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SWLDA Retreat 2003, Cape Cod Planning
Committee Identifies Themes, Topics and Speakers Work continues on plans for the 2003 SWLDA retreat on the Cape. The dominant themes of the retreat this year will be evaluating social work practice and identifying value added in palliative care and research methods. Participants will look at the contributions of social workers in end-of-life and palliative care, look for ways to better enhance research skills and the capabilities of PDIA Social Work Leaders and continue discussions and efforts initiated at the Duke Summit on End-of-Life and Palliative Care in 2002. The retreat’s planning committee is made up of Susan Blacker and Gary Stein from Cohort I, Katherine Walsh-Burke from Cohort II, Betty Kramer and Shirley Otis-Green from Cohort III, Mercedes Bern-Klug from Cohort IV, Elizabeth Chaitin from Cohort V, and Karen Bullock from Cohort VI. Speakers at the retreat will include Sidney Stahl, a staff member from NIA, who will present on end-of-life research priorities at NIH/NIA and strategies for obtaining funding, Deborah Padgett, a professor from NYU and president of the Society for Social Work Research (SSWR) who will share her expertise with qualitative research methods and optimal strategies for blending quantitative and qualitative approaches in social work research, and Joan Teno, who will share state-of-the-art measurements that can be used in evaluation research (see her web site at http://www.chcr. brown.edu/Teno.htm).
Cape Cod Bay, courtesy of www.oceanedge.com The retreat should also include round table discussions on curriculum issues and several breakout sessions on the following topics: Palliative care in underserved populations and health disparities; Social work participation in new palliative care initiatives with children; Spirituality and religion; Palliative care in non-traditional settings, e.g. ICU, prisons, catastrophes, disasters; Social work leadership roles in hospices and palliative care centers; and New approaches to understanding bereavement, loss, and trauma in adults and children. Breakout sessions will be facilitated by Social Work Leaders whose projects and experience coincide with those topics. In addition to the aforementioned topics and speakers, the setting of the retreat on Cape Cod Bay should provide an environment suitable for outdoor activities, such as a sunrise bereavement service led by Social Work Leader John Linder with bagpipe accompaniment PDIA Faculty Scholar Cameron Muir. Social Work Leader Katherine Walsh-Burke will be in charge of expressive activities and reflections.
Property map of OceanEdge Resort, courtesy of www.oceanedge.com
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