Leadership Competency Development

Since 1999, with support from the John A. Hartford Foundation, The Social Work Leadership Institute at the New York Academy of Medicine in collaboration with schools of social work across the country have been growing a specialized field education model for masters-level social work students. Today, this program is referred to as The Hartford Partnership Program for Aging Education.

The program's aim is to train 1,000+ social workers to work with older adults. The model itself has six essential components: University-Community Partnership, Competency-Based Education, Field Rotations, Expanded Role of the Field Instructor, Student Recruitment, and Leadership in Aging. The last component, Leadership in Aging was added in early 2008 after a series of discussions and a survey of schools to assess their need for and desire to incorporate leadership development work into their programs. Based on that pre-work, and in order to support the component formally, SWLI mobilized a national committee of leaders to gather, analyze and create leadership competencies that could be incorporated into the current Geriatric Social Work Competencies II Scale, and be incorporated into each school's HPPAE program.

Committee for the Advancement of Macro and Leadership Competencies

JoAnn Damron-Rodriguez, Chair, LCSW, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
Holly Nelson-Becker, PhD., University of Kansas, Associate Professor
Marion Bogo, MSW, Adv. Dip. SW, Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto
Patricia Brownell, PhD. Associate Professor, Graduate School of Social Service, Fordham University
Anne Ricky Fortune, Ph.D. Associate, Research Core. Professor School of Social Welfare University at Albany
Roberta Greene, PhD., The School of Social Work at The University of Texas at Austin, Professor
Susan Stark, LCSW, Director, PROGRESS Geriatric Social Work Program, an HPPAE Site, University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work

The Social Work Leadership Institute at The New York Academy of Medicine:

Jeannine Melly, MPH; Deputy Director
Carin Tinney, MSW, Associate Program Officer
Patricia Volland, MBA, MSW, Director
Jarmin Yeh, MSSW, MPH; Program Strategy Associate

Foundation Support provided by:

The John A. Hartford Foundation, Geriatric Social Work Initiative

Download the Leadership Pilot Competencies document.

GERIATRIC SOCIAL WORK (GSW) COMPETENCES: MOVING TOWARD LEADERSHIP
Read more about the principles that guided the national team in developing the leadership competencies.

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