BUSSW Participates in CSWE Gero-Ed Forum and Leadership Seminar

Several members of the School of Social Work community had various roles in the recent Council on Social Work Education-sponsored Leadership Seminar and Gero-Ed Forum. These programs were held February 2 to 4, 2007 in Charleston, South Carlolina.

Dean ad interim Gail Steketee was one of three presenters in a session on “Balancing Leadership and Research Roles,” as part of Building Leaders in Social Work Education: Pathways to Success. The other presenters were Joan Levy Zlotnick, Executive Director, Institute for the Advancement of Social Work Research and William Meezan, Dean and Professor, Ohio State University College of Social Work.

Participants in the Gero Ed Forum included:

* Assistant Dean Trudy Zimmerman, Program Director Reeve Goldhaber, and Professor Scott Miyake Geron, who conducted a table-top presentation on “The Boston GEM Consortium: A Model Collaborative Partnership.”

* Professor Geron, Kathy Kuhn, and Tamara Koenig, all from the School’s Institute for Geriatric Social Work, who made an electronic presentation, “Online Certificate in Aging: A Model of Incoprorating Aging Competencies in Social Work Practice.”

* Professor Geron, who was among four presenters of a workshop, “Building and Sustaining Community Partnerships.” His colleagues included Anita Curry Jackson, of Wright State University; Irene A, Gutheil, Fordham University; and Virginia Cooke Robbins, University of Houston.