The Tanzania Institute of Social Work (ISW) is partnering with Jane Addams College of Social Work (JACSW) and the Midwest AIDS Training and Education Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago to strengthen ISW’s pre-and in-service social work training programs.
Partners are working to address Tanzania’s immediate and long-term needs for trained social workers who can provide care and support to orphans and vulnerable children (OVC). Specific objectives include strengthening the role of social workers as case managers and increasing the capacity of community volunteers to access resources for improving care for OVCs.
To this end, the partnership is building ISW’s capacity to deliver high quality pre- and in-service social work education, particularly in the areas of HIV/AIDS and OVC care through:
- curriculum development;
- joint
teaching curriculum;
- enhanced student fieldwork
placement and supervision;
- exchange of educational materials and training resources;
- faculty development for teaching and targeted evaluation; and
- the development and institutionalization of an in-service certificate program for para-professional case managers to serve the needs of OVC.
Partners are also helping strengthen the capacity of the Tanzania Social Work Association to serve as an advocacy body for social workers.
As of May 2009, partners have trained more than 700 para-social workers and 75 district social workers from Dar es Salaam, Dodoma, Iringa, Lindi, Mbeya, Morogoro, and Mtwara. These community workers
provide care and support to orphans and vulnerable children and families by linking them to much-needed assistance. Partners also trained 40 master trainers in the para-social work curriculum and 75 para-social worker supervisors are now in place at the municipal level, thus bolstering
sustainable local capacity to better meet the needs of vlunerable children and families.
Key training resources and tools developed through the project include:
Learning to Work with Orphans and Vulnerable Children: A Training Manual for Para-Social Workers (Participants Manual)
Introduction to Learning to Work with Orphans and Vulnerable Children: A Workshop for Para-Social Workers (Training of Trainers Manual)
Learning to Work with Orphans and Vulnerable Children (Day 1 training slides)
Learning to Work with Orphans and Vulnerable Children: Developmental, Legal, and Ethical Issues (Day 2 training slides)
Learning to Work with Orphans and Vulnerable Children: Engaging OVC and Their Families (Day 3 training slides)
Learning to Work with Orphans and Vulnerable Children: The Social Work Process for Working with Children and Families Affected by HIV/AIDS, Part I (Day 4 training slides)
Learning to Work with Orphans and Vulnerable Children: The Social Work Process for Working with Children and Families Affected by HIV/AIDS, Part II (Day 5 training slides)
Learning to Work with Orphans and Vulnerable Children: The Social Work Process for Working with Children and Families Affected by HIV/AIDS,
Part III (Day 6 training slides)
Learning to Work with Orphans and Vulnerable Children: The Social Work Process for Working with Children and Families Affected by HIV/AIDS,
Part IV (Day 7 training slides)
Learning to Work with Orphans and Vulnerable Children: Parenting and Supporting Families (Day 8 training slides)
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