Chapter 4
Developing and Maintaining Partnerships with Practice Settings
Cindy A. Hunter and Nancy Trantham Poe
Chapter 4, Developing and Maintaining Partnerships with Practice Settings, guides field directors in the tasks of recruiting, selecting, and evaluating setting; and the importance of crafting formal agreements with practice settings. The authors emphasize the value of marketing schools of social work to constituents and offer strategies for expanding the pool of educational opportunities for students, including international options. The authors promote the development of interorganizational partnerships that offer a more stable field structure where teaching, scholarship, and program renewal is a collaborative endeavor for all partners in the institutional arrangement.
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Bibus, A. A., & Boutté-Queen, N. (2011). Regulating social work: A primer on licensing practice. Chicago: Lyceum Books. See http://lyceumbooks.com/RegulatingSocialWork.htm
Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). (2013). Accreditation. Alexandria, VA: Author. Retrieved from http://www.cswe.org/Accreditation/EPASImplementation.aspx
James Madison University. (2013). Field practicum manual, memorandum of agreement. Retrieved from http://www.jmu.edu/socwork/forms.html. See Field Practicum Manual for Supervisors. Memorandum of Agreement, p. 80.
Lager, P. B., Mathiesen, S. G., Rodgers, M. E., & Cox, S. E. (2010). Guidebook for international field placements and student exchanges: Planning, implementation, and sustainability. Alexandria, VA: Council on Social Work Education. See http://www.cswe.org/Publications/CSWEPressTitles/56395.aspx
International Semester Program in Social Work:
Social Work in a Latin American Context is a spring semester-long program in Cuernavaca, Mexico that satisfies the curriculum requirements for the undergraduate social work degree and is in accord with CSWE accreditation standards. The mission of the program is to develop cross-culturally competent, ethical social work professionals with a global perspective by providing a semester of transformative, experiential learning focused on social and economic justice. Students learn from local social workers and community leaders. The program also includes an exchange with Mexican students of social work and a field experience option. See http://www.augsburg.edu/global/semester/mexico-social-work/
