Aging Initiative

What's New

• Aging Initiative University Survey Executive Summary
  
  
• Aging Initiative University Survey Report
  
  
• Through a competitive process three regional county/university collaborative sites, representing northern, central, and southern California, are working to develop sustainable funding sources for improving the training of geriatric social workers. Additional goals are: to develop sites which serve as distribution points for Archstone-funded stipends for social work students, to be delivery points for in-service training, and to pprovide entry to agencies for a planned labor market survey of social workers in aging.
  
  
• Grant received: On June 18, 2005, the Archstone Foundation awarded the Aging Initiative a three-year, $655,000 grant. The CalSWEC II Aging Initiative: California Labor Force Development in Geriatric Social Work grant provides funds to develop three key activities:

1. Adopt and disseminate a competency based geriatric social work curriculum for all California Schools of Social Work

2. Develop sustainable models of stipends based on county/university partnerships

3. Encourage workforce development

• Competencies being developed: Standardized, professional geriatric/gerontological social work competencies for the training and education of social workers were adopted by the CalSWEC Board of Directors in February 2006. Please visit the Aging Competencies link for more details.
  
  
• Schools interested: As a result of the CalSWEC Aging Summit, 12 California schools of social work applied for faculty development support with the Hartford CSWE GeroED Center. California is the only state to be designated as its own GeroEd region. A list of Schools of Social Work in the California Curriculum Development Institute (CDI) Region can be found in the CalSWEC Aging Summit Executive Report.

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