What if you could have a cup of coffee or tea with fellow social work educators and discuss developing or enhancing a partnership with your state, county and tribal child welfare    organizations to better prepare students for child welfare practice?  Well, now you can!

 

On Tuesday, April 22, 2014, from 3-4:30 PM ET, come join  

• Margaret Counts-Spriggs, Clark Atlanta University 
• Heather Craig-Oldsen, Briarcliff University
• Joanne Riebschleger, Michigan State University
• Lyn Slater, Fordham University
• Virginia Whitekiller, Northeastern State University
• Debra Linsenmeyer, University of Maryland 

for Traineeship Legacies & Lessons Learned, the second session in our 4-part national webinar mini-series, Making a Difference: NCWWI Impact & Lessons Learned (2008-2013). This webinar session will offer a range of insights from experienced social work educators involved in the 2009-2014 NCWWI Traineeships, who will 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. Our panelists will discuss:  

• 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.