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The Students with Children Experience at the Smith College School for Social Work It is difficult to generalize about what your experience might look like if you have children while you are a student at Smith College School for Social Work (SCSSW). If you have a baby it will be an entirely different experience from the one of a parent with adolescents. If you are traveling from afar it will also be quite different than if you live nearby and go home every night.
Whatever the age of your children though, you should be prepared to have fewer hours than usual to focus on them in the summer months. However, this is balanced by the rest of the year. While in your internship you will be able to spend time with your children on weekends and most evenings as if you had a job (please note, however, that many outpatient agencies do require that you work one evening a week). You will be spending time every weekend preparing for the following week, and you do have other assignments to fulfill, but it is manageable if you pace yourself. The difference is, you are not paid. (A few placements do have stipends, however.)
While the field department takes family and personal circumstances into account in assigning students to placements, students do need to be prepared to work a full 30 hours a week during standard business hours (typically 8-4 or 9-5 with perhaps one evening a week). The 30 hours of field need to be completed across either a 4 or 5 day week. Some students with children find it helpful to work 5 six-hour days in order to free them for afternoon childcare. The field department will try to accommodate this schedule if possible so make sure that you make your needs clear on your field placement application form with as much detail as possible about the kind of schedule that you hope for.
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