Transform Social Work Education

To achieve the aim of transforming social work education at both the baccalaureate and master’s level, a broad base of programs was created to ensure that all social work graduates attain competence in geriatric social work and that those who specialize in gerontology receive excellent training opportunities. Grants to the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE), the accrediting agency for social work education in the United States, fund wide-ranging efforts to ensure geriatric competencies and content are infused in social work curricula, generalist social work textbooks, and overall organizational cultures of social work programs. Grants to the New York Academy of Medicine provide funding for aging-related advanced field placements for master’s level students.

(Above) Patty Hunter, MSW, LCSW, Director of Field Education and Co-Director of the Hartford Partnership Program for Aging Education, California State University, Chico, with social work students.

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