MASTER
MASTER (Multi-disciplinary Adult Services Training and Evaluation for Results) is a training program designed to provide a competency-based multidisciplinary training to Adult Services workers and their partners. Our overarching goal is the professionalization of Adult Service workers to ensure that abused and vulnerable elders receive high quality, effective interventions and services.
MASTER has developed in partnership with state and national organizations a nationally recognized Core Competency Training Curriculum for Adult Protective Service workers. This curriculum is reviewed and approved by experts in the theoretical, practice, policy, and administrative issues of elder and dependent adult abuse.
MASTER is also expanding its services to address the training needs of In-home Supportive Services workers, Ombudsman, and Public Guardians.
NEWS and UPDATES
To read the Winter 2012 MASTERing Elder Abuse newsletter, click here.
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Worker Safety for the APS Supervisor is now available to download on the Webinar Library page.
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Supervisor's Role in the Transfer of Learning to the Workplace is now available on the Supervisor Training page.
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Core eLearning:
- The Aging Process eLearning is now available. Click here for more information.
Core Competency Curriculum Development
MASTER and the Statewide APS Project have collaborated to develop an Issue Brief explaining the pressing need for standardized Core Competency training for APS workers.
Click here to download a copy of the Issue Brief
One by one, each of the National Adult Protective Services Association’s 23 Core Competencies is examined by skilled APS workers and experts in the field to determine specific learning objectives. MASTER staff then work with nationally recognized experts to develop evidence-based curriculum that builds on adult learning theory and teaches to the identified learning objectives. Once drafted, each curriculum is reviewed by curriculum advisory committees composed of APS workers, supervisors, and managers to ensure the training will meet the needs of APS workers in the field. Each curricula is piloted-tested, evaluated, revised, and then made available for use in training.
See Menu of Core Competency APS Training Modules
Our Partners
Organizations involved in the development of training include:
Academy for Professional Excellence, and MASTER which are projects of San Diego State University School of Social Work.
Center of Excellence on Elder Abuse and Neglect , University of California, Irvine
National Adult Protective Services Association (NAPSA)
California Social Work Education Center Aging Initiative, UC Berkeley
Our Funders
Funding for the National Adult Protective Services Training Partners has been generously provided by:
- Administration on Aging, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- Archstone Foundation
- California Department of Social Services, Adult Services Branch
- University of California Irvine, Center of Excellence on Elder Abuse and Neglect
- Office of Victims of Crime, Office of Justice Programs, United States Department of Justice
- California State University, Sacramento, In-Home Supportive Services Social Work Training Project
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