Friday, December 19, 2014
John A. Hartford Foundation Supporting Advanced Social Work Training
A $1,055,297 three-year grant to the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) approved recently by the John A. Hartford Foundation Board of Trustees will launch an advanced training program that equips social work supervisors with the geriatric knowledge and supervisory skills they need to help strengthen social work practice on the front lines of health care service delivery.
The Hartford/National Association of Social Workers Gerontological Social Work Supervisors Program will train 160 master’s level social work supervisors in four regions (New York, Maryland, Illinois, and Florida) to enhance their geriatric knowledge and supervision skills so that more than 1,200 front line social workers will be better supported in improving and maintaining the health, safety, and independence of their older adult clients. The training is based on a successful pilot project in New York City over the past five years that addresses the complex needs of older adults and the challenging situations that might arise, such as disputed end-of-life decisions, self-neglect and elder abuse, or severe physical and mental illness....