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Field Directors as Leaders: The Social Work Leadership Institute’s Practicum Partnership Program

Field Directors as Leaders: The Social Work Leadership Institute’s Practicum Partnership Program. Patricia Volland,MSW, MBA Social Work Leadership Institute, New York Academy of Medicine. Social Work Leadership Institute. Supports healthy aging and independent living for older adults

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Field Directors as Leaders: The Social Work Leadership Institute’s Practicum Partnership Program

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  1. Field Directors as Leaders: The Social Work Leadership Institute’s Practicum Partnership Program Patricia Volland,MSW, MBA Social Work Leadership Institute, New York Academy of Medicine

  2. Social Work Leadership Institute • Supports healthy aging and independent living for older adults • Recruits and trains new cohorts of elder-serving social workers • Advances aging care through evidence based research and care coordination models • Cultivates leaders in social work • Develops long range policy agenda and advocates for legislative change

  3. SWLI Practicum Partnership Program • The Practicum Partnership Program (PPP) is a competency based educational initiative for MSW programs • Recruits and trains qualified social workers with expertise in aging • Builds on community-university partnerships • Links course work with field instruction • Promotes leadership development

  4. SWLI Practicum Partnership Program • 41 schools in 23 states • Over 500 recruited and trained to date • 140 currently enrolled annually • Community agency participation increases • Plan to fund 25 additional programs • Implement throughout graduate education through leadership development, local partnerships, training and collaboration • Key partners: NADD, NASW, CSWE

  5. PPP Benefits • Clients • Students • Universities • Agencies • Social Work Profession

  6. PPP: Benefits to Clients • Improved Services • Trained social workers • Access to coordinated care

  7. PPP: Benefits to Students • Exposes students to older adults along the continuum of care • Educational experience is strengthened by “targeted” selection of community agencies that parallel the continuum of services available for older adults • Integrates field/class through active collaboration and shared responsibilities • Increases students’ ability to identify learning needs and gaps in learning

  8. PPP Benefits: To Universities • Provides universities with opportunity to expand leadership role in the community • Effective recruitment tool • Provides for collaborative leadership in competency based training • Facilitates integration of current practice in educational curriculum • The curriculum and course content related to geriatrics/gerontology have been expanded.

  9. PPP Benefits: To Agencies • Increased pool of competent social work practitioners • Increases visibility within the universities • Improved collaboration among/between community agencies • Improved services to clients

  10. PPP Benefits: To Social Work Profession • Raises awareness of aging in a positive way • Develops leadership cohort • Focuses national attention on growing field of practice

  11. Leadership Imperatives • Special opportunity for social work to support independent, healthy aging • Intersection of health, social, cultural, economic and challenges facing older adults • Help older adults stay in charge of their lives • Provide community leadership focusing on improving care delivery and systems coordination • Promote social work expertise to navigate complex systems of care • Active participation in interdisciplinary team

  12. Leadership Imperatives • Engage social work expertise in communities and organizations to address demographic shift • Build university and community partnerships • Recruit and train new leaders to create opportunities for innovation • Develop strategies to address critical shortage of elder-serving social workers

  13. Goals of Leadership Development • Engage a grass roots network of deans and directors, field directors and educators, students of social work, and community leaders/agencies • Build collaboration inclusive of diverse points of view • Work together to expand the PPP and make it a self sustaining model for education in graduate schools of social work • Advance the recruitment and training of new generation of social workers who have expertise in aging and are committed to working in this field

  14. Field Directors as Leaders • Field Directors play critical role in ensuring that aging-focused social work students find appropriate placement that enhances expertise and further cultivates interest in field of aging • Field Directors serve as bridge between community students and faculty, and essential role in the building of university-community partnerships on which the PPP is founded

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