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The Eldercare Workforce Alliance (EWA) has released a toolkit for advocates of older adults who are dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid, entitled Quality Care through a Quality Workforce. The toolkit provides resources that can be implemented by stakeholders to promote concrete workforce policy and practice recommendations that ensure competence care of older adults for state officials, health plans, and provider networks.

On October 16, 2014, the Gero-Ed Center co-hosted a webinar on the Certified Application Counselor (CAC) program with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), and the Society for Social Work Leadership in Healthcare (SSWLHC).

Center staff continue to add to and update this website’s gero-focused case studies, class exercises, reading lists/bibliographies, assignments… and more! Just this year, 11 bibliographies, 9 case studies, 2 syllabi, and 1 in-class assignment have been added—and nearly 20 bibliographies have been updated with current readings. Visit the Teaching Resources section to review, download, and use some of the nearly 350 resources in your own courses!

SAGE Publications and the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) are proud to announce the two recipients of the SAGE/CSWE 2014 Award for Innovative Teaching in Social Work Education Award. They are Leslie Hollingsworth (University of Michigan) and Christine McKenna Lok (Regis College). ...

MFP Welcomes the 2014–2015 New Fellows Daryllyn Harris Smith College Darren Whitfield University of Denver Visit Meet the Fellows to learn about the entire 2014–2015 cohort.

Congratulations to the 2014 awardees of the Ashley Brooks-Danso Memorial Fund's Student Travel Scholarships! Charlie Bouverette, Kathryn Fox, and Olaide Wolfe will receive $500 to assist with travel expenses and complimentary registration to attend the CSWE 2014 Annual Program Meeting (APM) in Tampa, FL from October 23–26, 2014.

Join the Gero-Ed Center for a preconference Faculty Development Institute to learn how to prepare social work students with person-centered and participant-directed competencies at the 2014 CSWE APM!

A recording of the webinar The ACA and Care Transitions: Implications for Social Work, which took place on July 16, 2014 is now available! Paul Gould of Binghamton University and Walter Rosenberg of Rush University Medical Center discussed care transition interventions that utilize social workers, directions for social work practice, and implications for social work education created by new payment structures and business models.

The official selections of the 2014 Film Festival, part of the CSWE Annual Program Meeting, are now available! Two films feature gerontological themes, including Cyber-Seniors, which highlights a mentoring program in which teens teach older adults how to use computers, and Homegoings, which explores the significance of death in African American communities.

ADVISORY WHO: Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) WHAT: Has screened and chosen 12 films to participate in the CSWE 2014 Film Festival. This year’s film topics cover many of the issues that are plaguing society, from mental illness stigma to military sexual assault. Listed below in ...