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Sibyl Beaulieu

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RE: Field internship hours

Posted By Sibyl Beaulieu Apr 18, 2024 09:52
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Hi Joyce: I don't believe agencies worry about the amount of field, as long as the student has been conferred the MSW degree. This seems to be the most important aspect of employer's academic concerns regarding candidates. We still require 1000 hours, but our students have rarely been asked how many ...

RE: Rolling Practicum

Posted By Sibyl Beaulieu Feb 15, 2024 12:06
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Hi Desiree: I've been doing rolling admissions since 2014. A few things I learned, we limited BSW to four times yearly, 2X in Fall (Fall I and 2) and twice in Summer (Summer 1 and 2). We are a tri-semester system, with 8 week sessions each trimester. We do not place BSW student in the Spring trimester. ...

RE: Student Terminated from Internship - Process Question

Posted By Sibyl Beaulieu Feb 06, 2024 11:55
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Hi Shenita: We use the same 4 step process to address all concerns or challenges the student engages in during field. The termination automatically triggers a Step 1 Conduct meeting, where we meet with the student discuss the details we know, listen to the student's view point and provide recommendations ...

RE: Student Terminated from Internship - Process Question

Posted By Sibyl Beaulieu Feb 01, 2024 11:42
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Hi Sarah: I think it would be a significant mistake regarding field faculty's autonomy to allow an outside entity to make decisions about field students. Our process involves a four step conduct process, starting with documenting the concerns on the professional disposition inventory (PDI), which outlines ...

RE: Learning Plan - Employment Based Field Placements

Posted By Sibyl Beaulieu Oct 10, 2023 21:58
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RE: Learning Plan - Employment Based Field Placements

Posted By Sibyl Beaulieu Oct 10, 2023 21:58
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Hi Sarah: Attached please find our learning plan, which highlights the competencies required by CSWE, the professional behaviors that accompany those competencies, the agency activities that allows students to demonstrate those competencies and professional behaviors and the evaluation that the ...

Policy for students who lack fitness for practicum/internship

Posted By Sibyl Beaulieu Oct 10, 2023 21:51
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Hello Colleagues: I would love to hear from any of you who have existing policy that addresses when a student presents as lacking readiness or fitness to enter into field practicum/internship. If you are willing to share, please notify me as I need to address this with the Dean and Provost of my university ...

RE: Field Manual Question

Posted By Sibyl Beaulieu Oct 02, 2023 12:34
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Hi Bonnie: I am late to the questions, but we merged our field manual into one (e.g. The Social Work Department Field Manual). We use Sonia as our student tracking system and were able to load a copy of the form, rather than adopting their format for our field manual. Is it a possibility to use a link ...

Field Practicum and Seminar Transfer Policy

Posted By Sibyl Beaulieu Oct 02, 2023 12:22
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Hello Colleagues: Just wondering what your field practicum and seminar/internship transfer policy is. Do you allow students from other programs to transfer field credits and hours? If you do, what is your criteria used? If not, what is the policy language used? I'm asking for a question posed ...

RE: Transporting clients

Posted By Sibyl Beaulieu Jun 26, 2023 14:10
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Per our legal department, students cannot transport clients in their own vehicles.  They are allowed to transport clients in agency vehicles (that are marked as such) with the written consent of the agency allowing for student interns to transport on behalf of the agency, and are covered by the agency ...

RE: Starting Practicum Early

Posted By Sibyl Beaulieu Jun 20, 2023 12:52
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We don't allow students to start early.  But if the agency is willing to have the student as a volunteer, accepting the liability coverage for an agency volunteer - we allow students to engage as non-intern volunteers.  Their hours only begin on the first day of the academic term, which is when their ...

RE: Field Program Administration of Large MSW/BSW programs

Posted By Sibyl Beaulieu May 16, 2023 16:04
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Hi Allison: We have a very large program, with about 500 BSW students and almost 1200 MSW students.  We have around 500-600 students or more in field during the academic year.  We are a solely online distributive campus and place students across the US and internationally, as we have a large military ...