Field Resources for Students

Your Field Directors

• Prof. Danielle Seemann (dswatson@memphis.edu) is the BA Field Director. She places all of the undergraduate social work students for their internships.
• Prof. Cherry Malone (ccmalone@memphis.edu) is the MSW Field Director. She places all of the first-year MSW students for their internships. Ms. Malone also is in charge of all of the clinical affiliation agreements for our agency partners.
• Prof. Maggie Landry (malandry@memphis.edu) is the Assistant MSW Field Director. She places all of the second-year and Advanced Standing MSW students for their internships.

COVID-19 and Field Education

Students entering field education are strongly encouraged to receive the COVID-19 vaccination. Many of our agency partners are requiring vaccination in addition to strict PPE protocols. Placement options may be limited if the student chooses not to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Please discuss this with your field director for further details on placement options that do not require vaccination. Note that agencies reserve the right to change their policies surrounding COVID-19 vaccination/PPE at any time, without warning.

Hourly requirements for Field

BA Students need a total of 400 hours for their placement:

SWRK 4830/4840 - 150 hours
SWRK 4831/4841 - 250 hours

Depending on the student's situation, this can break down into:
Fall Block: 28 hrs/wk (15 wks)
Fall/Spring: 13 hrs/wk (30 wks)
Spring Block: 28 hrs/wk (15 wks)
Spring/Summer: 16 hrs/wk (25 wks)
Summer/Fall: 16 hrs/wk (25 wks)

First-year MSW students need a total of 400 hours for their placement:

SWRK 7051 (fall) - 160 hours (14-16 hrs/wk)
SWRK 7052 (spring) - 240 hours (16-18 hrs/wk)

Second-year/Advanced Standing MSW students need a total of 500 hours for their placement:

SWRK 7053/7055 (fall) - 250 hours (18-20 hrs/wk)
SWRK 7054/7056 (spring) - 250 hours (18-20 hrs/wk)

All students are eligible to receive up to 25 hours for "volunteering" outside of their internship per semester. 

Field Handbooks and References

Academic Year 2022-2023 Quick Reference Guide

Undergraduate Field Manual

AY 2022-2023 Graduate Field Manual

Note that full-time MSW students are ON GROUND, DAYTIME classes. All students, regardless of program track must be available for weekday, daytime field placement internships. 

Field Forms

NASW Membership: All students enrolled in field education must obtain a membership with NASW. At this link, students can join, re-join, or renew their NASW memberships. Student memberships are $60 per year. If you are an MSW student who had a membership as a BSW student, you will need to call the 800-number at the bottom of the linked page and explain you are still a student, so they can edit your account and give you the correct membership rate.

Student Liability Insurance: All students enrolled in field education must obtain a liability insurance policy through NASW. At this link, please select the "Apply Online" button under "Students" (use this for renewals, too). Students are required to have the $1,000,000/$5,000,000 policy. The student policies are $15 per year. If you are an MSW student who had a policy as a BSW student, you will need to call the 888-number and explain you are still a student and need the student policy.

NASW Code of Ethics

IPT

Intern Placement Tracking (IPT) is the online database that hosts all forms relating to internship. Students will receive their login information from their respective field director. Login information will not change as the student progresses in the program, and will remain the same if the student was a BA student and entered the MSW program. If you forget your login information, please email your field director and ask them to reset your password. You will receive an automated email from IPT with your field director's name on it with your default username and default password.

IPT Student Manual

Access IPT for all your field needs at the link below. Be sure to set the Organization ID as "memphis". This is case sensitive.

runipt.com

The University of Memphis School of Social Work is moving to Tevera as of Summer 2023, in order to provide a seamless experience for our students to track their field placement internships. Students pay for Tevera by their nonrefundable $30 per-credit-hour lab fees associated with their field placement courses. Once a student has a Tevera account, they receive lifetime access. This means that they will not only use it to track their field placement internships while they are in school, but Tevera also allows for CEU tracking and licensure supervision hours tracking post-graduation. The data housed in Tevera never goes away, so students looking to verify their internship hours for licensure and/or jobs post-graduation will be able to do so independently. 

Frequently Asked Questions