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CSWE Gero-Ed Center
National Center for Gerontological Social Work Education

www.Gero-EdCenter.org

Social workers play critical roles in a wide range of settings that serve older adults and their families, yet they rarely have the opportunity to acquire the knowledge and skills for effectively enhancing elders' health and well-being. The Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) Gero-Ed Center promotes aging competencies and expertise at the baccalaureate and master's levels in order to prepare all social work students to work effectively with older adults and their families.

The CSWE Gero-Ed Center, funded by the John A. Hartford Foundation, is part of an exciting initiative to "gerontologize" accredited social work programs throughout the United States. "Gerontologizing" these programs includes embedding gerontological competencies into the foundation curriculum and the overall organizational structure of social work programs.

The CSWE Gero-Ed Center prepares faculty and student leaders with the knowledge and skills to enhance the health and well-being of older adults and their families through:

  • Curriculum Development Institutes (CDI) Program
  • BSW Experiential Learning (BEL) Program
  • The Gero-Ed Track at the CSWE Annual Program Meeting (APM)
  • eLearning
  • Specialized Gero Content Program
  • Resources on the Center's Web site
  • Research and advocacy of gerontological educational policy
  • A textbook project to infuse gerontology into foundation social work texts
  • Translation of research into implications for gerontological social work education
  • Partnering with major professional associations related to public policy that impacts social work education
  • Gero Student Recruitment
  • The Masters Advanced Curriculum (MAC) Project

Drs. Julia Watkins, Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) Executive Director, and Nancy Hooyman, Hooyman Endowed Professor in Gerontology at the University of Washington, School of Social Work, are Co-Principal Investigators for the CSWE Gero-Ed Center, which is funded by the John A. Hartford Foundation.

For more information on the CSWE Gero-Ed Center, please visit our Web site www.Gero-EdCenter.org.

 

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July 1, 2008



Sponsored by The John A. Hartford Foundation