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“You Do What at Your Internship?” Formulating a MSW Internship Program at Your Animal Hospital: The Dos & the Don’ts

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1 CE Hour
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Description

Have you ever thought about creating a social work internship at your animal hospital, but don’t know where to start?  Or maybe you’re already running one, and you’re looking for more ways to cultivate a meaningful experience for your students?  In this session we’ll start from the basic 101s on how to build a program to how to maintain a well-oiled veterinary social work internship program! This will in turn not only aid your hospitals with additional social work support, but will also help educate the future generations of social workers. 

Target Audience
  • Counselors
  • Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Psychologists
  • Social Workers
  • Substance Use Disorder Professionals
Educational Goal

The educational goal of this workshop is to help current veterinary social workers with established veterinary social work programs create an MSW internship program.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • List 2 ways in which the MSW Intern role can benefit hospital clients and staff.

  • List 2 ways in which the MSW Intern role can benefit their own social work skills as a supervisor.

  • Summarize what is expected of the student intern and the field supervisor.

  • Describe what to do if there is a concern from a student or supervisor.

References
  • Hoy-Gerlach, J., Nielsen, J., Ricker, J., St. Arnaud, A. (2022). Veterinary Social Work Internships in Veterinary Settings. In: Loue, S., Linden, P. (eds) The Comprehensive Guide to Interdisciplinary Veterinary Social Work. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10330-8_13

  • Brackenridge, LCSW, BCD, S. B., McPherson, LBSW, B., & Simmons School of Social Work. (2016). Developing a successful social work practicum in a private veterinary specialty hospital. The Field Educator: Practice Digest, 6.1. https://fieldeducator.simmons.edu/article/developing-a-successful-social-work-practicum-in-a-private-veterinary-specialty-hospital/

  • NASW Standards for Social Work practice in health care settings. (n.d.). https://www.socialworkers.org/Practice/NASW-Practice-Standards-Guidelines/NASW-Standards-for-Social-Work-Practice-in-Health-Care-Settings

  • Council on Social Work Education, Commission on Accreditation, & Commission on Educational Policy. (2022). Educational policy and accreditation standards for Baccalaureate and Master’s social work programs. https://www.cswe.org/getmedia/bb5d8afe-7680-42dc-a332-a6e6103f4998/2022-EPAS.pdf

General
Counselors

TPN.health has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7267. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. TPN.health is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Course meets the qualifications for hours of continuing education credit for LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LPCCs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0220.

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists

Course meets the qualifications for hours of continuing education credit for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0097.

TPN.health is a CAMFT-approved continuing education provider, provider # 1000101.

Psychologists

TPN.health is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for psychologists #MHC-0220.

Social Workers

TPN.health, #1766, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 03/31/2022 – 03/31/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 1 continuing education credits.

Course meets the qualifications for hours of continuing education credit for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LCSWs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0654.

Substance Use Disorder Professionals

This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programming. Counselor Skill Group: Legal, Ethical and Professional Development.

CE Policy
This course is fiscally sponsored by International Association of Veterinary Social Work . There may be potential biases or conflicts of interest inherent to this relationship, and it must be disclosed to participants. These conflicts of interest have no bearing on the course content and have been resolved.
Taylor St. Onge, MSW, APSW

Taylor always knew she wanted to work in a helping profession, but wasn’t always quite sure what that would look like. Growing up in a house full of nurses, Taylor knew early on that path wasn’t for her. In college, Taylor discovered the holistic field of social work, and knew that was where her passion could find its home.

 

Taylor attended the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee for her Bachelor’s degree in Social Work and completed her internship at Seasons Hospice working to provide comfort and support to hospice patients and their families. Following this, Taylor finished her Master’s degree in Social Work, along with a Certificate in Trauma-Informed Care,  also from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She completed a year long veterinary social work internship with Lakeshore Veterinary Specialists, and was hired on as a full-time veterinary social worker upon her graduation.

 

Taylor has extensive experience dealing with grief and loss, quality of life discussions, emotionally charged situations, and associate wellness. Taylor joined Premier Veterinary Group in April of 2023, where she has since created their Veterinary Social Work program, which includes a successful Veterinary Social Work Student Internship program. She currently lives in Milwaukee with her two cats, Basilton and Butters, and her dog, Bertie.

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