Field Resources
The Social Work Field Education Team
Cherry Malone (left) is the MSW Field Director. She handles all clinical affiliation contracts, and places all 1st year MSW students in their internships. **Update 9/9/24 - Cherry Malone is currently out on FMLA. Please contact Maggie Landry for field inquiries and clinical affiliation agreements.
Maggie Landry (middle) is the Assistant MSW Field Director. She places all 2nd year MSW students in their internships, and is considered the Field Team's "tech person". Maggie can be contacted via email or phone: malandry@memphis.edu or 901.466.6689.
Danielle Seemann (right) is the BA Field Director. She places all undergraduate social work students in their internships. Danielle can be contacted via email or phone: dswatson@memphis.edu or 901.493.3676.
Potential Field Placements
Do you work for a social service agency in the community? Would you be interested in hosting a field placement internship? All potential field agency sites must participate in a "Prospective Agency Meeting" with the field directors before the Clinical Affiliation process can be started. At this time, we are meeting potential agencies via Microsoft Teams. This meeting typically takes anywhere from 30-60 minutes, and is meant to gather basic information on what the agency does, what population is served, how the agency plans to utilize social work student interns, onboarding requirements, etc. Contact Cherry Malone for more details or to schedule this meeting.
In order to get the Clinical Affiliation Agreement process started, agencies need the following items completed:
Potential Field Agency Form (Qualtrics survey)
Field Instructor Information Sheet (Qualtrics survey - must upload resume to this)
Once a prospective agency meeting has taken place, and these two forms (above) are completed, the clinical affiliation agreement can be drafted and sent to the appropriate agency contact for review and signature. Once we receive the CAA back, it gets forwarded to our Procurement team, and then finalized. Agencies should note that students may NOT begin their internships until the CAA is finalized by UofM Procurement and sent back to the agency.
Training for Field Instructors
The 2024-2025 Field Instructor Training was recorded live on Friday, August 2, 2024. The training is now available to all those who may have missed that live training. Please watch the recording and complete the embedded evaluation in order to download your CEU certificate of completion. The PowerPoint Presentation used can be downloaded here, or upon submission of the recording evaluation.
Resources
Active Field Instructors can find forms that they need here.
Quick reference guide for AY 24-25. This quick reference document includes a breakdown of hours required by each program level, start/stop dates for Fall 2024 and Spring 2025 (Summer 2025 dates are TBD), and other important reference information.
Tevera manual for completing the Field Instructor Evaluation. *Please note, this is on legal-size paper; if printing a hard copy, please select "fit to page" or "shrink to fit" before printing.
Additional manuals for Tevera are forthcoming, and will be posted to this website when available.
Field Form Hosting on Tevera
The School of Social Work utilizes Tevera for all field form hosting needs.
Current field instructors with Tevera accounts, please use this link to login, here.
If you have not been invited by a field director to register for a Tevera account, please DO NOT try to register for a Tevera account. Please reach out to a field director for assistance.