Become an approved MSW Field Placement Site
We depend on agencies and social workers across the country to collaborate with programs of social work to provide experiential learning opportunities for students to learn the role of social work in a variety of areas. Field Education also provides many benefits in the agency setting and to the Field Supervisor. We need you!
Benefits of becoming an agency field partner:
- Students provide 480 hours of services in the agency setting
- Students can provide additional services to clients that social workers often cannot provide due to time and billing constraints
- Serve as an on-the-job training and evaluation for potential employees
- Students engage in providing client services for individuals, families, and groups
- Students assist with updating community resources, current literature reviews, grant writing, research, and client assessments
- Faculty expertise provided through the Faculty Liaison assigned to the agency
- Over 20 hours of free continuing education provided each year to all approved agency supervisors, including BACS, clinical, ethics, and general
- Opportunity to engage in cutting edge research and evidence-informed best practice
Interested in learning more about becoming a partner and hosting LSU interns?
Please fill out this quick survey to tell us more about your agency so we can contact you.
You can also email fieldtrainings@lsu.edu for more information on how you can become an agency field partner.