Field placements outside the region

In accordance with the School of Social Work’s mission, the Master’s program is designed to provide professional training focused on the analysis of social inequalities, minority contexts, and the needs and characteristics of Ontario’s francophone population. The Intervention field placement (Stage d’intervention en travail social, TSO 5601) and the Research-intervention field placement (Stage de recherché-intervention, TSO 6601 and 6801) take place in organizations located in the Ottawa, Prescott-Russell, Stormont-Dundas and Glengarry or Outaouais regions. However, to meet the objectives and needs of certain students, it is also possible, in exceptional situations, to arrange field placements elsewhere in Ontario, Quebec or other Canadian provinces.

A specific policy applies to international placement; please refer to the international Placements Policy for distinct rules. 

Procedure:

  • The process of finding a placement must be done with the approval of the placement Coordinator;
  • The School of Social Work will make reasonable efforts to place a student in a field placement that meets the academic and supervisory requirements of the program while accommodating, if applicable, the student’s documented special needs. 

Criteria : 

  • Placements sites must have the capacity for social work supervision and meet the placement's pedagogical objectives;
  • Students eligible for field placements with the CNFS uOttawa component (placements in Francophone minority settings) will be given priority over other external placements;
  • Students who are eligible for this policy must take part in seminars on Integrating field placement experiences. This mandatory course is offered in classroom setting at the University of Ottawa. Depending on the availability of multimedia classrooms, students may take the seminar remotely if the field placement location is two hundred and fifty kilometers (250) or more away. However, these students will have to travel to Ottawa for certain seminars, at the request of the placement coordinators, professors or major research paper director. 

Discussion document presented to the Practical Training Committee on June 21, 2010.

Unanimously adopted at the School of Social Work Assemble on September 21, 2010.