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Preparing future aging advocates
— the Oklahoma Aging Advocacy Leadership Academy | | Author(s) | Patricia Baker, Judy Leitner, William J McAuley |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 41, no 3, June 2001 |
| Pages | pp 394-400 |
| Keywords | Advocacy ; Voluntary workers ; Voluntary work [elderly] ; Training [elderly workers] ; Training [welfare work] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The Oklahoma Aging Advocacy Leadership Academy was designed to ensure the continuation of future cohorts of advocates and volunteers for ageing programmes and services. Curriculum for the 10-week course incorporates age-related content and advocacy, leadership, and voluntary skills training. Evaluation consisted of: a pre-post assessment of perceived familiarity with advocacy and voluntary leadership issues; post-Academy participant assessments of the quality of the Academy's work; post-Academy written statements about areas that were valuable or needed changing; and a compilation of student and volunteer activities. Evaluation results indicate that the OAALA led to significant increases in perceived familiarity with issues, and very positive participant assessments of quality. Many participants also spontaneously initiated advocacy and volunteer activities while enrolled in the Academy, confirming the OAALA's success in preparing people as old-age advocates and volunteer leaders. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010718221 A |
| Classmark | IQ: QV: GHH: GF: QW: 7T |
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