Fieldwork Stipends
Agency Stipends
Stipend-Supported Training Programs

Fieldwork Stipends

Stipends for students engaged in fieldwork are available through funding from several partner agencies:

Public Child Welfare
The California Social Work Education Center (CALSWEC)
Stipend Amount: $18,500
Years of Funding: 2 years
Post-degree Work Commitment: 2 years

University Consortium for Children and Families (UCCF), formerly Inter University Consortium (IUC):
Stipend Amount: $18,500.
Years of Funding: 1 Year
Post-degree work commitment: 1 year

Gerontological Social Work
Southern California Geriatric Social Work Education
Stipend Amount: $4,000 - $6,000
Years of Funding: 1 year (second year only)
Post-degree Work Commitment: none

Mental Health
The California Social Work Education Center (CALSWEC)**
Stipend Amount: $18,500
Years of Funding: 1 year (second year only)
Post-degree Work Commitment: 1 year
**Bilingual abilities are a plus for candidates.

Agency Based Stipends

Below is a partial listing of agencies that have provided stipends in the past.

• Actor's Fund
• California Hospital-Pico Union
• Children's Institute
• City of Santa Monica
• Friend's Outside
• Harbour Area Halfway House
• Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles
• Kaiser Permanente, Watts Counseling and Learning Center
• LA County DCFS, EASE-IN
• LA County DCFS, Human Services Agency-Child & Family
• LA County DCFS, IUC
• LA County DCFS, Metro North-Adoptions
• LA County DCFS, Torrance
• LA County DCFS, West LA
• LA County DCFS, Wateridge
• LA County DMH, Augustus Hawkins Family MH
• LA County DMH, Child and Adolescent
• LA County DMH, Coastal Asian
• LA County DMH, Edelman
• LA County DMH, Corrections
• New Vision Foundation
• Occupational Therapy Training Program
• Pacific Clinics
• Special Service for Groups-Older Adults
• St. John's Child and Development Center
• St. Vincent's Cardinal Manning Center
• The Children's Institute
• UCLA Counseling & Psychological Services
• VA Sepulveda
• VA West Los Angeles
• Venice Family Clinic
• Vista Del Mar
• Women Helping Women

View the Stipend-Supported Training Programs page for further information on eligibility and requirements for these programs.