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EP Program
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Philadelphia Connections Enhanced
Placement Program Student Handbook The Enhanced Placement program (EP) is a city-funded effort that started in 1999 by Philadelphia Connections (see the “What Is Philadelphia Connections?” handout). Through the EP program, Connections provides funding and other support to schools and public/community care provider agencies that collaborate in enhancing field placement or internship experiences for their students. Connections also provides additional training and educational opportunities to EP students to help to ensure that they are as well prepared as possible to work with public system consumers and their families. The EP program is also aimed at encouraging students to consider taking jobs with public/community behavioral health agencies after graduation. Since each school-provider partnership is unique, specific field placement or internship enhancements may vary from agency to agency. However, all students accepted into the EP program will receive its basic benefits in return for carrying out basic responsibilities as listed below. Additional information can be found on our website: www.philaconnect.org. q Basic Enhanced Placement Program Benefits
q Qualifying for the Enhanced Placement Program
q EP Enhancement Seminars
The EP Enhancement Seminars for 2011-2012 are primarily scheduled
for four Mondays (see specific dates listed below) during the school year at the
Wachovia Building, 123 South Broad Street. See the “Directions” page for
further details about location. Each seminar day lasts from 9am to 3:45pm.
The seminars take place on five field placement days during the school
year, providing additional Seminar Topics · Overview of the Behavioral Health System of Philadelphia · Psychoactive Medication and Social Work · Ethical Issues for Students in Community Behavioral Health Settings · What Helps and What Hurts: Consumer and Family Perspectives · Suicide Assessment and Intervention · Diagnostic Statistical Manual (DSM) Use with Children and Adolescents, and Older Adults · Dual-Diagnosis assessment and treatment
Students will be assigned to one of up to nine groups (depending on total enrollment) of EP students this year: Monday groups 1 through 8, plus a Friday group. You will be told which group you are in as soon as you are accepted to the EP program, so you will know what your seminar schedule is for the year. If you have a preference for a certain group and set of dates, please make this known to us as soon as possible. Each group will stay together for the eight seminars during the year. Groups 1 and 2 will meet on one set of four Mondays; groups 3 and 4 will meet on another set of Mondays, etc. On each Seminar day, two groups (1&2 or 3&4 or 5&6 etc.) of EP students will be meeting simultaneously in different rooms in the 123 S. Broad building. The Friday group will have one seminar in the morning and one in the afternoon. With this arrangement, we are almost always able to keep the size of each group to fifteen or under to allow for maximum discussion and interaction with seminar presenters. Below are the dates of the 2011-12 Monday and Friday Enhancement Placement Seminars
2011 EP SEMINAR SCHEDULE DATE GROUP TOPIC 9/12 am/pm 1 & 2 Suicide Assessment & Intervention 9/12 am/pm 1 & 2 Psychoactive Medications
9/19 am/pm 3 & 4 Philadelphia Behavioral Health System Overview 9/19 am/pm 3 & 4 Suicide Assessment & Intervention
9/26 am/pm 5 & 6 Philadelphia Behavioral Health System Overview 9/26 am/pm 5 & 6 Basic Psychopharmacology
10/3 am/pm 7 & 8 Philadelphia Behavioral Health System Overview 10/3 am/pm 7 & 8 Suicide Assessment & Intervention
10/17 am/pm 1 & 2 Intellectual Disabilities and Mental Illness 10/17 am/pm 1 & 2 Ethics in Social Work
10/24 am/pm 3 & 4 Ethics in Social Work 10/24 am/pm 3 & 4 Basic Psychopharmacology
10/31
am/pm 5 & 6 Suicide Assessment &
Intervention 11/7 am/pm 7& 8 Family & Consumer Perspectives 11/7 am/pm 7& 8 Ethics in Social Work
11/14 am/pm 1 & 2 Family & Consumer Perspectives 11/14 am/pm 1 & 2 Diagnostic Issues--DSM
11/28 am/pm 3 & 4 Diagnostic Issues--DSM 11/28 am/pm 3 & 4 Family & Consumer Perspectives 12/5
am/pm 5 & 6 Co-Occurring
Disorders 12/12
am/pm 7 &
8 Basic
Psychopharmacology
2012 EP SEMINAR SCHEDULE
DATE GROUP TOPIC 1/23 am/pm 1 & 2 Co-Occurring Disorders 1/23 am/pm 1 & 2 TBA
1/30 am/pm 3 & 4 Intellectual Disabilities and Mental Illness 1/30 am/pm 3 & 4 TBA
2/6 am/pm 5 & 6 Family & Consumer Perspectives 2/6 am/pm 5 & 6 Intellectual Disabilities and Mental Illness
2/13 am/pm 7 & 8 Co-Occurring Disorders 2/13 am/pm 7 & 8 TBA
2/27 am/pm 1 & 2 TBA 2/27 am/pm 1 & 2 Final Session: Assessment/Certificates/Stipend invoice
3/19 am/pm 3 & 4 Co-Occurring Disorders 3/19 am/pm 3 & 4 Final Session: Assessment/Certificates/Stipend invoice
3/26 am/pm 5 & 6 TBA 3/26 am/pm 5 & 6 Final Session: Assessment/Certificates/Stipend invoice
4/2 am/pm 7 & 8 Intellectual Disabilities and Mental Illness 4/2 am/pm 7 & 8 Final Session: Assessment/Certificates/Stipend invoice
4/9/12 ALL GROUPS Career Day & Job Fair
2011 - 2012 Friday EP Seminar Schedule
9/23/11 AM - Suicide Assessment & Intervention PM - Philadelphia Behavioral Health System Overview
10/28/11 AM - Diagnostic Issues--DSM PM - Ethics
in Social Work 12/2/11 AM - Basic Psychopharmacology PM -
Co-Occurring Disorders 1/13/12 AM - Family & Consumer Perspectives PM - TBA
1/20/12 AM - Final Session: Assessment/Certificates/Stipend invoice PM - Intellectual Disabilities and Mental Illness
3/21/10 Career Day & Job Fair
For all EP Seminar days, (if the budget allows!) lunch will be served at no charge. Look for announcement in August-September.
For complete directions to the seminar site, please see the Directions
to Connections handout, or go to our website address:
*Please Note: Ø On the first Enhanced Seminar day of each semester there will be some brief paperwork to complete regarding the EP program. Ø On each Enhanced Seminar day, there will be a brief group meeting of all the EP students at the beginning of the day in addition to the seminars. Ø EP students will be asked to fill out brief feedback questionnaires about each seminar, and there will knowledge evaluation forms to fill out before and after most seminars. These evaluations are only used by Connections to evaluate the effectiveness of the seminars. They are not related to any grades or other school/agency evaluations. q Stipends All graduate EP students will receive a basic stipend of $500.00 for the school year to cover any expenses incurred from attending the EP program, and as an incentive to join the program. Note: Fourth-year BSW students will receive a $300.00 stipend. The basic stipend will be disbursed in two payments of $250.00 (4th year BSW students receive two $150 payments).
First Semester:
Second Semester:
In order to receive the stipend, you must do the following:
The invoices take up to eight weeks to process after we receive them, so you may not get a check for up to eight weeks after your invoice arrives at Connections—plan accordingly in budgeting this money. q Additional EP Presentations During the course of the school year, other educational and training opportunities will be made available to EP students at no cost. All of these are negotiated with participating schools and agencies. If you have any suggestions about topics, please let your school and placement contacts know about them. A schedule of these presentations will be made available to EP students as soon they are arranged. We ask sponsoring organizations and schools to schedule these events for Monday or Friday whenever possible.
q Enhanced Placement Program Evaluation Enhanced Placement students are asked to participate in ongoing evaluation of the EP program. This will include filling out feedback and assessment forms at presentations, filling out feedback and assessment forms concerning your experience with the EP program and Connections, joining in feedback discussions when the EP student group meets at Enhanced Seminar sessions, and participating in an exit interview and written evaluation of the program at the end of the school year. q Problems
Please contact the Administrator of Connections (see contact information
below) concerning problems about any part of the EP program, except for
scheduling problems. If, after you are accepted to the EP program, you think you
may have a problem attending one of the required EP activities, treat it like
any other scheduling problem in your field placement: talk to your field
supervisor if there is a conflict with your placement schedule or your school
placement liaison or professor if there is a conflict with a school activity or
class. In all cases when you cannot attend a required EP activity due to illness or other emergencies, you will be expected to call the Connections office in advance and respond to any return calls from Connections staff. Failure to do so will jeopardize your EP status and you may be dropped from the program and your stipend revoked. F NOTE! You must have a working email address where you can check frequently for announcements and updates on the EP program. If you do not have a computer and email, you must find someone who does and who will accept emails we send you and give them to you in a timely fashion. Due to the number of students, faculty, and staff involved in the program, getting announcements out to you by phone or fax will not be reliable. If you have no way of obtaining a reliable email address that you can check at least twice a week, please contact the Administrator. q Contact Information Questions? Please contact: Luciane Green,
Office Manager, -or-
Susan Lonker, EP Administrator
This page was updated on: September 02, 2011 |