"Leadership is essential to the success of our deans and directors. This program is designed to help build the important skills we need to advance our intergenerational agendas."
- Katharine Briar-Lawson, University at Albany, State University of New York School of Social Welfare and NADD President
"As America ages so must our workforce of social workers to care for them. This program is designed to help you see why enhancing your aging curriculum is good for your students, your school and older Americans."
- Patricia Volland, Social Work Leadership Institute, New York Academy of Medicine
ADVISORY BOARD
James Adams, Jr
Dean and Professor, School of Social Work University of Alabama
Frank Baskind
Dean, School of Social Work Virginia Commonwealth University
Katharine Briar-Lawson
Dean,University at Albany, State University of New York
Marilyn S. Flynn
Dean, School of Social Work University of Southern California
Michael A. Patchner
Dean, School of Social Work Indiana University
Peter B. Vaughan
Dean, Graduate School of Social Service Fordham University
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The New York Academy of Medicine’s Social Work Leadership Institute (SWLI) is a national initiative working to ensure that America's older adults receive the care they need to live life to the fullest-and that their caregivers also get the support they deserve.
One of the SWLI’s primary goals is to build the workforce of social workers who are trained in aging care; the Hartford Partnership Program for Aging Education was designed to serve this goal. Our intention with this leadership training program is to help social work deans and directors further develop as leaders in the field of aging care, which includes advancing the partnership program’s educational model and advocating for policies that make it easier for older adults to benefit from the services of trained social workers.
LEADERSHIP GOALS
By participating in the program, and by becoming leaders in the expanding field of aging education and policy, deans and directors will grow as individuals and will have the opportunity to:
- Raise their school’s visibility and status within the university
- Recruit students by strengthening their school/university’s presence in the field
- Strengthen legislative outreach and education skills
- Strengthen community development skills while increasing their school’s role in the community and broader environment
- Strengthen capacity-building and management skills
- Build strategic leadership skills
- Increase resource development skills
- Mentor or be mentored by senior deans
ELEMENTS OF THE PROGRAM
- Leadership: How can you advance your leadership skills? What are best practices in the field? How can improved leadership advance your agenda?
- Skill-building: Best practices sessions on fundraising, interdepartmental communications, capacity-building, organizational and staff management, policy analysis and advocacy, time management, faculty relations, and media outreach.
- Mentorship: A senior dean to mentor each participant and to spend at least one day shadowing the mentee.
- Aging Commitment: Each participant will be asked to develop a plan to infuse the aging agenda into their work and school.
- Continued Learning: An online network of participants and alumni, creating a cadre of specialists.
TRAINING SCHEDULE
Session 1: September 19-21, 2008 - Tarrytown, New York
Session 2: October 28, 2008 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (in conjunction with NADD Fall Conference)
Session 3: February 6-8, 2009 - San Francisco, California
Session 4: June 12, 2009 - New York, New York
For more information, please contact Patricia Volland, Senior Vice President, New York Academy of Medicine, 212-822-7207, or visit www.socialworkleadership.org.
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For Immediate Release
July 8, 2008
New York Academy of Medicine and the National Association of Deans and Directors of Schools of Social Work Launch New Leadership Academy
Inaugural Group of Participants Selected to Focus on Needs of Aging Baby Boomers
NEW YORK, NY -Administrators of social work schools and programs across the country will participate in the inaugural seminar of The Leadership Academy in Aging to build their capacity to address the needs of America’s aging population. The Academy is a joint venture of The New York Academy of Medicine’s Social Work Leadership Institute (SWLI) and the National Association of Deans and Directors of Schools of Social Work, with support from the John A. Hartford Foundation.
The selection committee chose 12 outstanding deans of social work schools and directors of social work programs to participate in the Academy, which helps social work administrators further develop as leaders in the field of aging care. The participants were competitively selected from a diverse pool of applicants from social work programs around the United States.
"Seventy million Americans, or one in five individuals, will be age 65 or older by 2030," said Patricia Volland, director of the Social Work Leadership Institute at the New York Academy of Medicine. "This demographic shift means that social work educators have a leadership role to play in growing the workforce of professionals who are qualified to address the needs of older Americans."
The Leadership Academy will launch in September 2008 with the first of four sessions throughout the academic year that include workshops on management, student recruitment, legislative outreach, media relations, community development, fundraising, and faculty relations. Each participant will be asked to develop a plan to introduce the aging agenda into their work and school.
"Our inaugural group represents leaders in social work from California to Mississippi to New York, demonstrating the appeal and need for such a program as we face the most dramatic population increase among older Americans in the history of the nation."-Katharine Briar- Lawson, immediate past president, National Association of Deans and Directors of Schools of Social Work
By participating in the Academy, and by becoming leaders in the expanding field of aging education and policy, deans and directors will have the opportunity to raise their school’s visibility, attract students, and build their management skills.
The Leadership Academy in Aging will help to advance an innovative model of social work education that is currently in effect at one-third of the country’s Master of Social Work programs. Called the Hartford Partnership Program in Aging Education, this model incorporates university-community partnerships and provides students with more than one clinical setting in which to complete their field education. The program is administered by the Social Work Leadership Institute with funding from the John A. Hartford Foundation
The award recipients are:
Andrew Safyer
Dean and Professor, Adelphi University
Bruce Friedman
Professor and Director, California State University at Bakersfield
Dennis Poole
Dean and Professor, University of South Carolina
Francine Veccholla
Dean and Professor, Springfield College
James H. Williams
Dean and Professor, University of Denver
Jannah Mather
Dean and Professor, University of Utah
Laura Bronstein
Director/Chair and Associate Professor, State University of New York, Binghamton
Mary Ellen Kondrat
Professor and Dean, University of Kansas
Michael Forster
Interim Dean and Professor, University of Southern Mississippi
Richard Barth
Dean and Professor, University of Maryland
Susan K. Sarnoff
Associate Professor and Chair, Ohio University
Theresa Barron-McKeagmy
Director and Professor, University of Nebraska-Omaha
The Social Work Leadership Institute at The New York Academy of Medicine is a national program that supports healthy aging by ensuring that America's older adults receive the care they need to stay independent and in charge of their lives- and that their caregivers also get the support they deserve. SWLI’s goals are to grow the workforce of social workers who specialize in aging and to improve long-term, community-based care for older adults so health and social services are more comprehensive, better linked, and easier to access.
Founded in 1929, the John A. Hartford Foundation is a committed champion of training, research and service system innovations that promote the health and independence of America’s older adults. Through its grantmaking, the Foundation seeks to strengthen the nation’s capacity to provide effective, affordable care to this rapidly increasing older population by educating "aging-prepared" health professionals (physicians, nurses, social workers), and developing innovations that improve and better integrate health and supportive services. Additional information about the Foundation and it programs is available at www.jhartfound.org.
ABOUT THE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY OF AGING
