The Geriatric Social Work Leadership Internship provides specialized geriatric training and stipends for Older Adult and Family concentration graduate social work students who have completed their first year of field internship. The GSWEC LeadershipInternship is a program of the Partners in Care Foundation (PCF) and was intially funded by grants from the John A. Hartford and Archstone Foundation. The PCF collaborates with the departments and schools of social work of CSULB, CSULA, USC and UCLA to provide this unique training opportunity. Graduate Interns are placed at various comprehensive social service agencies throughout Los Angeles County where didactic leaning and practice interventions are combined to train the interns to meet the challenges of geriatric social work in the twenty-first century. Applications are received once a year early in the spring semester.
For more information please go to www.geriatricsocialwork.org or please look at the 2008 GSWEC Student Guide manual and download the GSWEC 2008 Application .
For those of you who are going to apply for the GSWEC Stipend Program, you are highly urged to go to the GSWEC Orientation at Huntington Memorial Hospital on March 12 please click here for more information and driving instructions. Attending this Orientation will give you more information about the GSWEC placement options and an opportunity to arrange visits and interviews at the various GSWEC sites of interest. Visiting these agencies will also give you an "advantage" in the CSULB campus-based formal GSWEC student interviews.
Tom Crowe,
LCSW
Assistant Coordinator of Field Education
(562) 985-4647
tcrowe@csulb.edu
