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The following is an alphabetical list and description of practicum sites available to students at the School of Social Work.
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Tanager Place
Address: 2309 C Street, S.W., Cedar Rapids, IA 52404
Phone: 319-365-9164
Contact: Tracy Tunwall
Description:
The mission of Tanager Place (formerly called Children’s Home of Cedar Rapids) is to provide quality treatment and education programs to families and children through psychiatric treatment services, treatment foster care, sexual abuse treatment, day treatment, and home-based family and health services. Tanager Place is licensed as a psychiatric medical institution for children. Tanager Treatment Center provides: long and short-term treatment to boys and girls ages 5 through 18; Treatment Foster Care is intensive foster care for difficult to place children, aged 0 through 17; Family Centered Services provides home-based family services; Sexual Abuse Treatment is a multi-modal family-based sexual abuse treatment program for families with incestuous sexual abuse; Day Treatment Program provides high individualized educational services and family therapy.
University of Iowa Health Care (UIHC)
Center for Disabilities and Development (UI)
Address: 327 Hospital School, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242
Phone: 319-356-7404
Contact: Bob Freeman, Director
Field: Health
Description:
The mission of the department is to participate in the interdisciplinary process of evaluating, diagnosing and treating Division patients and their families. All services include being a member of an interdisciplinary team, liaison, and patient/family advocate; working with referrals, and psychosocial assessment and short-term treatment. Services include various clinics which assist Developmentally Disabled/chronically health impaired persons. There is an eight bed inpatient unit. A health care benefits specialist who assists patients and families with applying for various government programs. Short-term respite care is provided. Several staff provide assessment and ongoing treatment of parent-child relationships problems utilizing Thera Play. The patient/ family representative is a member of the department. Learning opportunities include: child development, child welfare, special education and service delivery system; specific disabilities, funding, residential and vocational programming; awareness of state and national resources; case management; working with families.
Department of Family Medicine (UIHC)
Address: 2133 Steindler Building, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 Phone: 319-335-8471
Contact: Gretchen Schmuch
Field: Health
Description:
Training program for M.D.’s who are specializing in Family Practice, and for other health professionals including pharmacists, social workers, physician assistants, nurses. Provides out and in-patient medical care to persons of all ages and backgrounds, primarily from the Iowa City/Johnson County area. Social work services to patients and families include psychosocial assessment, counseling regarding special needs and problems, referral and coordination of services, home visits, geriatric assessment clinics. Social workers also participate in patient education activities and consultation with departmental staff regarding psychosocial issues in health care.
All students enrolled for practicum at University Hospitals will be assessed a fee of $100 for a criminal background check. The fee will be charged to each student’s University bill.
Department of Social Services - University of Iowa Hospitals/Clinics
Address: 200 Hawkins Drive, General Hospital C506, Iowa City, IA 52242
Phone: 319-356-2207
Contact: Practicums are available in several areas of the UIHC. A current list of field instructors and their departments is available through Bob VanderBeek in the Office of Field Education, School of Social Work.
All students enrolled for practicum at University Hospitals will be assessed a fee of $100 for a criminal background check. The fee will be charged to each student’s University bill.
United Action for Youth
Address: 410 Iowa Avenue, P.O. Box 892, Iowa City, IA 52240
Phone: 319-358-9406 ext. 604
Contact: Janie Jeffries
Field: teens, children, families
Description:
UAY is a non-profit agency that serves adolescents and their families. UAY offers many different programs and outreach services. Practicum students have substantial choice in which programs they are involved with. Some programs offered are: individual and group adolescent counseling, family counseling, a teen parent program that includes individual and group work for the teen parents and developmental programs for their children. UAY has an arts & music based drop-in center located on the east side of downtown, outreach programs in West Liberty, working with Latino/a youth, and in the Iowa City schools.
United Way of East Central Iowa
Address: 1030 5th Ave. S.E. #100 Cedar Rapids, IA 52403
Phone: 319-398-5372 In State: 800-411-UWAY Fax: 319-398-5381
Contact: Caroline J. Stout
Contact Email: cstout@uweci.org
Contact Phone: 319-398-5372 x.28
Field: Macro social work
Description:
This practicum placement is open to both BASW and MSW students. The United Way of East Central Iowa provides undergraduate and graduate social work internship opportunities throughout the organization in fund raising, allocations and agency relations, planning and community problem solving, marketing and communications, research and strategic planning. Interns are exposed to a variety of social work modalities including community organization and planning, policy development, information and referral services, and the staffing of volunteer committees. Interaction with both public sector and voluntary sector human service organizations, as well as with the corporate sector, provides interns broad exposure to a variety of issues and opportunities for service and career.
United Way of Johnson County
Address: 1150 5th St. Suite 290, Coralville, IA 52241
Phone: 319-338-7823
Contact: Connie Benton Wolfe, Executive Director
Email: cbwolfe@unitedwayjc.org
Description:
The United Way of Johnson raises about 1.72 million dollars annually and distributes that money to 40 health and human service agencies in the Johnson County area. The experience would involve:
- 1. On-site visits to each agency;
- 2. Review of programmatic, fiscal, and administrative information submitted by each agency;
- 3. Participation in annual Joint Budget Hearings (held jointly with Johnson County Board of Supervisors, and the Cities of Coralville and Iowa City);
- 4. Development of recommendations to United Way Board on how the money raised should be distributed among the 40 agencies;
- 5. Development of recommendations for agencies regarding any programmatic or management areas that need to be improved.
This experience would be excellent for any student interested in a career in health and human service agency management.
Uptown Bill's Small Mall
Address: 401 S. Gilbert St.
Iowa City, IA 52240
Phone: (319) 339-0401
Contact: Tom Walz, Project Director
Mission Statement:
Inspired by Wild Bill's Coffeeshop in North Hall, Uptown Bill's Small Mall is a collection of shops owned and operated by persons with disabilities and volunteers. The Small Mall's mission is twofold. It works to increase the number of job opportunities for persons with disabilities and to educate the public about persons living with disabilities. The Small Mall houses Uptown Bill's Coffeeshop, Bill's BookMart, Leslie's Luxuries & Fine Furniture, The Tea Room, Bill's Special Arts Gallery & Music Services, and Mr. Ed's SuperGraphics.
Veterans Administration Medical Center (Graduate Students Only)
Address: Highway 6 West, Iowa City, IA 52246
Phone: 319-338-0581
Contact: Carol Winetroub, ext. 6596
Field: Hospital social work outreach
Description:
The VA Medical Center in Iowa City is a 121 bed active tertiary care center, teaching hospital, and research facility offering a full range of medical, surgical, neurological, and acute psychiatric services. Social Work staff provide discharge planning services, psycho/social assessments, referrals to community agencies. Social Work services are also provided to a large and varied outpatient population. The VA Medical Center serves the veteran population of eastern Iowa and western Illinois. Patients treated present with a significantly higher proportion of social problems than the general population; thus, students are presented with a variety of learning opportunities. These include: health care planning with the veteran and family; interdisciplinary team work; assessment and treatment planning; outreach and case management to homeless veterans are provided; patient and family counseling; group treatment; alcohol and substance abuse intervention and crisis intervention.
Visiting Nurse Association (VNA)
Agency web-link: http://www.vnaic.org/
Agency Address: 2953 Sierra Court, Iowa City, IA 52246
Contact: Kathy Shey, LMSW
Contact Email: sheyk@vnaic.org
Phone: 319-337-9686 ext. 127
Field of Interest: Health care, geriatrics, community resources
Waypoint Services for Women, Children and Families
Address: 318 Fifth Street S.E.
Cedar Rapids, IA 52401
Phone: 319-365-1458
Email: bruppel@waypointservices.org
Contact: Barbara Ruppel
Description:
Waypoint is a non-profit organization that provides services for the homeless, victims of domestic violence and sexual assault, and families in need of affordable child care in Linn, Benton, and surrounding counties. Waypoint is located in downtown Cedar Rapids.
West Liberty Retirement Community
Address: 1000 N. Miller, West Liberty, IA 52776
Phone: 319-627-4775
Contact: Anne Marie Trammell
Field: Aging
Description:
West Liberty Retirement Community, Inc. is a community owned not for profit continuum of care that offers a wide variety of experiences for social work students to develop their clinical skills in geriatric social work. The community consists of Simpson Memorial Home--a 65 bed nursing facility, providing skilled and intermediate care; nine assisted living apartments; and Heath Manor--24 independent apartments. The community serves approximately 100 elders and their families from West Liberty and surrounding areas, and is located approximately 15 miles east of Iowa City.
Practicum students have opportunities to develop their clinical skills, seeking to enhance each resident's physical, mental, and psychosocial well-being. Responsibilities and activities of the social service department include: (1) Involvement in the admission process--assisting residents in adjustment to facility, orienting to routines and schedules, reviewing policies and procedures, psychosocial history and assessment, mental status questionnaire and geriatric depression scale; (2) Ensuring the maintenance of resident's rights, advocacy; (3) Providing counseling and emotional support to residents and their families, also through facilitating a family support group; (4) Information and referral to community resources; (5) Care plan process--being an active member of the interdisciplinary team, performing comprehensive psychosocial assessments, facilitating and documenting care plan conferences with team and families, entering assessment data into the Minimum Data Set (MDS) assessment tool; (6) Activities--assisting activity director with occasional set up, new ideas for activities, encoring residents to attend to enhance psychosocial well-being; (7) Volunteer program--coordinating volunteer support, recruiting new volunteers, and maintaining community's visibility in West Liberty; (8) For apartment residents--assessing care needs as they change, assisting residents in adjustment to new plans of care educational programs (coping, grief, advance directives).
If you are looking for an exciting, fast-paced, flexible, and diverse learning experience with older adults and their families, then West Liberty Retirement Community is the placement for you!
Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare - Patient & Family Services
Agency web-link: http://covhealth.com/
Agency Address: 3421 West 9th, Waterloo, IA 50702 (same as before)
Contact: Stacey Smith
Phone: 319-272-5457
Field of Interest: Health, Hospital Social Work
Description of agency and practicum activities:
Our department placement is open to undergraduates only. Opportunities exist for students to practice in a variety of clinical areas including: critical care, intermediate care, medical, surgical, oncology, psychiatry, renal dialysis, maternal/child health and skilled nursing.
Women's Resource and Action Center (UI)
Address: 130 N. Madison, Iowa City, IA 52242
Phone: 319-335-1486
Contact: Monique DiCarlo
Field: Micro and Macro social work
Description:
The Center's mission is to foster women's individual empowerment and systemic solutions to all forms of oppression. The Center leads and collaborates on projects that serve UI students, staff, faculty, and the greater community. Learning opportunities include; project planning, implementation and evaluation; practicing cultural competence; facilitating support or discussion groups; implementing fundraising strategies (special events, direct mail appeals, annual campaigns, workplace giving federations, grant writing, endowment campaign); providing information and referral assistance; advocating for clients experiencing harassment other discrimination; training and supervising volunteers; implementing organizing and social change strategies; working collaboratively within a feminist (empowering) framework with staff, volunteers, and other interns; having FUN.
Youth Homes, A Division of Four Oaks, Inc. of Iowa
Address: 1916 Waterfront Drive, Iowa City, IA 52240
5400 Kirkwood Blvd. S.W., Cedar Rapids, IA 52404
Phone: 319-337-4523
Contact: Lydia Frasier
Field: Child Welfare; Mental Health; Children & Family Services;
Description:
Opportunities are available in all of the agency programs. Iowa City Division programs include Family Services, which provides in-home counseling and therapy services to children and families as well as multi-disciplined Diagnostic and Evaluations to children; The Youth Emergency Shelter, which serves homeless and runaway youth; Courtlinn House Residential Treatment Center, for emotionally disturbed girls ages 12-17; PAL Day Care Program, for ADHD and Behavioral Disordered Children ages 6-14; and The Structured Community Independent Living Program, for teens ages 16-20 who are trying to achieve self-sufficiency in the community. Experience may be gained in working with individuals, families, and groups. Students may work with children and/or families in community settings or in long-term, short-term, or day treatment residential settings.
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