National Catholic School of Social Service
Office of Field Education

Shahan Hall

Washington, DC  20064

Phone 202-319-5457

  Fax 202-319-5640

Thank you for your interest in affiliating as a field instructor or field agency with the National Catholic School of Social Service. For an overview on Field Education at NCSSS, please follow this link. Our general Field Education web page is at: http://ncsss.cua.edu/degree_field/field. To view our Field Manual, follow this link. To read about requirements for becoming a field site, follow this link.

As part of the affiliation process, we'll need the documents below completed and returned to the Office of Field Education (CUA, NCSSS Office of Field Education, Shahan Hall, Washington, D.C. 20064). You can open the documents in Microsoft Word below, save them to your hard drive or disk, and then complete the documents on your computer. If you prefer to have copies mailed to you, please let us know.

1.  Agency Information Form or you may complete this information on-line (let us know if you have trouble using this on-line form)

2.  Field Instructor Profile Form (save as Word document and complete) or complete using our on-line survey

3.  Affiliation Agreement

Before we can proceed, we must, at a minimum, receive your completed Agency Information Form or the on-line form. Please complete and return that form (and, when possible, the Field Instructor Profile along with a resume) as soon as you can. We must receive the Statement of Agreement before a student intern begins placement, but I understand that it may take some time for the appropriate agency official to review and sign it.

Please give me a call once you have sent us the Agency Information Form, so that we can talk further about your agency becoming affiliated with us.

Benefits of being a field instructor:

• Access to Mullen Library
• Invitation to Continuing Education programs at NCSSS at no charge, or reduced charge; free CEUs offered
• Professional growth!
• Access to NCSSS faculty

I look forward to our working together to educate our Southern Maryland students as they become social work professionals. If you have any questions, feel free to call me at 202-319-5457.

Sincerely,

Loretta Vitale Saks, MSW, LCSW-C                                        

Director of Field Education                                          

saks@cua.edu