A Partnership Among a University, Foundation and Community Agencies for Training Gerontological Social Workers

Abstract

Attention to preparing social workers for our aging society has increased with concern that there may be insufficient professionals to meet the need. Interest in training gerontologically-savvy social work students had led to the development of models to achieve this end. This article reports on a collaboration among a university's school of social work, a foundation, and community agencies, to provide special training for students interested in aging. The model presented here offers locally-focused and smaller founders in aging an educational strategy to achieve their goals. The evaluation of the model and the findings of this evaluation are reviewed.

Acknowledgments

The Andrus Scholars Program is funded by the Helen Andrus Benedict Foundation.