Address: PO Box 900, Wales, WI 53183

Telephone Number: 262-646-3341

Website: www.wi-doc.com/

Contact Person(s) for Field Placement: Paul Ninneman (ext. 484)

Services Provided:

  • Opportunity to work with adjudicated delinquent boys
  • Carry a small caseload
  • Attend planning conferences, court, team meetings, staffings, and possibly shadowing a parole officer

Summary of Expected Responsibilities and Learning Outcomes of Student Interns:

Your placement at EAS will provide you with:

  1. An overview of the Juvenile Justice System
  2. An orientation to the structure of the Division of Juvenile Corrections and Ethan Allen School
  3. An orientation to the Office of Juvenile Offender Review
  4. An overview and exposure to programming at EAS
  5. An exposure to and opportunity to participate in the role of social worker at EAS
  6. An overview of post-EAS programming
  7. An opportunity to practice and develop your social work skills

You will be expected to:

  1. Put in the number of placement hours required. Within this requirement you will be expected to satisfactorily complete items 2 through 10 as listed below:
  2. Observe:
    - interviews
    - cottage/unit functioning
    - school classes
    - reviews conducted by the Office of Juvenile Offender Review
    - Juvenile Court
    - Meet with certain EAS personnel within one month of placement (Chief Psychologist, Speech Therapist, Chaplaincy, Serious Sex Offender Program, Information Processing Center, Institution Hearing Officer, Disciplinary Review Committee, Checks or Suicide Watch Committee, Juvenile Parole Officer)
  3. Have caseload responsibilities for 5-8 cases over the course of your placement which includes:
    - Admissions interview of new offenders
    - Writing a Reception Center Admissions Report
    - Establishing and writing a case plan (Treatment Goals and Objectives)
    - Referrals to other institution programs if necessary
    - Provision of one hour of formal counseling to each assigned offender per week
    - Co-facilitation of groups if available
    - Attendance and participation in offender's M-Teams
    - Attendance at offender's court hearings (will not testify)
    - Attendance and participation in Team Meetings
    - Family contacts
    - Entries into offender's Social Worker Chronological Logs
    - Writing Program Treatment Reviews and other reports as necessary
  4. Tour 3 to 4 community agencies which serve juvenile offenders during the course of the placement
  5. Attend monthly program meetings
  6. Participate in in-house training as available
  7. Keep a daily log which includes time, activities, as well as reactions, feelings, questions, etc.
  8. Meet with field instructor one hour per week and attend monthly meeting with Social Worker Intern Program Supervisor once per month
  9. You are expected to behave in a PROFESSIONAL MANNER AT ALL TIMES
  10. Grading:
    - Recommended grades will be based on initiative, interest in learning, quality and quantity of work