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 [...]
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 [...]
Photo with field instructor: Carol Anderson, LICSW (left) and Kristen Struss, MSW IV-E student (right) Kristen blogs about her summer internship at her place of employment, where her focus for the summer has been on learning about and gaining skill in a child protection supervisory role. In addition to her field task instructor, Kristen also [...]
Photo with field instructor: Molly Kenney, LICSW (left) and Morgan Larson, MSW IV-E student (right) Morgan blogs about interning at the Mpls Crisis Nursery. The mission of the Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery is to end child abuse and neglect and create strong, healthy families. The Nursery offers a 24 hour Crisis Helpline, Crisis Counseling, Overnight [...]
Photo with field supervisors: Jennifer Droneck, LSW, Task Supervisor; Tarynn Anderson, MSW IV-E student; Jessica Nelson, LICSW, Field Supervisor Tarynn blogs about interning in Child Protection in Wright County Child Protection. My internship is at Wright County Human Services in Child Protection investigations. The investigators primary role is to investigate maltreatment allegations and work with [...]
Faiza's Family Assessment Unit at Hennepin County. Faiza blogs about interning in one of the Child Protection Family Assessment units at Hennepin County. MSW Title IV-E Child Welfare Student: Faiza Ali Hennepin County Field Instructor: Pauline Shimada Hayward, LICSW Field Site: Hennepin County "I am completing my summer block internship at Hennepin County Child Protection [...]
Photo taken after students charted both themselves & their field instructors within the 4 categories of learning style. Source: UMN SSW As students begin their field placements, one of the exercises they do in field seminar is completing a learning style inventory. This activity provides insight to the students to help them better understand themselves [...]
