Association for Gerontology Education in Social Work (AGESW)
AGESW provides leadership and assistance to social work educational programs and professionals to advocate for the integration of gerontological content in undergraduate and social work education.
Association for Gerontology in Higher Education (AGHE)
The Association for Gerontology in Higher Education is a membership organization of colleges and universities that offer education, training, and research programs in the field of aging.
Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)
The Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) regulates social work by developing and maintaining the social work licensing examination used across the country. ASWB is a central resource for information on the legal regulation of social work. It can help individual social workers and social work students with questions they may have about licensing and the social work examinations.
Eldercare Workforce Alliance (EWA)
The Eldercare Workforce Alliance (EWA) is a group of 29 national organizations, joined together to address the immediate and future workforce crisis in caring for an aging America.
Geriatric Social Work Initiative (GSWI)
The Geriatric Social Work Initiative (GSWI), supported by the John A. Hartford Foundation and housed within GSA, collaborates with social work education programs to prepare needed, aging-savvy social workers and improve the care and well-being of older adults and their families. Additionally, the GSWI YouTube channel contains short interview clips with Dr. Jim Lubben, Dr. Nancy Morrow-Howell, and Faculty Scholars.
Gerontological Society of America (GSA)
GSA provides researchers, educators, practitioners, and policy makers with opportunities to understand, advance, integrate, and use basic and applied research on aging to improve the quality of life as one ages.
Institute for Geriatric Social Work (IGSW)
IGSW is dedicated to advancing social work practice with older adults and their families. IGSW has issue briefs on current geriatric social work research and trends.
John A. Hartford Foundation
America's leading philanthropy committed to health care, training, research, and service system innovations that will ensure the well-being and vitality of older adults.
National Association of Social Workers (NASW)
NASW, with 150,000 members in 56 chapters, is the largest professional association of social workers in the United States. The association works to promote professional development, establish professional standards of social work practice and advance sound social policies. The NASW website also features Help Starts Here, a page that contains information on the different ways social workers can help during the aging process.
Social Work Leadership Institute (SWLI)
The Social Work Leadership Institute (SWLI) at The New York Academy of Medicine is working to train and grow the national workforce of social workers who specialize in aging, and to improve long-term, community-based care for older adults through policy advocacy, education and training, leadership development, and research.