Yeshiva University’s Wurzweiler School of Social Work has been awarded a $230,762 federal grant from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare’s National Institute of Mental Health towards a seven year experimental demonstration program in cooperation with the Associated YM-YWHAs of Greater New York, it was announced here today.
Dr. Morton I. Teicher, dean of the School, said that while the program may be extended to the entire network of services maintained by the Associated Ys, the initial phase of the project will concentrate on one center, the East Flatbush-Rugby Y, in Brooklyn. The project plans to experiment with new structural links between agency and school similar to the “medical school-teaching hospital” relationship. The School is currently conducting a three-year cooperative program begun last year with the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan.
“While the Associated Ys and the Wurzweiler School blazed some new trails in the area of research cooperation,” Dr. Teicher said, “both organizations are interested in developing new horizons and methods for meeting the needs of the community and the needs of social work education. The project should yield a new prototype which can serve as a model throughout the field for the enhancement of social work service and education.”
The program, in effect, seeks to bring the School directly into the arena of agency operation through the social work students’ closer experience with group work, casework, community organization, research, program and agency administration and community planning. Wurzweiler School of Social Work, the first university-based social work program under Jewish auspices, was established in 1957. Its two-year program of study, with concentrations in social group work and social casework, leads to the master of social work degree.
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