Stress can be directly or indirectly encountered. The focus of this study was on indirect stress, also called secondary traumatic stress. Indirect stress is often called secondary traumatic stress (STS) and is prevalently experienced by practicing social workers or other helping professionals. The compassion fatigue resilience model (CFRM) indicates that using resources such as social support, self-care, a sense of satisfaction, and detachment may increase resilience to prevent or reduce STS due to experiences from helping others. The purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to explore how social work program resources prepare undergraduate social work (SW) students for resilience to STS in field practice at three colleges in South Carolina. The researcher utilized Yin's five phrase data analysis process to analyze data within three data sources, aggregated across the three cases and presented themes to answer the research questions. SW undergraduate students were not familiar with STS as a challenge in their field practice experience. From the four concepts described by CFRM, the SW students were mostly familiar with self-care as a resource and social support; however, the other concepts were described in various experiences and perceptions. Results indicated that SW programs need to prepare undergraduate SW students by first making them familiar with STS and offer a variety of resources to increase resilience and reduce STS due to experiences in field practice. The knowledge and skills will follow the SW student into the professional arena. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]