Saturday, March 31, 2012: 9:50 AM-11:10 AM
Pacific B (San Francisco Marriott Marquis)
Presentation Format:
Innovative/Promising Practice Program Report
Learning Objectives:
- Recognize the need for a thoughtful field based curriculum for social work graduate students in health care based domestic violence programs that merges clinical social work skill building with a grassroots empowerment based advocacy model
- Identify disconnects between traditional clinical social work training and empowerment based advocacy and utilize strategies for bridging the two models to meet the needs of survivors of domestic violence in a health care setting
- Select from sample training curriculum, lessons learned from staff experience and student feedback, and supervisory recommendations to both guide and strengthen internship programs for social work students in health care based domestic violence programs, attending to both clinical social work skill building and empowerment based advocacy work
Graduate social work interns in healthcare based domestic violence programs face dual goals of providing empowerment based advocacy services and receiving on-the-job training in core social work skills. Through presentation of a model training curriculum and participatory exercises, attendees will gain understanding of how to address disconnects between empowerment based advocacy and social work education. Participants will gain knowledge and skills to educate social work students on domestic violence interventions understood through the lens of clinical social work practice.