Program Information This placement is for MSW students.
A student intern will experience a well-rounded elementary and/or middle school social work experience. Students will be working with youth 1:1, seeing students in groups, providing clinical case management services, helping to facilitate social-emotional learning presentations in classrooms. Students will work with special populations that may include our students experiencing homeless situations, students in foster care, students with attendance issues, students experiencing social skills and emotional regulation challenges, and working with students and families to link them with Placer County resources like housing, food scarcity, and mental health. Student will learn about our systems of support that include MTSS, PBIS, IEP, 504, SSP process, and then the legal school mandates of IDEA, FAPE, and FERPA.
Students placed in RCSD need to be open to jumping right in to their school sites. They need to be open to dealing with the needs of children, teens, families, and be open to responding via multiple modes of communication to support those students (email, text, phone calls, classroom observations, meetings). School settings can be chaotic and unpredictable even when classrooms and teachers are taught behavior management and how to structure transitions for children throughout the day. MSW interns need to be flexible, have a willingness to ask questions, ask for help, and always reach out to the task supervisor and field instructor when an ethical/legal issue needs to be consulted through.