School of Social Work

SOWK 488 BSW FIELD PLACEMENT

FINAL EVALUATION OF STUDENT

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PROGRAM (check one):
Emily Jackson
Student:
CO Division of Criminal Justice/CCASA
Agency:
MSW/BSW Field Instructor:

Concurrent (two-semester placement)

Semester / Year:

Michelle Wolff MEd

Fall 2014

Terri Livermore
On-site Supervisor:
Michael Malloy
Field Liaison:

12/09/2014
Final evaluation completed

Block (one-semester placement)

Recommended Grade:

Satisfactory

Unsatisfactory

Date

Signatures:

Michelle Wolff

Digitally signed by Michelle Wolff

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Date: 2014.12.04 15:20:13 -07'00'

12/09/2014

MSW/BSW Field Instructor

Date

On-site Supervisor (if applicable)

Terri Livermore
Student

Date

Digitally signed by Terri Livermore

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email=terri.livermore@state.co.us, c=US
Date: 2014.12.04 15:32:33 -07'00'

Field Liaison

I pledge that I have completed the required total hours for my field placement.
Student

Date

Date
12/09/2014
Date

Competency 2.1.1 Identify as a professional social worker and conduct oneself accordingly.
Lacking

Foundation Level Practice Behaviors

Inadequate

Competent

Superior

Mastered

Not
Observed

NA

a. Advocates for client access to services.

b. Practices personal reflection and self-correction to assure continual
professional development.

c. Attends to professional roles and boundaries.

d. Demonstrates professional demeanor in behavior, appearance and
communication.

e. Engages in opportunities that set the stage for career-long learning.

f.

Engages in supervision and consultation to enhance professional

performance.

Competency 2.1.1 Overall Rating

Please provide one or two examples that support your overall rating of the
student in this competency area:

Student comments:

Emily has displayed a professional demeanor and eagerness to learn as evidenced

by frequently initiating learning opportunities without prompting. She volunteered to
create a database for tracking information, gathered research regarding
anonymous reporting systems and reported to committees regarding her findings
as well as answer questions and provide additional information as requested.

Competency 2.1.2 Apply social work ethical principles to guide professional practice.
Lacking

Foundation Level Practice Behaviors

Inadequate

Competent

Superior

Mastered

Not
Observed

NA

a. Recognizes and manages personal values in a way that allows

professional values to guide practice.

b. Makes ethical decisions by applying the NASW code of ethics.

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c. Applies strategies of ethical reasoning to arrive at principled decisions.

d. Tolerates ambiguity in resolving ethical conflicts.
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Competency 2.1.2 Overall Rating

Please provide one or two examples that support your overall rating of the
student in this competency area:

Student comments:

Emily asks questions regarding how decisions impact others demonstrating an

awareness of systems and their functions as well as how they interrelate. While not
directly observed dealing with an ethical issue she displays the critical thinking skills
and natural curiosity necessary to evaluate ramifications of decision making.

Competency 2.1.3 Apply critical thinking to inform and communicate professional judgments.
Lacking

Foundation Level Practice Behaviors

Inadequate

Competent

Superior

Mastered

Not
Observed

NA

a. Distinguishes, appraises, and integrates multiple sources of knowledge,

including research-based knowledge and practice wisdom.

b. Critically analyzes models of assessment, prevention, intervention, and

evaluation.

c. Demonstrates effective communication in working with individuals,

families, groups, organizations, communities and colleagues:
Written
Oral
Electronic

Foundation 2.1.3 Overall Rating

Please provide one or two examples that support your overall rating of the
student in this competency area:
Emily excels in this area. As mentioned above she is able to analyze issues and
activities from a systems perspective, follow directives and take action efficiently
and diligently. Emily conducted herself professionally in meetings and reported her
research findings to the group efficiently and effectively. At all times Emily
conducted herself in a manner expected of a professional both formal and informal
settings.

Student comments:

Competency 2.1.4 Engage diversity and difference in practice.

Lacking

Foundation Level Practice Behaviors

Inadequate

Competent

Superior

Mastered

Not
Observed

NA

a. Recognizes the extent to which a cultures structures and values may

oppress, marginalize, alienate, or create or enhance privilege and power.

b. Demonstrates self-awareness to minimize the influence of personal

biases and values in working with people.

c. Recognizes and communicates understanding of the importance of

differences in shaping life experiences and applies this understanding in
social work practice.

d. Actively learns about culture from multiple sources, including clients,

constituents, communities and organizations to provide culturally
competent services and programs.

Competency 2.1.4 Overall Rating

Please provide one or two examples that support your overall rating of the
student in this competency area:

Student comments:

Emily availed herself of all opportunities to see different cultures and systems in
action from direct services to the legislative policy creation processes. Emily
participated directly in the crafting of proposed legislative changes and current
policy review. She assisted the office in gathering research to support these
proposals as well as to educate the committees. Emily again in this area required
little direction as she is self-motivated, highly intelligent and interested in many
aspects of the agency and State systems.
Emily can be frequently observed asking questions in order to fully analyze and
understand all the issues facing sexual assault victims in CO and all the systems
involved. Emily demonstrates open mindedness and compassion with regard to
the topics discussed and the complex issues presented.

Competency 2.1.5 Advance human rights and social and economic justice.
Lacking

Foundation Level Practice Behaviors

Inadequate

Competent

Superior

Mastered

Not
Observed

NA

a. Understands the forms and mechanisms of oppression and

discrimination.

b. Advocates for human rights and social and economic justice.

c. Engages in practices that advance social and economic justice.
Competency 2.1.5 Overall Rating
Please provide one or two examples that support your overall rating of the
student in this competency area:

Student comments:

Emily appears to understand white privilege and the complicating factors of race
and socio-economic standing with regard to access to services. She also appears
to understand the differences between rural and urban service delivery systems
and advantages / disadvantaged facing the two different areas.

Competency 2.1.6 Engage in research-informed practice and practice-informed research.

Lacking

Foundation Level Practice Behaviors

Inadequate

Competent

Superior

Mastered

Not
Observed

NA

a. Understands how practice experience informs the research process.

b. Uses research evidence to inform practice.
Competency 2.1.6 Overall Rating
Please provide one or two examples that support your overall rating of the
student in this competency area:

Student comments:

Emily was in charge of researching current best practices and comparing them to
practices in CO as well as educating the research committee regarding these
findings.She demonstrated understanding of how evidenced based practices inform
legislation and conversely how legislation can promote or inhibit practices.

Competency 2.1.7 Apply knowledge of human behavior and the social environment.
Lacking

Foundation Level Practice Behaviors

Inadequate

Competent

Superior

Mastered

Not
Observed

NA

a. Utilizes conceptual frameworks to guide the processes of assessment,

intervention and evaluation.

b. Critiques and applies knowledge to understand person and environment.

Competency 2.1.7 Overall Rating
Please provide one or two examples that support your overall rating of the
student in this competency area:

Student comments:

Emily understood that by changing payment laws and creating funding during the
last legislative sessions meant that 98 victims were served who might otherwise
have gone without assistance. She was able to extrapolate, without prompting, that
proposed changes in the laws for 2015 will further impact victims in positive ways
regarding access to services.

Competency 2.1.8 Engage in policy practice to advance social and economic well-being and to deliver effective social work services.
Lacking

Foundation Level Practice Behaviors

Inadequate

Competent

Superior

Mastered

Not
Observed

NA

NA

a. Evaluates the impact, intended and unintended, of agency and public

policies and regulations.

b. Collaborates with colleagues and clients for effective policy action.

Competency 2.1.8 Overall Rating
Please provide one or two examples that support your overall rating of the
student in this competency area:

Student comments:

I believe this has been answered in prior sections however I wold add that Emily
was required and was able to collaborate with colleagues as she has a personable
communication style that allows her to establish rapport quickly. She is not
intimated by colleagues position titles and communicates with openness and ease
in a variety of settings.

Competency 2.1.9 Respond to contexts that shape practice.

Lacking

Foundation Level Practice Behaviors

Inadequate

Competent

Superior

Mastered

Not
Observed

NA

a. Continuously recognizes, assesses and attends to the social, cultural,

economic and technological changes that impact services.

b. Provides leadership, appropriate to the student role, in promoting

sustainable changes in service delivery and practice to improve the
quality of social services.

Competency 2.1.9 Overall Rating

Please provide one or two examples that support your overall rating of the
student in this competency area:

Student comments:

I believe this section too has been answered with regard to Emily's skill and ability
to automatically assume a leadership role in her assigned duties as well as taken
on further duties on her own.

Competency 2.1.10 Engage, assess, intervene, and evaluate with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
Lacking

Foundation Level Practice Behaviors

a. Engagement

Inadequate

Competent

Superior

Mastered

Not
Observed

NA

NA

NA

Substantively and affectively prepares for action with individuals,

families, groups, organizations and communities.
Uses empathy and other interpersonal skills appropriately.
Develops a mutually agreed-upon focus of work and desired outcomes.

b. Assessment and Planning

Collects, organizes and interprets complex client data from multiple
system levels.
Assesses client strengths and limitations.
Develops mutually agreed-upon intervention goals and objectives.

Selects appropriate intervention strategies

c. Intervention

NA

NA

Initiates actions to achieve organizational goals.

Implements prevention interventions that enhance client capacities.
Helps clients resolve problems.
Negotiates, mediates, and advocates on behalf of clients.
Facilitates transitions and endings within professional relationships.

d. Evaluation
Critically analyzes, monitors and evaluates interventions.

Competency 2.1.10 Overall Rating

Competency 2.1.10 Engage, assess, intervene, and evaluate with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
Student comments:
If one considers the State systems of Forensic Compliance and services to victims
of sexual assault then Emily met and exceeded all expectations for a student
coming in from a Bachelor's level program. Her critical thinking skills and
understanding of the multiple systems and disciplines involved in the service
delivery and criminal justice systems for victims is outstanding. Her ability to
quickly grasp topics and theories she has not been exposed to before is both
refreshing and excellent.
Skills demonstrated at this macro level of service should be easily transferable to
any individual, group or community setting. Emily should be able to work
effectively at any social work setting she may choose to apply to. Emily's
performance as an intern has assured her of serious consideration should she be
inclined to apply to any current or future job openings within the agency.