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SWK Receives Geriatric Education Grant

Professor Jay Poole and his colleagues Dr. Wayne Moore (NC A&T University) and Professor Janet Kanode announce the receipt of a generous grant from the Council on Social Work Education's Geriatric Education Division. The Masters Advanced Curriculum (MAC) project will infuse aging content into existing master's level health care and mental health care curricula.

While content on aging has been a part of social work courses, this new effort will intersperse specific and in-depth content into courses that focus on social work in physical and mental health care settings. "As the population of America ages, helping professionals must be well educated about issues that affect older people," Poole stated. "The MAC project promotes the development of in-depth material to better equip social work students to provide quality services.

Over the next two years, Poole and his colleagues will be developing new course materials that will implement electronic technology so that other programs and institutions may access the innovations. Ultimately, this grant will support the development of professional competencies so that older people will be better served by the social work profession.

UNCG was selected from a pool of 50 applicants as one of 14 institutions nationwide to receive this grant which is supported by the Hartford Foundation. Programs were funded based on 1) the quality of the innovation in addressing the specialty areas and aging; 2) how well the innovation reaches students specializing in areas other than aging; 3) the utility of the deliverables to other social work programs nationally; and 4) commitment to the innovation and its infusion as evidenced by faculty leadership in the specialty area of health, mental health or substance abuse, the administrative support and the budget match.

For more information about this project, contact Jay Poole. You can also visit the awards announcement from Aging Times.

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