Fundraising News
Case's Mandel School receives $92,000
from Mcgregor Foundation for certificate program
in gerontology practice and leadership
Funds will also go toward case studies of service
delivery to elderly
A $92,000 grant from the McGregor Foundation will enable Case Western
Reserve University’s Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences
(MSASS) to begin a certificate program for advanced practice in gerontology
and strengthen its existing courses in aging and geriatric services.
About $72,000 of the grant will go to MSASS’s Program for Innovative
Education in Aging. Merl C. "Terry” Hokenstad, the Schmitt
Professor of Social Work, said the funds will be used to add a certificate
program, the Certificate for Advanced Practice and Leadership in Gerontology,
for professionals whose previous social work education did not focus
on gerontology.
“A lot of people working in aging related services started out
somewhere else in social work and may have moved into the aging field,
but they don’t have the background and skills they need to maximize
their effectiveness,” Hokenstad explained. “This certificate
course will provide them with that.” The program is scheduled
to begin at the start of the 2006 calendar year.
The grant will also enable the Program for Innovative Education in
Aging to conduct on-site case studies of programs around the United
States and in other countries with unique approaches to delivering services
to the elderly. The case studies will be incorporated into MSASS’s
social work practice courses in its aging concentration.
The remaining $20,000 of the grant will go toward the Gerontological
Scholars Program, which provides scholarship funds to students in the
Program for Innovative Education in Aging.
The McGregor Foundation made a similar grant for $60,272 earlier this
year to establish the Program for Innovative Education in Aging.
The Mandel School offers a concentration in aging as part of its M.S.S.A.
degree, including field learning and courses in family caregiving, death
and dying, aging policy and service delivery and social work serving
older people.
January 11, 2005 | For more information: Jeff
Bendix (216)-368-6070
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