Making a Difference #2: Traineeship Legacies and Lessons Learned
Webinar held April 22, 2014
Traineeship Legacies & Lessons Learned was the second session in our 4-part national webinar mini-series, Making a Difference: NCWWI Impact & Lessons Learned (2008-2013). This webinar session offers a range of insights from experienced social work educators involved in the 2009-2014 NCWWI Traineeships, who answer questions and provide examples of lessons learned – i.e., what they learned to do and not to do, and when to do it and how – to support best practice approaches for BSW and MSW education of students for child welfare careers.
Discussion topics covered in this webinar include:
- Engaging in University-Agency teamwork;
- Collaborating with tribal child welfare organizations;
- Examining undergraduate and graduate social work education and child welfare workforce needs;
- Delivering innovative classroom curricula;
- Assembling cutting edge field placement models;
- Effective recruiting methods for finding the “right” students;
- Discovering and building in critical student supports;
- Making good use of technology;
- Tailoring activities to better support Native American students and other diverse students in specific institutional contexts, as well as in urban and rural communities and regions;
- Taking advantage of NCWWI resources; and,
- Thinking about the future of social work education and child welfare workforce preparation.
Our panelists are:
- Virginia Drywater-Whitekiller, Northeastern State University
- Heather Craig-Oldsen, Briar Cliff University
- Margaret Counts-Spriggs, Clark Atlanta University
- Debra Linsenmeyer,University of Maryland
- Joanne Riebschleger,Michigan State University
- Lyn Slater, Fordham University
Recording and Handouts