Community Field Resources
The Social Work Field Education Team
Professor Cherry Malone (left) is the MSW Field Director. She handles all clinical affiliation contracts, and places all 1st year MSW students in their internships. Cherry can be reached via email or phone: ccmalone@memphis.edu or 901.678-3515.
Professor Maggie Landry (middle) is the Assistant MSW Field Director. She places all 2nd year MSW students in their internships, and is considered the Field Team's "tech person". Maggie can be contacted via email or phone: malandry@memphis.edu or 901.466.6689.
Professor Danielle Seemann (right) is the BA Field Director. She places all undergraduate social work students in their internships. Danielle can be contacted via email or phone: dswatson@memphis.edu or 901.493.3676.
Potential Field Placements
Is your agency interested in hosting a social work student field placement internship? All potential field agency sites must participate in a "Prospective Agency Meeting" with the field directors before the Clinical Affiliation process can be started. At this time, we are meeting potential agencies via Microsoft Teams. This meeting typically takes anywhere from 30-45 minutes, and is meant to gather basic information on what the agency does, what population is served, how the agency plans to utilize social work student interns, onboarding requirements, etc. .
In order to get the Clinical Affiliation Agreement process started, agencies need the following items completed:
- Potential Field Agency Form (Qualtrics survey)
- Field Instructor Information Sheet (Qualtrics survey - must upload resume to this)
- Book a Prospective Agency Meeting with the Field Team (available most Fridays 9:30 AM-12 NOON Central)
Once a prospective agency meeting has taken place, and these two forms (above) are completed, the clinical affiliation agreement (CAA) can be drafted and sent to the appropriate agency contact for review and signature. Once we receive the CAA back, it gets forwarded to our Procurement team, and then finalized.
Agencies should note that students may NOT begin their internships until the CAA is finalized by UofM Procurement and sent back to the agency. Additionally, an established CAA does not guarantee student interns with your agency; the Field Team places students based on best fit. We are not able to match student interns to every agency each semester/academic year.
Field Form Hosting on Experiential Learning Cloud (formerly Tevera)
The School of Social Work utilizes Experiential Learning Cloud (formerly Tevera) for all field form hosting needs.
Current field instructors with ELC accounts, please use this link to login, here.
If you have not been invited by a field director to register for an ELC account, please DO NOT try to register for an account. Please reach out to a field director for assistance.
Training for Field Instructors
Field instructors are required to attend training each academic year as soon as possible upon vetting OR during the first few weeks of supervising a student intern. The recorded 2025-2026 academic year training can be found here. You can download the PowerPoint presentation used here.
Resources
Active Field Instructors can find forms that they need here.
Quick reference guide for AY 2025-2026. This quick reference document includes a breakdown of hours required by each program level, start/stop dates for Fall 2025 and Spring 2026 (Summer 2026 dates are TBD), and other important reference information.
Manual for completing the Field Instructor Evaluation. *Please note, this is on legal-size paper; if printing a hard copy, please select "fit to page" or "shrink to fit" before printing.
Additional manuals for Tevera are forthcoming, and will be posted to this website when available.