The Palliative Care Social Worker: Opportunities for Collaboration, Triage, Education and Outreach Wednesday, September 15, 2010

1:30-2:30 PM Eastern

Sponsored by the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC).

Join Philip Higgins, MSSW, LICSW, Director of Palliative Care Outreach at Dana Farber/Brigham & Women’s Cancer Center and Jane Knowles, MPH, LCSW Clinical Social Worker at The Lilian and Benjamin Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute as they discuss how to identify several models of collaboration, triage and education for times when team census is high, as well as strategies for effective case finding and outreach when census is low.

Learning Objectives:

• Distinguish between specialist and generalist social work skill sets in palliative care, identifying those triggers that highlight the need for specialist-level intervention.
• Describe several forms of collaboration and/or triage between palliative care social work and unit– or team-based social workers.
• Identify several models of peer education on issues pertaining to psychosocial aspects of palliative care, opportunities for case finding and outreach afforded by the palliative care social worker’s unique skill set.

Grant-funding for New York State: New York State hospitals, and hospices with an established hospital palliative care program partnership, are eligible to enroll at no cost. This funding is made possible by a grant awarded to CAPC from the New York State Health Foundation.  Funding from this grant is available for this audio conference.   For more information visit www.capc.org/grantees

To learn more and register, go to: http://www.capc.org/support-from-capc/audio-conf/09-15-10/index_html