Field Education
Field Education is often identified by graduates of social work programs as the most important and memorable element of their educational experience. The Council on Social Work Education states that field education is the signature pedagogy in social work education. Because of the importance of field learning, field practice is required as a key component of the curriculum. Field and Task Supervisors are valued for their teaching, supervision, and modeling of professionalism in social work to field education students.
Steps to securing a field placement:
1. Submit the Field Application and your resume to the Field Education office.
2. The Field Education office will review your application and contact you one quarter before you begin your field placement.
- Schedule an informal interview with the Field Education Director or satellite office Field Coordinator to discuss your interests and the agencies available for possible field placement opportunities.
3. Have a formal interview with potential field placement agency.
- Prior to an interview, you will send a resume and cover letter to the placement contact provided to you by the Field Education Office.
- Once you are accepted to the position, inform the Field Education office in order to obtain final paperwork to finalize your field placement.
BSW Students
- Must complete 400 hours of field education.
- Field education may be completed over a full academic year, in two quarters, or in one quarter through a block placement.
- Complete one hour of supervision each week by a BSW or MSW post two years’ experience.
MSW Students
- Advanced Standing students must complete a minimum of 600 hours and begin their field placements during fall term.
- Regular Standing students must complete a minimum of 900 hours and begin their field placements during winter term of their first year.
- Complete one hour of supervision each week by an MSW post two years’ experience.
Field education placement locations
The Field Education Office works hard to find you a placement in your community. Listed below are some locations that students have been placed; however, placements fluctuate based on need. A placement in one of these agencies or organizations is not guaranteed. Always work with the Field Education Director to establish an approved field placement. Your current place of employment could be a field placement option.
International placements may also be available, and we work with Student Missions to approve international field placements.
Analizeth Pesqueira, M.S.W
Field Education Director
Associate Professor of Social Work and Sociology
(509) 527-2273
Clarkston
- Dragonfly Counseling
Dayton
- Columbia County Health Systems
Ephrata
- Grant County Youth Services Center
Grandview
- Aging and Long-term Care
Kahlotus
- Kahlotus School District
Moses Lake
- Renew Grant Behavioral Health and Wellness
Prosser
- Prosser School District
Spokane
- Volunteers of America
Sunnyside
- Sunnyside Health Care Center
Tri-Cities (Kennewick, Pasco, Richland)
- Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Yakima
- Community in Schools
- Comprehensive Healthcare
- Discovery Behavior Solutions
- Grace Clinic
- Lourdes Counseling Center
- Lourdes Hospital
- Lutheran Community Services
- Merit Resource Services
- Safe Harbor's My Friend's Place
- Service Alternatives
- Washington Monitoring Behavioral Health
- YMCA
Toppenish
- Awtni Shixwapama Yakama Nation Behavioral Health Services
Walla Walla/College Place
- Anchor Point Counseling
- Blue Mountain Health Cooperative
- Blue Mountain Heart to Heart
- Children's Home Society/Akin
- Christian Aid Center
- College Place Public Schools
- Community In Schools
- Comprehensive Healthcare
- Department of Children, Youth, and Families
- Department of Corrections
- Family Medical Center
- The Health Center
- Trilogy Recovery Community
- Veteran's Administration
- Walla Walla Community College
- Walla Walla Community Hospice
- Walla Walla Immigrant Rights Coalition
- Walla Walla Public Schools
- Walla Walla University-Student Success Center
- Walla Walla University - Health and Wellness
- Washington State Penitentiary
- WWU Counseling and Testing Center
Yakima
- Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Yakima
- Comprehensive Health Care
- Triumph Treatment Center
Dear Partner Agencies,
Thank you for opening your doors, giving of your time, leading by example, and supporting WWU social work students in such a way.
We couldn't do this work without you.
Boardman
- Community Counseling Solutions
Hermiston
- Community Counseling Solutions
La Grande
- Center for Human Development
Milton-Freewater
- Milton-Freewater School District
Pendleton
- Community Counseling Solutions
- Eastern Oregon Center for Independent Living
- Yellow Hawk Tribal Health Center
Dear Partner Agencies,
Thank you for opening your doors, giving of your time, leading by example, and supporting WWU social work students in such a way.
We couldn't do this work without you.
Coeur d'Alene
- Idaho Department of Health and Welfare
Dear Partner Agencies,
Thank you for opening your doors, giving of your time, leading by example, and supporting WWU social work students in such a way.
We couldn't do this work without you.
Monica VonLangen, MSW, LCSW
Billings Field Education Coordinator
Assistant Professor of Social Work and Sociology
Billings
- Alternatives
- Analeigh Heals Therapy Group
- AWARE
- Beautiful Directions Counseling Services
- Billings Clinic
- Billings Counseling Connection
- Catholic Social Services of Montana
- Consumer Direct Network Care Network Full Circle
- Dragonfly Counseling
- Family Support Network
- Frontier Psychiatry
- HER Campaign
- Montana Department of Health & Human Services
- New Day
- Northern Lights Family Justice Center
- Office of the Public defender
- Passage
- Rimrock Foundation
- Riverstone Health
- Safe Harbor Therapeutic Service
- Sentinel Mental Health
- South Central Treatment Associates
- The Family Tree Center
- The Mental Health Center
- Visionary Counseling
- Walla Walla university Billings Mental Health Clinic
- Yellowstone Academy
- Yellowstone Boys & Girls Ranch
- Yellowstone County Youth Service Center
Big Timber
- Pioneer Medical Center
Bozeman
- Acces Counseling
- Advanced Counseling of Bozeman (Main Office) with locations also in Billings, Missoula, Lewiston, & Great Falls
- Bozeman Health Deaconess Regional Medical Center
- Bozeman Help Center
- Big Sky Healing
- Haven
- Little Bear Counseling
- The Praxis Group
- The Sacred Portion Children's Outreach
- Wellness In Action
Crow Agency
- Crow/Northern Cheyenne Hospital
Helena
- Intermountain Children's Service
Livingston
- Community Health Partners/ One Health (with locations also in Belgrade, Bozeman, & West Yellowstone)
- L'esprit
- Livingstone Health Care
Miles City
- Eastern Montana Community Mental Health Center
Missoula
- Cedar Creek Integrated Health (with locations also in Bozeman, Kalispell, Ronan, & Willow's Haven)
- Western Montana Mental Health Center
Red Lodge
- Beartooth Billings Clinic
- Red Lodge Mental Health Center
Wolf Point
- Red Bird Woman Center
Dear Partner Agencies,
Thank you for opening your doors, giving of your time, leading by example, and supporting WWU social work students in such a way.
We couldn't do this work without you.
Rapid City
- Behavior Management Systems
Dear Partner Agencies,
Thank you for opening your doors, giving of your time, leading by example, and supporting WWU social work students in such a way.
We couldn't do this work without you.
Casper
- Central Wyoming Counseling Center
- Crossroads Counseling
- Mercer Family Resource Center
Cody
- Yellowstone Behavioral Health Center (YBHC)
Leramie
- Wyoming Early Childhood Behavioral Consultants
Sheridan
- Counseling & Play Therapy Center (with locations also in Buffalo, Gillete, & Torrington)
- Sheridan Memorial Hospital
- Sheridan VA Medical Center
- The Hub On Smith
Worland
- Cloud Peak Counseling Center
Dear Partner Agencies,
Thank you for opening your doors, giving of your time, leading by example, and supporting WWU social work students in such a way.
We couldn't do this work without you.