RALPH BRANCH III

Social Work Core Competencies

Identify as a professional social worker and conduct oneself accordingly.

Internship at Benjamin Franklin Middle School Working as a Social Work Assistant Shadowing Sherry Scott on a daily basis Mentoring students, attending meetings, conducting social histories etc. Receiving the proper feedback from supervisor

Apply social work ethical principles to guide professional practice.

Know my biases when working at BFMS

Refer back to the NASW Code of Ethics

Continue to ask questions in order to allow myself to learn

ethical reasonings in all situations.

Apply critical thinking to inform and communicate professional judgments.

Educate myself daily when interning at BFMS

Social Histories, Parent meetings, Mentor meetings, daily

communication with staff at BFMS

Engage diversity and difference in practice.

Recognize the strengths and weaknesses of students I

work with, and affectively advocate for them.

How can I help you succeed? How can the school help you succeed? How can your parents/guardians help you succeed?

Learn to eliminate personal biases

Being relatable, accepting of difference While I am interning at BFMS, I will be a learner and will

view my co-workers as informants.

Advance human rights and social and economic justice.

Understand what the students at BFMS are being

oppressed by and advocate.

Social Skills Transportation Tutoring

What is in the best interest of the students? socially and economically

Engage in research informed practice and practice informed research.

(In progress)

Apply knowledge of human behavior and the social environment

Why?

Why do students do what they do at school?

Assess, Intervene, Evaluate = school programs

Engage in policy practice to advance social and economic well being and to deliver effective social work services.
Creating different programs to help students succeed,

WIN program. Do all policies meet the needs of students?

Truancy Conduct Academics

Respond to contexts that shape practice

(in progress)

Engage, assess, intervene, and evaluate with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
Learning Contract- develop a mutually agreed on focus of

work and desired outcomes with my supervisor. Students- Incentive plans, progress reports and weekly meetings and SMART Goal sheets. Social History Meetings FAPT Meetings CART Meetings