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Project Description

Social workers face a complex and ever-challenging environment. The Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) report, Crossing the Quality Chasm (IOM, 2001), noted the dramatic changes in service delivery in the United States will require new skills among those in the workforce. The changes include the shift in emphasis from acute care to chronic care, the increasing use of team-based and other complex service delivery structures, and more collaborative patient-clinician relationships. Now more than ever, the workforce is looking for lifelong learning programs to build their competencies and state and local agencies are seeking partnerships with academic institutions to build career ladders for the people they employ. To respond to these challenges, Boston University’s School of Social Work (BUSSW) aims to build upon our talented pool of alumni and create opportunities for alumni to continue to be engaged with BUSSW and further their knowledge and skills through lifelong learning and graduate opportunities.

As a first step, we plan to create a portal that will serve as a “one-stop shopping” for all training and workforce development efforts at the School of Social Work. As part of this, we plan to develop a robust and interactive “Trainers Bureau” that will list subject matter experts in a variety of topic areas who are alumni and faculty members at SSW who are interested in providing training across the country. This will allow us to build upon our talented alumni pool as subject matter experts who can hold in-person training, webinars, review online courses, and serve as online course authors in order to expand and diversify BUSSW’s offerings. The second component is to further build the skills and competencies of our alumni subject matter experts to become expert trainers and course developers. We plan to create a mini series of online courses to train the trainer in areas of best practices in training, developing and delivering content, and evaluating the training outcomes. The final component, built off the earlier foundational work, will be to recruit a cadre from the above-mentioned pool of content area experts who can serve as “consultants” to state departments and agencies across the country who are looking for guidance/technical assistance in assessing training needs and developing training programs that will build the competencies of the workforce.

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Bronwyn Keefe Incubator

“We truly enjoy the close partnership that is unfolding in our work with DL&I’s Digital Education Incubator. The project support and thoughtful management from DL&I is very different from other funded projects–it’s a true collaboration from the early stages of concept development to the implementation. We are thrilled to be working together on this.”

— Bronwyn Keefe, Boston University School of Social Work

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BU Bronwyn Keefe

Bronwyn Keefe, PhD, MPH, MSW

Bronwyn Keefe, PhD, MPH, MSW, is a Research Assistant Professor at Boston University’s School of Social Work and Director of the Center for Aging and Disability Education and Research (CADER) and Professional Education Programs (PEP). Dr. Keefe has extensive experience in developing curriculum and evaluating training initiatives for professionals who work with older adults and people with disabilities. Through her leadership, CADER has trained over 20,000 workers and worked with more than 450 community-based agencies and state organizations across the country by providing online training in the area of aging. Dr. Keefe has been the PI on many grant-funded projects related to behavioral health, with a focus on building the capacity of providers and communities in understanding the importance of mental health, substance use, and developing age-friendly initiatives to improve the lives of older adults. Dr. Keefe’s research interests are in behavioral health and aging; workforce development; online curriculum development; program and training evaluation; long-term service and support delivery; community-based programs and services; and the intersection of aging and disability programs and policies.

BU Anna Stathopoulou

Anna Stathopoulou

Anna Stathopoulou has been the Online Training Manager at the Center for Aging and Disability Education and Research (CADER) since 2004. Ms. Stathopoulou leads contract negotiations, oversees the implementation and management of training programs, and is responsible for customizing the client experience through creating training portals and customizing programs. More recently, she now manages all training efforts for the BUSSW Professional Education Programs (PEP). Ms. Stathopoulou is also responsible for overseeing all marketing efforts for CADER and PEP.

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BU Hairpin

Hairpin

Hairpin builds brands for world-changers, do-gooders & hell-raisers. We’re collaborating with the team at BUSSW to tell the story of The Network for Professional Education – a place where health and social services professionals can find lifelong learning opportunities and connect with like-minded experts to accelerate the field of social work. We began by developing the underlying strategy: articulating what The Network is and why it matters, defining its suite of products and services, and clarifying how its multiple brands fit together within a system. Hairpin then designed and developed an interactive website that gives users a clear path to explore and register for learning opportunities, find and connect with trainers, and become part of The Network’s community of practice. Learn more: hairpin.org.

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