ACES Community Engagement Project
Partnership Training Skills: Connecting MSW and BSW Students on Two UH Campuses
- ACES Community Engagement
The Advancing Community Engagement and Service Institute (ACES) was launched in October
2017 with the vision to deepen student learning through direct community service planning
and implementation. The Graduate College of Social Work (GCSW) received an ACES grant
to implement a project, “Partnership Training Skills: Connecting MSW and BSW Students
in Two UH Campuses,” led by Principal Investigator Dr. Monit Cheung. From Spring 2019
to Summer 2021, a service learning course (“Partnership Training Skills” or PTS) was
planned and delivered to infuse child welfare contents into the Master of Social Work
(MSW) curriculum and to encourage Title IV-E students to work in practice projects
with Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) students from the University of Houston-Downtown
(UHD).
Left to Right: Dr. Dawn McCarty (UH-D), Dr. Trish Taylor (UH), Dr. Monit Cheung (UH),
Ms. Arnitia Walker (UH), Dr. Renita Laury (UH)
- Project Videos
- Community Engagement Courses: Partnership Training Skills (PTS)
- PTS Course in Summer 2019 and scholarship recipients
- PTS Course in Summer 2021 and scholarship recipients
- PTS Course in Summer 2022 and scholarship recipients
- PTS Courses (scholarship opportunities to be announced)
- Evaluations
- Research
- Chen, X., Huang, Y., McCarty, D., Hou, L., Cheung, M., Walker, A., & Taylor, P. (2021). Partnership Training Skills: Service learning as leadership training in a BSW/MSW collaboration project. Juried “oral communication” presentation, Joint World Conference on Social Work Education and Social Development, Rimini, Italy. June 28 to July 1
- Virtual oral presentation for the International Social Work Education & Development online conference, March 16-18, 2021.
- Video presentation (9:03 mins)