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About the Institute
Goals
- Build and disseminate a multigenerational knowledge base
- Develop policy and practice skills to promote health and social justice across generations
- Articulate key components comprising a multigenerational framework
- Incorporate the concepts of equality and justice as well as social inclusion/exclusion into existing and emerging paradigms and practices for promoting well-being across generations
- Specify how a multigenerational conceptual and practice approach can promote social justice, equality and social inclusion
- Explicate the intersections among age, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation and gender in inequities perpetuated across the life span
- Reconceptualize aging and health from a medical model of disease and death to a multidisciplinary model of productivity, resilience, and contributions across generations
Concept Paper
Accomplishments
Accomplishments for 2004-2005 :
- Paper accepted for publication
- Papers submitted for publication
- Presented at four national conferences
- Developed and pilot-tested caregiving-care receiving questionnaire
- Finalized grant proposal
- Two doctoral students selected as Hartford Doctoral Fellows
Accomplishments for 2003-2004 :
- Developed the Center for Vulnerable Children and Families
- Completed community practitioner interviews regarding multigenerational practice
- Sponsored quarterly school-wide educational events
- Integrated multigenerational curriculum into SW 514s and other MSW courses
- Formed four research groups:
- Children and Vulnerable Families
- Native American Health
- Non-traditional Caregiving in Historical Disadvantaged Communities
- Multigenerational Families
- Institute Affiliate Charles Emlet received distinguished researcher of the year award from the University of Washington Tacoma.
- Provided multigenerational course materials to all sections of micro practice sequence; continued multigenerational focus in advanced practice courses
- Institute Director Karen Fredriksen-Goldsen selected as Hartford Faculty Scholar – UW now has five Hartford Scholars!
- Submitted grant proposals
- Submitted papers for publications
- Presented several papers at various conferences, of special note Maureen Marcenko, noted child welfare expert, presented at Gerontological Social of American’s Annual Meeting
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