2005 NewsDeborah T. Gold New Director of the Leadership in an Aging Society Program Dr. Maddox will continue to advise the program, and Sandy Crawford Leak, who has managed the Leadership Program over the past decade and who is now a doctoral student in the Public Health Leadership Program at the UNC School of Public Health, will act as a consultant to the program during this transition year. The interdisciplinary Leadership in an Aging Society Program provides leadership development and summer research and internship support for students with the potential to be the next generation of leaders on issues facing an aging society. Information on eligibility criteria and the application process is available by contacting Sandy Crawford Leak at 919-660-7542. 2004 Interns Featured at Open House; Annual George L. Maddox, Ph.D. Lecture – Duke LTC’s Teaching & Learning Philosophy a Cornerstone of the Community Partnerships for Older Adults Program The Teaching and Learning Philosophy began in North Carolina with Duke LTC’s Teaching Communities Program. This program, which received grant assistance from the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust, leveraged the experience of some of North Carolina 's leading sites in long term care infrastructure development and disseminated their lessons-learned to a wider audience across the state. CPOA uses this philosophy to encourage grantees to share their creative approaches and success stories, as well as efforts that perhaps didn’t fare so well. The Teaching and Learning Philosophy is evident in three aspects of CPOA’s technical assistance efforts. Regular community-to-community conference calls provide a forum in which grantees choose a topic of common interest (e.g., neighborhood-based initiatives, using Web sites and electronic newsletters as tools of communication) and share with each other their successes, challenges and questions. CPOA holds Teaching and Learning meetings which bring together grantees, national experts and program staff to exchange experiences and learn from one another. The resulting synergy leaves all participants enriched and informed. Finally, Stories from the Field is part of CPOA’s Web-based Resource Center . The stories present communities’ real-life efforts in creating local solutions for the issues that challenge the long term care and supportive services systems and provide readers an opportunity to know what has and hasn’t worked for other partnerships. CPOA grantee partners are at the forefront of a growing national effort to improve the long term care systems landscape from the community perspective. By learning locally and sharing nationally, communities are developing and implementing sustainable systems improvements. |