[check one or both] Concentration in Social Work Leadership and Management (SWLM)

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1 School of Social Work Revised January 2012 Concentration Learning Agreement - MSW Field Practicum II and III [check one or both] Concentration in Social Work Leadership and Management (SWLM) Semester: Year: Student Name: ID#: Student Address/ City/State/Zip: Phone (home, cell, work): Agency Name: Address/City/State/Zip Phone: Fax: MSW Field Instructor: Job Title: Degree: Year received: Address/City/State/Zip Phone: Fax: In what department or section will you be based: Task Supervisor (if different from MSW instructor): Address/City/State/Zip Phone: Fax: Student s Faculty advisor: Practicum Dates: (Begin) (End) Is this a 2 semester practicum at the same agency? Yes No Is this practicum being completed in the agency in which the student works as a paid employee? Yes No (If yes, please complete required form) Signatures: Student Date Faculty Liaison Date Practicum Instructor Date Office of Field Education Date Certificate Option Coordinator Date 1

2 (REQUIRED for CERTIFICATE option) SECTION I Summary of Practicum Experience: Complete the questions below to describe the agency setting and population. AGENCY: What is the mission of the agency? What services does the agency provide? What population(s) does the agency serve? SUMMARY OF STUDENT S ROLE What activities will you engage in during the course of your practicum? A. List your primary responsibilities (e.g. conduct assessments, run groups, organize community meeting, follow legislation impacting your client population). [Students: List the major activities you will be doing this semester. Use these to fill in tasks under each of the competencies in the sections that follow.] B. List the products or deliverables you will create. (e.g., a program evaluation and report, a grant proposal, organize a conference, develop a program) [Students: List the things you will produce this semester. These can also be used to fill in tasks under each of the competencies in the sections that follow.] SUPERVISION: What is the day and time of the weekly supervision meetings? How will you prepare for supervision? 2

3 SECTION II Instructions for Completing the Competencies/Practice Behaviors As part of the Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS), the Council on Social Work Education has identified 10 Core Competencies that social work students are required to meet. Each EPAS has corresponding Practice Behaviors students must demonstrate as a measure of competency. Activity Section Please identify at least one (no more than three) tasks that demonstrate each Practice Behavior you list. The tasks should be specific and appropriate to your agency. Ask yourself: What specific knowledge and skill areas of social work practice will I apply in this setting? What specific theoretical frameworks will I draw upon? What interventions will I engage in? What type of recording or documentation will I learn? What product will I create? Evaluation Section In the evaluation section select the evaluation method(s) that your field instructor will use to assess whether or not you have demonstrated the practice behavior. COMPETENCY Identify as a professional social worker and conduct oneself accordingly Social workers in macro practice recognize the importance of professional conduct and of personal and professional development for organizational practice. Practice Behavior 1: Effectively uses personal reflection, self-correction, supervision, and consultation to enhance professional practice. Observe/interview management staff to learn about their jobs. Attend a board meeting and reflect on management s roles relative to the board. Observe a community meeting and assess your ability to relate to community members in a respectful, empathetic and professional manner. Give a presentation in the community about the work of the organization. 3

4 COMPETENCY Apply social work ethical principles to guide professional practice Social workers in macro practice: ascribe to the values and ethics advanced by NASW and CSWE; understand the use of the IFSW/IASSW Ethics in Social Work, Statement of Principles for arriving at principled decisions concerning social justice and human rights; understand that work within complex systems can generate conflicting priorities and ambiguities that require professional value-based judgments. Practice Behavior 1: Applies ethical standards and laws and assesses potential tension/conflicts in their application in professional social work practice in organizations and communities. Observe staff meetings and identify ethical dilemmas in program development or operations. Participate in budget preparation and identify ethical issues, decisions & potential conflicts. Review the Code of Ethics and the IFSW, IASSW Ethics in SW and assess the extent to which the organization complies with these standards. Practice Behavior 2: Applies ethical reasoning in promoting human rights and social justice in assessment, intervention, and evaluation of organizational and community practice. Evaluate a program and assess human rights protections. Design an intervention program and discuss the ways it promotes human rights and social justice. Conduct a staff or volunteer training on ethical issues in the organization/programs. COMPETENCY Apply critical thinking to inform and communicate professional judgments Social workers in macro practice approach organizational problem-solving using logical, scientific and reasoned frameworks for analysis and synthesis toward intervention. 4

5 Practice Behavior 1: Synthesizes theoretical and practice frameworks and sources of information to make professional judgments. Design a project, event, program using social science theory and evidence to guide design. Observe a staff meeting and identify organizational behavioral principles at work. Identify a management conflict or problem and apply a problem solving perspective. Conduct background research for a new program, bringing in evidence and best practices. Help set up hiring guidelines and review initial applications. Practice Behavior 2: Use logic, critical thinking and creativity in written and oral communication with organizations and communities. Research and write text for marketing materials for a program. Write a grant proposal using critical thinking skills. Conduct in-service training that demonstrates informed and clear communication skills. COMPETENCY Engage diversity and difference in practice Social workers in macro practice recognize diversity including age, race, class, color, culture, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, religion, political ideology, immigration status, sex and sexual orientation; and how these differences can influence oppression, poverty, marginalization, and alienation as well as privilege and power in organizations. Practice Behavior 2: Builds on strengths and ensures participation of diverse and marginalized organization and community constituents in assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating interventions. 5

6 Attend organization s diversity training. Research and incorporate diversity materials in staff/volunteer/client training programs. Expand a volunteer program to increase participation among diverse population groups. Evaluate a program s cultural competence. Develop an outreach program that will address how a certain group has been marginalized, exploited, or ignored. COMPETENCY Advance human rights and social and economic justice Social workers in macro practice are knowledgeable about the interconnections between oppression and theories/strategies to promote social justice and human rights, adhere to the principles of human rights advanced through national constitutional laws and through international declarations of human rights, including the seven declarations and conventions listed in the IFSW/IASSW Ethics in Social Work, Statement of Principles. Practice Behavior 2: Advances human rights and social justice principles aimed at eliminating social, economic and environmental injustice in organizations, communities, institutions, and society. Participate in social justice activities in the organization (e.g., homelessness count, hunger banquet ). Compile data about whether the agency is responding to oppressed or key underserved groups. Write a grant proposal that aims to increase economic opportunities or social inclusion of underserved or vulnerable groups. Design an outreach proposal for reaching an underserved group. 6

7 COMPETENCY Engage in research-informed practice and practice-informed research Social workers in macro practice utilize quantitative and qualitative research to understand the nature of organizations and the best practices to improve well-being in these macro systems; and integrate members of communities and organizations in the process and outcome evaluations of macro system interventions. Practice Behavior 2: Uses best practice evidence-informed research to develop, implement, and evaluate organizational and community interventions. Conduct a research project in conjunction with SW6400 Completion of project: SW6400 professor reviews and evaluates project. COMPETENCY Apply knowledge of human behavior and the social environment Social workers in macro practice recognize the central importance of human relationships, including the interconnection between people and place, between people and micro and macro social systems; and appreciate the unique contributions of cultural, environmental, urban, and rural contexts to organizations. Practice Behavior 2: Engages in interventions that enhance the ability of organizations and communities to improve well being. Research potential donor base and fundraising options. Organize a meeting to obtain community member or client group feedback about agency services. Conduct a community needs assessment. Research community services for referrals. COMPETENCY Engage in policy practice to advance social and economic well-being and to deliver effective social work services Social workers in macro practice recognize that social work is a non-partisan political profession, and that political processes and policies affect the social, economic and environmental wellbeing of individuals, families, communities and organizations, as well as social work practice. Practice Behavior 1: Analyze policies from historical, current, and global perspectives understanding the role of social, economic, and political forces on policy formulation, and implications for less powerful and oppressed groups. 7

8 Keep up to date on policy environment (e.g, scanning news and other sources). Conduct a study of polices on a topic of interest to the agency & clients Interview clients of the agency to gain greater insight into their history/background to inform agency services. Practice Behavior 2: Engage in policy practice, including collaboration and advocacy for policies that improve effectiveness of social services and wellbeing, especially among the most vulnerable. Lobby, or prepare and/or deliver testimony for a hearing of interest/ concern to the agency. Work with other agencies in a collaboration to improve services for a particular population. Help organize or join a coalition to influence policy. Participate in annual campaigns that raise awareness about client issues and concerns. COMPETENCY Respond to the contexts that shape practice Social workers in macro practice recognize and respond to the changing landscape of public, nonprofit, and for-profit organizations that comprise the social service sector, as well as to the social, economic, political, and environmental contexts that shape these organizations. Practice Behavior 1: Provide leadership in organizations and communities for effective, ethical interventions that improve the wellbeing of individuals, families, organizations and communities. Attend networking board or coordinating councils. Design or change agency policies to respond to changing economic and social conditions (e.g., funding cutbacks, addition of new programs). Organize and/or work with a group studying how the agency can become more efficient/ effective. Facilitate feedback by a client group to improve agency services. Lead efforts to review agency s services. 8

9 Practice Behavior 2: Apply theoretical frameworks to assess and analyze the impact of social, economic, and political contexts on organizations, especially NPOs. Apply (and critique) theories from leadership and management courses to my observations about organizational behavior. Identify theoretical frameworks that guide development of agency services, such as developing a curriculum or volunteer program. Identify theories of leadership that guide agency decision making. Practice Behavior 3: Strategically plan organizational and community change and development to improve social, economic, political, and environmental well-being. Work on a fundraising activity that brings in funds and builds the donor base of the organization. Work on a strategic plan (or one part of a strategic plan) aimed at improved agency effectiveness. Conduct a community needs assessment and develop programs to meet needs. Draft a grant proposal to improve well being for a particular group. 9

10 COMPETENCY Engage, assess, intervene, and evaluate with individuals, families, groups, organizations and communities Social workers in macro practice engage, assess, intervene, and evaluate organizations and their constituencies; Understand participatory methods and the importance of the worth and dignity of persons in all engagement, assessment, intervention, and evaluation efforts; Develop mutually agreed-on focus of work and desired outcomes. Practice Behavior 1: Engage with organizations, communities, and their constituencies to assess and analyze community/organization capacities, strengths, and needs. Attend orientation and staff meetings to learn more about the organization s capacity to meet the needs of clients and community. Conduct a community needs assessment. Meet with stakeholders to elicit their feedback and participation in an agency activity/ program. Meet with clients to elicit feedback on services. Practice Behavior 2: Disseminate evidence-based outcomes of interventions that contribute to understanding effects on well being. Report to staff on knowledge and skills gained in a seminar you attended. Interview experts on a topic of interest and report to agency staff. Report on research to staff, volunteers, board, or community members. Develop an item for newsletter reporting research. Practice Behavior 3: Engage stakeholders, including staff and community members, in participatory planning, intervention, and evaluation. 10

11 Develop an advisory group for an agency project. Participate in a staff committee to plan a new program. Participate in a strategic planning session. Practice Behavior 4: Demonstrate leadership and skill in human service organizations, in areas such as policy and task analysis, advocacy, governance, planning, program development, and program management, financial development/management, evaluation, human resources, and staff development. Identify potential board members or ad hoc board committee members. Lead a team to rewrite an agency policy. Conduct orientation of new employees. 11