The University of South Florida partnered with the Department of Veterans Affairs in a five-year $291,221 contract (one year with four option years) to offer GPD providers an opportunity to revise their program designs using a Low Demand/Harm Reduction model to better accommodate chronically homeless Veterans with substance use and/or mental health disorders who were unsuccessful with traditional housing programs. Under the direction of Dr. Scott Young (Principal Investigator) and Mr. Paul Smits (Senior Policy Analyst) this project will design, implement, evaluate, refine, and provide technical assistance to GPD housing programs that are converting all or a portion of their beds to a Low Demand model. Low demand programs do not place sobriety or treatment participation requirements on residents for admission to and continued stay in the programs, but they expect residents to make steps towards securing permanent housing solutions. Minor infractions (e.g., curfew) are not typically grounds for dismissal from Low Demand programs, though such instances are used as opportunities to engage Veterans. Case management and motivational interviewing strategies are used to help engage residents over time.

The USF School of Social Work is proud to celebrate its 40th Anniversary this year. This event will celebrate our 40 years of social work education at USF by honoring distinguished alumni that have impacted our School and communities we serve. There will be a panel of executive level community partners discussing trends in the future of social work. Funds raised at this event will be invested in the future of the USF School of Social Work by increasing the Social Work Student Scholarship Fund.
 

9:00am-10:30am
Sam and Martha Gibbons Alumni Center - Tampa Campus
 

If you are interested in learning about employment supports and services for people with intellectual and other developmental disabilities, don't miss this event. Each presenter will discuss their organization's employment supports and services for this population
 

12:30 - 5:30 pm
MHC 2129 

Charlotta Nilsen, MS, will present "The Role of Midlife Work Stressors in Health and Aging" on Wednesday, November 9, 2016 at 12:00pm in MHC 1506. Charlotta is a Doctoral student at the Aging Research Center, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. She holds a master's degree in gerontology and bachelor's degree in public health science with a focus on gender, epidemiology, and health economics. Charlotta's research focus is psychosocial work environment, in particular work stressors and a variety of coping mechanisms in late midlife related to health and mortality in older adulthood.