Training and other initiatives

For the past 10 years we have received training grants from the feds and
several foundations to train faculty to become directors of their own Adult
Health & Development Program, and part of the National Network for
Intergenerational Health (see www.inform.umd.edu/AHDP). Unfortunately,
a recent grant did not materialize.

There is another way to develop an AHDP, if interested, and that is through a fee-for-service arrangement. I would be happy to discuss with interested parties a 2 to 2 1/2 day workshop to be held during the summer at your site. It would be for faculty and others who will assume a leadership role in developing your own AHDP. Participant sites receive two training manuals, and a videotape.

A 2 day workshop can be run during the fall 2001 and spring 2002.

Lectures and/or workshops on the following topics may be of interest. If so, contact me:

• Applying gerontological health theory and practice in a national service learning, higher education program
• The greatest health threat of our time - Horrendous Death - and what to do about it
• The role of higher education in solving social problems
• You wish your children to live both long and well? Toward action
• The relationship between Death Education and health and well-being or death as a stimulus to life
• What is "successful" or optimal aging?
• Working with the dying person
• Working with the bereaved person
• What everyone should know about suicide
• Intergenerational, service-learning programs: A means to tighten the social fabric
• What the death educated person should know until dead

I can best be reached by phone at 301, 445-1546.

Dan
 

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Dr. Daniel Leviton
Director, The Adult Health & Development Program
Center on Aging
College of Health & Human Performance
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-2611
Phone: (301) 405-2528; Fax: (301) 445-1546