CalSWEC
The California Social Work Education Center (CalSWEC), the nation's largest state coalition of social work educators and practitioners, was established to improve the education and training of social workers for publicly supported social services. The USC Center on Child Welfare, in partnership with the CalSWEC Title IV-E Program and the USC School of Social Work, offers financial support equivalent to $18,500 per year for two years to qualified MSW students who commit to a public child welfare position upon graduation.

Students must be enrolled full-time in the MSW program, choose the Families and Children concentration and Public Child Welfare sub-concentration, and complete field placements in public child welfare agencies. For every year of support, applicants agree to work a year within a California public child welfare agency.

IUC
The USC Center on Child Welfare is part of the Inter-University Consortium (IUC), a collaborative training project comprising the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) and the four graduate programs of social work at the University of Southern California, University of California Los Angeles, California State University Long Beach and California State University Los Angeles.

In an effort to attract professional social workers to public child welfare, the IUC provides a one-year educational stipend of $18,500 to full-time MSW students in exchange for a commitment to work at DCFS for one year after graduation. Students must be enrolled full-time in the MSW program, choose the Families and Children concentration and Public Child Welfare sub-concentration, and complete a one-year field placement with DCFS, where they receive specialized training in public child welfare.