CHILD WELFARE SPECIALIZATION
APPROVED FIELD PLACEMENTS
Note: To complete the Child Welfare Specialization Program, students must complete one field
placement in a private agency while the other field placement is performed in a public agency.
Stipend students perform their public placement at a Child Welfare Education Unit near Phoenix,
or Tucson. Other specialization students are also welcome to use these training units as a public
field placement. To complete a field placement not listed here, follow the directions under the
policy governing the approval of Child Welfare Specialization Field Placements located at the
conclusion of this list.
*The field office is always adding and subtracting possible placements so please refer to the IPT
system to confirm that the agency on this list is still actively partnering with the ASU School of
Social Work Field Office.
Phoenix Area Placements
Agency
Against Abuse (Casa Grande)
Aid to Adoption of Special Kids
(AASK)
A New Leaf
Arizona Agri-Business and Equine
Center—Alternitive High School (0 - 21
and Families)
Arizona Baptist Children’s Services
Arizona Children=s Association (ACA)
Arizonans for Children INC
ASU Preparatory Academy School
Aurora Behavioral Health
Avondale Elementary School District
Balsz Elementary School
Banner Desert Children’s Hospital –
Cardon Medical Center
Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Central AZ
Boys and Girls Club of Arizona
Casey Family Program
Catholic Charities Community Services
Catholic Charities—My Sister’s Place
Catholic Health Care West
Chandler Unified School District
Chicanos Por La Causa
Auspice
Comments
Private
Todos Los Ninos, Birthparent, Foster
Care, Adoption
Private
Private
Family Builders, Family
Preservation, Counseling
Public
Private
Private
Private
Private
private foster care services, research
Child & Family Resources Inc.
Private
foster care, sick child program, day
care References
Child Crisis Center – East Valley Inc.
Childhelp Children=s Center of Arizona
Children=s Action Alliance
City of Phoenix Early Head Start
City of Phoenix Human Services Youth
Opportunity Unit
City of Tempe—Human Services
Prevention and Youth Services
Crisis Nursery
DES/ Division of Developmental
Disabilities (DDD)
DES/ CPS Child Welfare Training Unit
Public
Private
Private
child advocacy
Private
Stipend available
Public
stipend students must do their public
placement in one of these training
units
DES/Division of Developmental
Disabilities (DDD)
Devereux
Family Promise of Greater Phoenix
(Scottsdale)
The Family School
Family Service Agency
Florence Crittenton Services
Fort McDowell Indian Community
Social Services
Fort McDowell/ Yavapai Nation
(WASSAJA Family Services)
Foundation for Blind Children
Gila River Indian Community Human
Services Department
Gila River Youth Home
Public
Gilbert Unified School District
Glendale Elementary School District
Guthrie Main Stream Services
International Rescue Committee
Jewish Family & Children Services
Kyrene School District
La Frontera Arizona – Empact SPC
Tempe
LDS Social Services
Maricopa County Juvenile Court
Maricopa County Dept of Public Health
Public
Public
Private
Private
Public/Private
Private
Residential Treatment/ Behavioral
Health Services
Stipend -Pay for books?
Private
Private
Public
Public
LDS students only
Parent support Ctr & Pregnancy
Connection
Maricopa County Juvenile Probation
Maricopa County Superior Court
Maricopa Medical Center
Public
Public
Public
Maricopa Integrated Health Systems
Maricopa Unified School District—
Maricopa High School
Maryvale Preparatory Academy
Native American Connections- Guiding
Star Recreation
New Pathways for Youth (Downtown)
New Song Center for Grieving Children
and Those that Love Them
Oasis Behavioral Health
Ocotillo Elementary School (?)
Osborn School District
Paradise Valley School District
Pendergast School District
Phoenix Children’s Hospital
Phoenix Day School for the Deaf
Phoenix Elementary School District
Phoenix Unified School District
Phoenix Union High School District
Red Mountain Behavioral Health
Services
Salt River/Pima-Maricopa Indian
Community
Salvation Army
Save the Family Foundation of Arizona
Scottsdale Unified School District
Sojourner Center
Southwest Human Development
Southwest Key Program
Teen Lifeline
Tempe Union High School District
Terros
Tolleson Elementary School District
Pediatrics or Neonatal Intensive Care
Unit
Family Learning Center and
Pediatrics
Public
Public
Public
Private/Public
Private
Private
Homeless
Private
Private
Public
Private
Public
Tumbleweed
Private
Valle De Sol
Washington School District
Private
Public
Shelter for runaways, Independent
Living Services
Youth Development Institute
Youth Evaluation and Treatment Center
Zarephath Prevention Services
Private
Private
residential treatment
Life Skills, respite
(Revised: 3/2016)
Tucson Field Placements
Agency
Arizona Children’s Home
ASU Child Welfare Training Unit –
Tucson
AZ Dept. of Juvenile Corrections
Brewster Center
Casa De Los Ninos
Casey Family Program
Catholic Social Services
Child and Family Resources
Cholla High School
CODAC Behavioral Health
Crisis Pregnancy Center
DES—Community Services
Administration
DES/CPS Ongoing
DES/CPS
Devereux-Hacienda
El Rio Neighborhood Center
Esperanza Family Center
Family Counseling Agency
Jewish Family & Children’s Service
La Frontera Center- Main
Las Familias
Marana Unified School District
Nuestra Comunidad,
One to One Family Counseling
Our Town Family
PACT – Coranado, Providence
Auspice
Private
Public
Pascua Yucci Tribe
Palo Verde Hospital
Pima Co. Juvenile Court
Pio DeSemone
Planned Parenthood
Pueblo High School
Public
Private
Public
Private
Private
Private
Comments
Public
Private
Private
Private
Private
Private
Public
Private
Private
Public
Public
Public
Private
Private
Private
Private
Private
Private
Private
Public
Private
Private
Private
Child case management &
therapy
Sierra Tucson
Southern AZ Children’s Services
Sunnyside Unified School District
Superior Court, Cochise County
Tu Nidito Children’s Hospital
Tucson Medical Center
Tucson Shalom House
Tucson Urban League
Utterbac Wellness Center
Private
Private
Public
Public
Private
Private
Private
Private
Public
POLICY FOR APPROVAL OF FIELD PLACEMENTS
IN THE CHILD WELFARE SPECIALIZATION
1. The general guidelines that are applicable to all MSW students as outlined by the Field
Education Office apply to Specialization students.
2. An approved placement is one in which the student's client base consists primarily of children
and their families.
3. Students in the Specialization must have one placement experience in a private setting and
one in a public setting. A public placement is one which is administered by a governmental
agency or which receives the majority of its funding from public sources (municipal, state, or
federal) .In rare special circumstances, a waiver of the public/private requirement may be granted
with the PRIOR approval of Dr. Christina Risley-Curtiss, Co-Director of the Child Welfare
Training Project. It is ultimately the student's responsibility to ensure that he or she fulfills the
public/private requirement.
4. Stipend students must fulfill their public placement requirement by working in one of the
three ASU Child Welfare Training Units.
5. In general, a school placement is considered a public setting.
6. If placed in a counseling agency, the student should primarily (at least 80%) be serving
children and their families, not adult individuals. A similar rule governs hospital-based
placements.
7. PAC students in the Child Welfare Specialization arrange their second-year field placements
through the PAC Committee. The placement must have a child welfare focus. The public/private
requirement applies for PAC students also.
8. The student must be supervised by an ASU approved MSW supervisor.
9. Work variances must be approved by the Field Office and Dr. Christina Risley-Curtiss.
10. Summer Block students will need a Curriculum Variance for the two semesters preceding
their summer block. (This means that the student will not take field the academic year before the
summer block.) It is the student's responsibility to notify the Field Office and request a
Curriculum Variance.
(Revised 10/10)