Professional Development and Training
We offer regular opportunities to help social workers learn new skills and advance in their careers:
- Health promotion facilitator training: ÍÑÒÂÖ±²¥ in Chicago offers training opportunities for individuals interested in becoming facilitators of its evidence-based health promotion programming, including Take Charge of Your Health, Take Charge of Your Diabetes and A Matter of Balance. For more information, contact Grisel Rodriguez-Morales at grisel_rodriguez-morales@rush.edu or (312) 942-2093.
- Social work internships: ÍÑÒÂÖ±²¥ in Chicago offers internship opportunities for master's degree-level students in social work. For more information, please contact (800) 757-0202.
- Assessing decisional capacity training: Rush offers an online continuing education course designed to help you assess your patients' decision-making capacities. Learn about the course and register.
Rush-led Professional Initiatives
Rush social workers are local and national leaders in the areas of older adult care, social work and social work education, and social and healthcare policy. Our initiatives include the following:
- National Coalition for Care Coordination (NC3)
Affiliations
We regularly work with organizations across the Chicago area and the nation:
- Council for Social Work Education GeroEd Center
Professional Associations
We belong to, and help advance the work of, the leading professional associations in social work and older adult care: