The Critical Workforce Issues plenary session will set the stage for the in-depth workshop discussions on the growing labor force crisis at home and abroad. Panel discussion will explore the challenges plaquing the health and human services industry –who will care for our “aging society”. This comprehensive discussion will explore the cutting edge approaches to recruitment, retention, retooling, policy/advocacy.
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Panel Moderators: Cynthia Stuen, PhD/DSW, Board Chair, American Society on Aging -Senior Vice President/Policy, Lighthouse International
William T. Smith, PhD, President and CEO, Aging in America - Past Chair, American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging
Panelists:
Jane Barratt, PhD, Secretary General, International Federation on Ageing View Topic
Michael Burgess, Director, New York State Office for the Aging
Joshua Weiner, PhD, Senior Fellow and Program Director, Aging, Disability, and Long-Term Care, RTI International View Topic
Morning Sessions (11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.)
Workshop l -Future Healthcare Workforce in Integrated Settings
The sheer volume of older adults patients threatens
to overwhelm the number of physicians and other professionals, unless more is
done to ensure an adequate supply. This workshop will examine the challenges
facing the current and future healthcare workforce that must respond to “the
aging of a diverse America.” (Institute of Medicine, 2008 Retooling for an Aging America)
Panel Moderator: Daniel Reingold, JD, MSW, CEO and President, Hebrew Home for the Aged At Riverdale
Workshop Panelists:
Thomas C. Rosenthal, MD, Director, New York Area Health Education Center Program View Topic
Robert Hudson, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Social Policy, Boston University Graduate School of Social Work
Richard N. Gottfried, New York State Assembly Member
Workshop ll -Long-Term Care Options
Building a viable workforce for the multifaceted approach to long–term care options create major challenges in the delivery of service. The variety of community-based services and long-term care facilities need a highly skilled and trained labor force with particular competencies to care for the aging population. The panel will explore the approaches to the critical issue of recruitment, retention, retooling, policy/ advocacy in sustaining future long-term care options.
Panel Moderator: Richard Mollot, Esq. Executive Director, Long Term Care Community Coalition
Workshop Panelists:
Mark Kator, President and CEO, Isabella Geriatric Center
Ann Wyatt, MSW, Coordinator, Cobble Hill-Isabella Collaboration Project
Helen Eltzeroth, MS, Deputy Director, Programs and Communications, National Association of Area Agencies on Aging
Workshop lll -Labor Force Challenges in Social Work
The National Institute of Aging estimates the nation will require 70,000 trained, “aging savvy” professional social workers by 2020 (a 43% increase over the current social work labor force), though fewer than 3% of social work students currently specialize in aging. It is crucial that social workers are not only trained in the field of aging, but that they develop skills to become leaders to meet these expanding needs. (Social Work Leadership Institute, New York Academy of Medicine) The panel will probe the problem of social work shortage and its implications across the age continuum and the disability communities. Another major component of the labor force challenge is the need for multi-lingual, ethnic, cultural and sexual orientation in the social work profession. What measures are needed to close the workforce gap as we prepare for the “age tidal wave?”
Panel Moderator:Peter Vaughan, PhD. Dean, Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service
Workshop Panelists:
Nancy D. Miller, LMSW, ACSW, Executive Director and CEO, VISIONS/Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Patricia Volland, MSW, MBA, Senior Vice President for Strategy and Business Development and Director, Social Work Leadership, New York Academy of Medicine View Topic
Martha C. Bial, PhD. Director Fordham University, Japanese and American Institute in Gerontology.View Topic
Workshop lV - Crisis in the Nursing Workforce
The growing nursing shortage threatens access to health care and quality of care across the nation. The United States is experiencing a critical nursing shortage that is projected to last into the foreseeable future. Projections show that the shortage could grow as large as 500,000 nurses by 2025 (Buerhaus et al, 2008). HRSA (2006) projections predicted the shortage could reach as high as 1 million nurses by 2020.
The panel will explore the dire nursing workforce shortage and offer best approaches and strategies that address the need for greater funding to support expanded nursing education programs, prepare more nursing faculty, increase nursing leadership role in advocacy and support diversity in the nursing profession. These factors are the critical lynchpins needed to support nursing in America.
Panel Moderator: Anderson Torres, PhD, LCSW-R, Westchester Regional Director, Visiting Nurse Service of New York
Workshop Panelists:
Brenda L. Cleary, PhD, RN, FAAN, Director, Center to Champion Nursing in America View Topic
Tara Cortes, PhD, RN, President and CEO, Lighthouse International View Topic
Christine Moore, Associate Director, Governmental Affairs, New York State Nurses Association View Topic
Afternoon Sessions (1:45 - 3:00 p.m.)
Workshop V -Philanthropy’s Role in Workforce Development
Foundations have always served in the role of social change agents. They seek to find effective remedies for challenges communities and societies face such as workforce development in aging services. This workshop will bring together grantmakers to discuss best practices being implemented around the country to tackle this challenge. They will also share their perspectives and describe how, as social change agents, foundations can take a pivotal role in addressing this growing and complex issue.
Panel Moderator: Len McNally, Program Director, Health and People with Special Needs, New York Community Trust
Workshop Panelists:
James O' Sullivan MPH, Program Officer, Formerly of the John A. Hartford Foundation
Stacey Easterling, Program Executive, Atlantic Philanthropies
Julio Urbina, PhD, Senior Program Officer, The Fan-Fox and Leslie R. Samuelson Foundation
Workshop Vl- Intergenerational Strategies
The demograpic shift towards an aging tsunami is also a clarion call for new professionals and para-professionals to fill the widening workforce gap. Intentional efforts to expose youth to seniors and careers in aging services through intergenerational programs can help to address this issue. This session will demonstrate how creative intergenerational programs not only bring youth and older people together in mutually beneficial activities, when designed to do so, intergenerational programs can open a new world of opportunites for students thus enhancing their career options.
Panel Moderator:Kevin Brabazon, President and Founder, New York State Intergenerational Network
Workshop Panelists:
Nancy Henkin, PhD, Founder and Executive Director, Temple University's Center for Intergenerational Learning
Donna Butts, Executive Director, GenerationsUnited
Jean Coppola, PhD. Assistant Professor,Pace University, Westchester Alliance of Academic Institution for Aging-Related Studies and Workforce Development
Workshop Vll- Finding Solutions through Research
Evidence- based research continues to be the seminal tool for identifying the latest trends, forecasts and best practices in workforce development. Research provides a vital role in developing advocacy agendas in helping to create legislation and policies. This session will address the cutting-edge research in the areas of workforce recruitment, retention, retooling and policy/advocacy from a national, state and local perspective. The panel will address the findings from the State Society on Aging/New York State Office for the Aging "Working with Older Adults: Charting the Future of Workforce Training and Education in New York Workforce Listening Sessions, and the groundbreaking research on boomers in the workforce. The panel will also present data findings from the Jewish Home Lifecare’s Geriatric Career Development Program, a career development program for local high school students interesting in pursuing careers in healthcare.
Panel Moderator: Janna Heyman, PhD, Associate Director, Fordham University Ravazzin Center on Aging
Workshop Panelists:
Sandra Timmerman, EdD, Director, MetLife Mature Market Institute View Topic
Cara Unowsky, MA, Senior Manager, Strategic Planning for The Jewish Home and Hospital LifeCare System View Topic
Jennifer Rosenbaum, MS, Director, Bureau of Policy Analyst, Research and Management, NYS Office for the Aging View Topic
Vlll - Workforce in Transition
The challenges of the changing workforce demographics and the new demands of the workplace represent the perfect storm. These vital components require more innovative approaches and greater flexibility in meeting the needs of the labor force of the future. This workshop will examine the influence of the labor force cohort of Boomers, Generations X and Y and the Millennial on the work place.
Panel Moderator: Barbara Silverstone, DSW, SBW Partners
Workshop Panelists:
Phyllis Weiss Haserot, Practice Development Counsel Consulting, Coach to the Next Generation View Topic
Marsha Lynch, Manager, Workforce Initiative New York, New Jersey, Florida, CVSCaremark
Jess Geevarghese, MBA, MSW, Program Officer, ReServe View Topic
Plenary Session (8:30-10:45a.m.)