The Center for Social Development (CSD) in the George Warren Brown School of Social Work will host “Crossing Network Lines: Facilitating Partnerships and Building Coalitions Across Aging and Disability Service Networks to Improve Service Delivery,” a scientific meeting of national and local scholars, practice professionals, public officials and policy makers Oct. 7 at the Chase Park Plaza.
“This meeting brings together national experts and community-based professionals in an open discussion to evaluate where we are in terms of partnerships and coalitions between aging and disability organizations and what we need to do to improve our ability to work together,” says Michelle Putnam, Ph.D., assistant professor of social work and the conference organizer.
“There is a general understanding among scholars and practice professionals that partnering is important. Our charge is to think about how research can help forward work in this area.”
A highlight of the meeting will be Putnam’s presentation of a John A. Hartford Foundation-sponsored case study on partnerships between aging and disability service providers in Missouri.
Additional presenters include Rosalie Kane, D.S.W., professor of public health at the University of Minnesota; Margaret Campbell, Ph.D., program review coordinator for the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research; and Fernando Torres-Gil, Ph.D., professor of social welfare and policy studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.
The meeting is sponsored by The National Institute on Aging, the CSD and GWB.
For more information, call Patricia Welch Saleeby at 935-9075 ex. 2 or e-mail agingdisabilityevents@gwbmail.wustl.edu.