currently working with a student on this who will be reaching out to the University of Tennessee's VSW program as well, but in the interim, I would be genuinely grateful for any intern position descriptions, veterinary social worker job descriptions, recommendations of resources and/or contacts, etc.

    Many thanks in advance for your consideration here, and also for the myriad of other things you do,

    Jean



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    Jean Sienkewicz (she/her/hers)
    Senior Lecturer, Practicum Education Coordinator
    University of Vermont
    Burlington VT
    +1 (802) 656-9657
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  • 2.  RE: Crowdsourcing veterinary social work resources

    Posted 9 days ago

    Hi Jean- Massachusetts has a veterinary school, the Tufts University Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine in Grafton MA.  There is a great social work team there run by Eric Richman; https://vet.tufts.edu/counseling-and-support.  They provide care in the clinics for the family but also internal support for the staff, given the social/emotional challenges they see in providing care.  



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    Susan Coleman
    Assistant Dean of Field Education, retired
    Boston College School of Social Work
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