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Ripples
The e-Newsletter of the Geriatric Social Work Initiative
(GSWI)
Volume 2, Issue 3
March 23, 2004
Welcome to Ripples, an e-newsletter designed
to keep interested deans and directors, faculty members,
students, practitioners and others informed about the
work of the Geriatric Social Work Initiative (GSWI).
We welcome your feedback and encourage you to contribute
any story ideas, stories, resources, news and other
content to subsequent issues of the newsletter. If you have been forwarded this email by a colleague and
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| Note to Readers: Call for Story Ideas and Feedback |
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| Celebrate Social Work Month Throughout
March |
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The National Association of Social Workers (NASW)
has designated March to be Social Work Month.
The theme of this year's Social Work Month is
"The Power of Social Work: Pass it On."
As Social Workers,
- We pass the power of our work on to the people
whom we help, giving them renewed hope.
- We pass the purpose of social work on to the
community to show how our role benefits everyone.
- We pass the passion of social work on from
one generation of social workers to the next.
To learn more about how you can pass on the power
of social work, visit NASW's Web Site at:
http://www.socialworkers.org/pressroom/swm2004/default.asp.
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| NASW to Launch Public Campaign to Change Perception
of Social Workers |
NASW will launch a public image campaign
in 2005 aimed at changing the public's perception
of social workers. Work has begun in planning and
fundraising for the campaign, which is designed
to change the way the nation views social work.
The campaign will be research-based and designed
with input from all elements of the social work
community.
"For too long, social workers have been afraid
to toot their own horn - to say, 'This is what we
do and why we're important,'" said NASW Executive
Director Elizabeth J. Clark. "It is crucial
that we get the message out about the importance
of social work, or our licensing laws will continue
to be challenged, wages will stay depressed and
social work jobs will be the first to be eliminated
when budgets are tight."
To learn about how you or your organization can
contribute to this public campaign, please visit
NASW's Web Site at: http://www.naswfoundation.org/imageCampaign/. |
| Research Digest: The Evolution of End of Life
Care |
| GSWI.org, the Web site of the GSWI, is dedicated
to promoting the latest high quality research and
making it accessible to practitioners and other
professional audiences. Each month, we "digest"
a current piece of research. In this month's digest,
Author Marilyn Luptak, PhD, LCSW, explores the history
of social work and end-of-life care in an article
published in a recent issue of Health and Social
Work. Click
here to learn more. |
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The Foundation Center is now Publishing a
Monthly E-Newsletter
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| The foundation center has recently launched its
inaugural issue of its new, monthly e-newsletter,
Health Funding Watch. This newsletter will offer
a combination of news on health funding and the
latest issues affecting the health community today,
information on requests for proposals, job listings
in the health arena, and more. To sign up for this
free newsletter, click
here. |
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"Tomorrow's Professor" Listserv
Features Desktop Faculty Development
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| The "Tomorrow's Professor" listserv,
sponsored by the Stanford University Center for
Teaching and Learning, features weekly desktop faculty
development announcements and tips. The goal of
the listserv is to foster a diverse, worldwide teaching
and learning ecology. To sign up for the listserv
or to check out past announcements, visit Stanford
University's Web Site at: http://ctl.stanford.edu/Tomprof/index.shtml.
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Disability Researchers Identify Barriers to
Independent Living
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"Researchers at the Disability Statistics
Center at the University of California at San
Francisco report that about 3.3 million community-residing
adults need assistance from another person with
two or more activities of daily living (ADLs).
Of these, almost one million people need more
help than they are receiving - particularly those
who live alone.
The study, the results of which have been published
in the March issue of The Journal of Gerontology:
Social Sciences (Vol. 59B, No.2), is the first
to estimate how much additional help people need."
To learn more, click
here.
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