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HPPAE Annual Partner Meeting:
Building a Successful UniversityCommunity Partnership Towards
Sustaining HPPAE
Anwar Najor-Durack, Wayne State University
Marcia Spira, Loyola University
Friday October 28, 2011
4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Designing HPPAE field education program –
Wayne State Univ & Agency involvement
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Field Instructor involvement at outset of
HPPAE
Hosting meetings on campus and at
partner agencies
Field Instructors assisting with training of
new students
Field Instructors sharing in ideas for
sustaining program and stipends
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Recruit and Retention of
HPPAE Students
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Agency Partners participated in panel
presentation for “Careers in Aging Week”
event to publicize HPPAE and social work
careers in aging
Willingness to talk/meet with prospective
students
Provide Field Instructors to facilitate the
professional and personal development of
social workers interested in working with
older adults
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Oversee implementation of the HPPAE
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Review applications for HPPAE participants
Field Instructors volunteer a full day to visit
campus and interview students for selection
Participate in two day training during the
summer to assist in preparing HPPAE
students for fall placement
Participate in semester meetings to support
students through transition for following
semester assignments
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Evaluate the programs effectiveness
and revise as needed
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Field Instructors and students provide
feedback at each end of term meeting
• Field Instructors and students complete a
written evaluation at end of each year
• End of year meeting used to discuss
possible program changes – (ex. Rotation
models restructured)
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Collaborations at the heart of HPPAE
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Loyola and University of Chicago
consortium
• Faculty and field collaborations
 Early meetings with field instructors to
plan recruitment and content
 Advisory meetings three x per year
 Student feedback to faculty and field
 Follow up surveys
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Cultivate and garner resources to keep
the program running
• Partner with the WSUSSW Center for Social
Work Practice and Policy Research for
exploration of external funding sources
• FIs are working within their agencies to create
stipends for future participants
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AARP, VA and Foundation stipends
• List serve used to share information on
workshops, free services and other training
for students and FIs
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Benefits of our
University-Community Partnership
• Strengthening overall partnership – they
know us better and we see each other at
least four times each year!
• Field Instructors and faculty contacts –
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CE Instructor
EBP workshop for agency by faculty
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Sustainability
• Use of repeat field sites
• Ongoing application for grants to fund
stipends
• Professional development programs for
CEU’s
• Opportunities to teach in the classroom
and add to gero opportunities
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Sustainability continued
• Students participate in Careers in Aging
• Integrative seminar
• Gero specialization
• Follow up survey
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HPPAE Fellows
HPPAE Fellows (n=10)
• Seek other staff members and resources to expand knowledge of how
agency fits into larger community service network
• Develop and co-facilitate with other interns, a sensory stimulation group
for cognitively impaired older adults at agency’s adult day services
• Advocate on behalf of clients with agencies and other professionals
• Prepare and present integrative seminar
•Deepen understanding of connections and relationship between older
adult program and medical center
• Contact other organizations to facilitate formation of additional focus
groups
• Coordinate involvement with director of philanthropy and external
consultants
• Participate in mixed-professional group decision making process
• Form working relationships with medical community including academic
physicians and other specialties
Non-Hartford Students in Older Adult
Placements (n=10)
 Participate in interdisciplinary staffings
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