The School screens agencies carefully and works to develop ongoing relationships with placement settings. Agency screening involves several steps that may take months to complete. For that reason, we will have already identified most of our first year placements for the current year. With rare exceptions new agency initiated requests for interns will be considered for the following year. First year placements include case management, mental health treatment, crisis intervention services, in-patient units in county hospitals, and residential and day treatment programs.
Health services refer to social work in hospitals and other health settings.
Field placements are made in a wide range of settings including hospitals, pediatric clinics, agencies serving AIDS patients, public health departments, health maintenance organizations, developmental disability facilities and hospices. Gerontology services refer to social work for and on the behalf of the elderly. Placements for Management and Planning students are available in most types of social work agencies and also in policy, community development and planning institutions. A. Most field settings are located within a radius of approximately 45 miles of the Campus, mostly in San Francisco, the Peninsula and the East Bay. We will do our best to accommodate your needs within available resources.