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National Research Capacity Building Initiative Roundtable: Great Challenges for Social Work: First Steps of a National Initiative
National Research Capacity Building Initiative Roundtable: Great Challenges for Social Work: First Steps of a National Initiative
Saturday, January 19, 2013: 1:15 PM-2:15 PM
Harbor Island Ballroom 3 (Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina)
Speakers/Presenters:
In the past decade, Grand Challenges initiatives have been adopted by various national academies, foundations, and public-private partnerships as a means to inspire, align, and focus a field's scientific and practical energy on solving society's greatest problems. In this session, we suggest that adoption of a Grand Challenges initiative would optimize social work's contribution to the quality of life and sustainability of an equitable society in the 21st century. We briefly describe the history and evolution of Grand Challenge initiatives, describe major dimensions on which they differ, and introduce a national plan for a "Grand Challenges for Social Work" initiative, initiated by a consortium of social work scholars and to be led by the American Academy for Social Work and Social Welfare. Next steps will be discussed.
Rowena Fong, EdD, University of Texas at Austin,
Edwina Uehara, PhD, University of Washington and
Richard P. Barth, PhD, University of Maryland at Baltimore
In the past decade, Grand Challenges initiatives have been adopted by various national academies, foundations, and public-private partnerships as a means to inspire, align, and focus a field's scientific and practical energy on solving society's greatest problems. In this session, we suggest that adoption of a Grand Challenges initiative would optimize social work's contribution to the quality of life and sustainability of an equitable society in the 21st century. We briefly describe the history and evolution of Grand Challenge initiatives, describe major dimensions on which they differ, and introduce a national plan for a "Grand Challenges for Social Work" initiative, initiated by a consortium of social work scholars and to be led by the American Academy for Social Work and Social Welfare. Next steps will be discussed.
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