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Field Placement
What sets Mount Mary's field education program apart from others is that we require three semesters of well supervised fieldwork (500 hours). Three field placements are offered at two different agencies offering students a greater understanding of social work as a profession and time to develop professional practice skills.
Fieldwork provides students with an opportunity to apply their classroom theory to work with actual client populations. A weekly two-hour seminar on campus permits students to share and learn from each others' experiences and to further improve their understanding of the strengths as well as injustices of people served by social workers globally.
Student Determined Placement -
The social work faculty work with students to determine field placements. Student's personal interests and career goals are seriously considered when determining the most appropriate placement.
The faculty also work closely with students and field agencies to ensure that upon graduation every student will have attained practice skills at the entry professional practice level.
Field education occurs during the junior and senior years when students spend 12 hours per week in fieldwork at selected local social service, health, education, criminal justice, and other organizations. During this time, students are also enrolled in additional courses.
Sites/Locations –
The entire metro Milwaukee area is used for field placements. Milwaukee's strong ethnic communities offer rich learning experiences for social work students. Mount Mary students are currently placed at the following sites -
- 2-1-1@Impact, Milwaukee
- American Red Cross, Milwaukee
- Benedict Center, Milwaukee
- Bread of Healing Clinic at Cross Lutheran Church, Milwaukee
- Carmelite Home Inc., Milwaukee
- The Cathedral Center: A Nonsectarian Agency for Women And Families, Milwaukee
- Catholic Charities/ Adult Day Care and Resource Center, Milwaukee
- Children's Service Society of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
- Franciscan Peacemakers, Milwaukee
- House of Love Youth Homes, Brown Deer
- Justice 2000, Milwaukee
- Lissy's Place, Milwaukee
- Lutheran Home Adult Day Services, Milwaukee
- Milwaukee Health Services, Inc., Milwaukee
- Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility, Milwaukee
- Mount Carmel Nursing Home, Milwaukee
- The Parenting Network, Milwaukee
- Parents’ Place, Waukesha
- Prevention & Protection of Abused Children, Waukesha
- Project Excel, Milwaukee
- Ruth Hospice, Milwaukee
- SAGE, Milwaukee
- Salvation Army Emergency Lodge, Milwaukee
- SDC 61st Street, West Allis
- SET Ministries, Milwaukee
- St. Rafael the Archangel School, Milwaukee
- Urban Day Head Start, Milwaukee
- Waukesha County Department of Health & Human Services, Waukesha
- Wisconsin Community Services, Milwaukee