Evaluation Report

Kentucky ADRC Options Counseling Certificate Program (2014)

A major goal of Kentucky’s ADRC program is to empower individuals to make informed choices and to streamline access to long-term support. Long-term support refers to a wide range of in-home, community-based, and institutional services and programs that are designed to help both aging individuals and individuals with disabilities. In order to help achieve that goal, a commitment was made to provide workforce training and the program was developed.

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Evaluation Report

Massachusetts DPH Mental Wellness and Resilience Among Older Immigrants and Refugees (2014)

The CADER Mental Wellness and Resilience Among Older Adult Immigrants and Refugees training program, was designed to provide practitioners with competency-based training that addresses the core knowledge, skills, and values needed for enhancing mental wellness and resilience among older adults.

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Evaluation Report

Georgia Aging and Disability Resource Connection (ADRC) Evaluation Report (2014)

CADER’s Georgia Aging and Disability Resource Connection (ADRC) Program is designed to provide ADRC staff with competency-based training that addresses the core knowledge, skills and values needed for effective work with older adults and people with disabilities.

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Evaluation Report

Massachusetts DPH Suicide Prevention Among Older Adult Immigrants and Refugees (2013)

The CADER Suicide Prevention Among Older Adult Immigrants and Refugees course is a blended-learning course, designed to provide practitioners with competency-based training that addresses the core knowledge, skills, and values needed for suicide prevention among older adults.

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Evaluation Report

Georgia Certificate in Care Management and Aging (2013)

The IGSW Atlanta Region Certificate in Care Management in Aging is designed to provide practitioners with competency-based training that addresses the core knowledge, skills and values needed for effective care management with older adults and people with disabilities.

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Publication

Patient-Centered Approach to Building Problem Solving Skills among Older Primary Care Patients: Problems Identified and Resolved (2011)

This article describes problems identified by older primary care patients enrolled in Problem Solving Therapy (PST), and explores factors associated with successful problem resolution.

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Integrating Social Workers into Primary Care: Physician and Nurse Perceptions of Roles, Benefits and Challenges (2009)

The primary aim of this article is to identify, from the perspective of primary care physicians and nurses, the challenges encountered in provision of health care to older adults and to identify potential roles, challenges, and benefits of integrating social workers into primary care teams.

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Policy Brief

Evaluation Through Collaboration: A Model Program of Agency-Based Training in Geriatric Social Work (2008)

The Institute for Geriatric Social Work (IGSW), located at Boston University School of Social Work, formed a collaborative partnership with Elder Services of the Merrimack Valley (ESMV)— a large, urban Area Agency on Aging near Boston— to design, implement, and evaluate an innovative model program of agency-based training for practicing social workers.

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Policy Brief

A Statewide Training Program to Promote Workforce Development in Aging (2008)

This report is a summary of the EOEA-IGSW Online Certificate in Aging Program, a collaboration between the Executive Office of Elder Affairs (EOEA) and the Institute for Geriatric Social Work (IGSW) at Boston University.

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Publication

Training Retired Social Workers: Experience and Innovation to Serve the Aging Population (2007)

As part of the goal to bring retired social workers back into the field to serve older adults, the Retired Social Workers Project offers a number of professional development and education programs focused on services for seniors.

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