Graduate school research shows positive outcomes for older social work students
09/30/2011 - 04:40:45pm
People over 40 are finding that their efforts to earn a Master of Social Work (MSW) are paying off, at least at one school.
The Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis conducted a survey of MSW students over 40 from the past 10 years to determine if they got what they came for – mainly, a supportive environment and a career in social work.
- by: Cal Halvorsen | More >
It's National Employ Older Workers Week!
09/19/2011 - 10:51:09am
It’s National Employ Older Workers Week (Sept. 18-24), and I hope that I can count on you to help spread the word!
An annual event sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor, National Employ Older Workers Week is a call to action for employers and employees alike to recognize the value and necessity of experienced workers in our nation’s workforce.
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| Hank Smith , Morgan Community College |
Morgan Community College
Nearly 40 years ago, Hank Smith graduated from high school, joined the Navy and briefly attended nursing school, even taking on a health care job while in the service.
As much as he enjoyed the health field, Smith left the Navy and got an entry-level job at the U.S. Postal Service. He worked his way up from mail processing to retail associate to local Postmaster and, then, at 55, he retired – in part, to help care for his mother.
Every day, 8,000 Americans turn 60 and many can expect 100-year life spans. The length of retirement for centenarians could be more than 30 years. Not everyone finds the prospect of three decades of leisure time enviable, much less sensible. For Marc Freedman, author of The Big Shift: Navigating the New Stage Beyond Midlife, it is also an egregious waste of the talent and experience accumulated by nearly 80 million boomers.
We celebrate individuals from time to time for breaking new ground or delivering creative, efficient solutions to public problems. But rarely do we pay attention to where tomorrow's innovators will come from. At City Year and Civic Ventures, this "new pipeline" approach is built into the mission of our organizations. We share an expectation that we should be engaging people in solving, or building capacity to solve, their communities' problems.
Older workers, the argument goes, are “sucking the oxygen out of the atmosphere.” Any job found is one that a younger person will be denied; any social support received for this stage of life is one they won’t get for theirs – and will have to pay for later." Suzanne Braun Levine, author of Father Courage: What Happens When Men Put Family First and Civic Ventures board member, discusses work-family conflict.
Outcome Tracking: Practical Tips
07/15/2011 - 01:48:13pm
In this resource brief, community colleges in Civic Ventures’ Encore College Initiative share tips for tracking student outcomes in programs for people 50 and older seeking encore careers in education, healthcare, social services and the emerging green economy.
- by: Diane Piktialis | More >
Community Colleges: A Great Option for Boomers Seeking Encores
05/31/2011 - 12:40:44pm
Community colleges have been receiving a lot of attention lately – from the White House Summit on Community Colleges to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Completion by Design to the Lumina Foundation’s Adult Degree Completion Commitment – and are seen as major partn
- by: Cal Halvorsen | More >
Colleges Look to Boomer Population for Students
05/25/2011 - 11:50:19am
To advance President Obama’s goal for the United States to have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world by 2020, colleges are increasingly seeing boomers as a growing source of students.
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Volunteer Orientation for the Boomers Leading Change in Health Nonprofit
Boomers Leading Change in Health serves as a resource to the community in matters related to health and health care.
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