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Education: B.S.W., University of Manitoba, Canada. M.S.W., University of Manitoba, Canada. Ph.D., Public Health and Social Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago. Experience: Dr. Jurkowski was previously an Assistant Professor at the University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada. She has held administrative and research positions for The Illinois Public Health Leadership Institute at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Jurkowski began her social work career working with people who have cognitive and developmental disabilities and supporting these people to develop community social, recreation and leisure skills. Her philosophy of "community integration" and "citizen participation" evolved into vocational and residential settings, and included case management and administrative positions in vocational rehabilitation, and residential settings, serving people with disabilities for the Department of Health and Family Services, Province of Manitoba. Dr. Jurkowski was a "Great Cities" Research Fellow in Health and examined strategies for community needs assessment in the United States and Canada, using citizen participation and traditional needs assessments. She has also served as a program evaluation consultant in a range of public and private settings in developed and developing contexts to include countries such as Canada, the United States, India, Niger and Hong Kong. Teaching areas: Social Work Theory, Research Methods, Social Policy, Community Health, Aging and Disablement. RESEARCH AND CREATIVE ACTIVITY A. Interests and Specialties: Health/ Mental Health, Disability, Mental health access and service utilization in rural areas. HONORS And AWARDS 1996 Community Research Fellowship in Health, The Great Cities Institute, University of IL at Chicago, The Hilda B. & Maurice L. Rothschild Foundation and United Way Crusade of Mercy. 1997 Who's Who in Academia International. 1999 International Women of the Year for recognition of services in Public Health and Social Work - awarded by the International Biographical Center, Cambridge, England 2003 Community Leadership Award from The Illinois Department of Public Health, Division of Oral Health; I Floss Coalition and IL Public Health Association. 2005 Institute on Aging and Social Work – Fellowship funded through the National Institute on Aging in collaboration with the College of St. Scholastica, Duluth, MN and the Gerontological Society on Aging. 2006 Recipient of “Best of Show Poster Award” awarded to ten peer reviewed scientific posters in Munich, Germany at the International Federation of Social Workers biannual meeting. PUBLICATIONS AND CREATIVE WORKS A. Books: Jurkowski, E.T. (2007). Instructors Guide: Program planning and Policy Development for Older Adults: Realities and Visions. New York, NY: Springer Publications. (81 pages)
Lautar, C.J., & Jurkowski, E.T. (2007). Bridging disciplines through service-learning. Academic Exchange Quarterly. 11 (1) 210-217. Jurkowski, E.T. (2006) Substance Abuse and older Adults: Issues and Solutions for policy and practice impacting older adults in rural communities.The Gerontologist.46, (I).590-591. Green, C., Patel, D., Walls, T., & Jurkowski, E.T. (2006). Rural Baby Boomers: Are we prepared to meet the health needs of our Baby Boom cohort? The Gerontologist.46 (I). 603. Greene, C., Patel, D., Walls, T. & Jurkowski, E. (2005). Senior
Centers and nutrition sites: Are we Jurkowski, E. (2005). Multidisciplinary intervention for mental
health and substance abuse services Jurkowski, E.T. (2005). Depression and Dementia are not normal components of the Aging Process. The Networker, May, 2005 Jurkowski, E.T. (2005). Are depression and dementia normal components
of the aging process? NY Jurkowski, E. T. (2004) Mental health is not a normal part of aging:
Assessing for mental health Jurkowski, E.T, Jovanovic, B. & Rowitz, L. (2002). Leadership/Citizen
Participation: Access to Perkins, S. Jurkowski, E., Judd, M., & Teaff, J.(2002). Therapeutic
recreation and Gerontology Beebe, S., Lauter, C., & Jurkowski, E. (2002). Comparison of
Children’s Oral Health in a rural Jurkowski, E.T. (2001). Policies, Programs and Services for Older
Adults and People with Jurkowski, E. & Tracy, M.., (2000). Social policy and the aged:
Implications for health planning, VanRooyan, M. Erickson, T., Jones, P.W., Townes, D.A., Jurkowski,
E. & Levy, P.(1997). The re Jurkowski, E. (1995). "Lifelong Journey's" A Family Life
and Sexuality Guide for People with Jurkowski, E. (1994). The Al Carter Youth Foundation. Cultural
Diversity/ Minority Health in Jurkowski, E. (1994). The Canadian Health Care System: A Model
for the Development of a Jurkowski, E. (1993). Recap on Grantsmanship Workshop - Going for
the Gold! Leadership in Editorial: Published Abstracts: Jurkowski, E.T. (2006) Substance Abuse and older Adults: Issues and Solutions for policy and practice impacting older adults in rural communities. The Gerontologist.46, (I).590-591. Green, C., Patel, D., Walls, T., & Jurkowski, E.T. (2006). Rural Baby Boomers: Are we prepared to meet the health needs of our Baby Boom cohort? The Gerontologist.46 (I). 603. Jurkowski, E. (October, 2005). Multidisciplinary intervention for
mental health and substance abuse services for older in rural communities.
The Gerontoligist.45(II). 144. Jurkowski, E. (2005). Planning for mental health, elder abuse and
substance abuse services in rural Jurkowski, E. (2003) Mental health and aging systems integration
(MHASI): A model for Jurkowski, E. (2002). Mental health and aging systems integration project: Outcomes and impacts f or rural elderly. The Gerontologist. 42, Special issue 1. 351. Beebe, S., Lautar, C., Jurkowski, E. (2002). Comparison of Children’s
Oral Health in a Rural Based Creative Contributions: Proceedings: Jurkowski, E., & Welch, P. (2002). Integrating curriculum content
on disability within Social Work Jurkowski, E. & Welch, T. (2000) Status of disability content
in social work curricula: A cross Jurkowski, E. (1989). Sexuality and Family Life Education for Adults
with Developmental Jurkowski, E. (1988). A Sexuality and Family Life Curriculum for
People with Disabilities: D. Chapters in Professional Books: Jurkowski, E. & Kemp, M. (2004). Assisted Living, Social Work
Practice & the Elderly, appearing Jurkowski, E. & Tracy M. (2001). Trends in International Research,
Chapter 14 appearing in Rowitz, L. & Jurkowski, E. (1994). The Myths and Realities
of Depression and Down Syndrome. Jurkowski, E. & Amado, A. (1993). Affection, Love, Intimacy
and Sexual Relationships. In Garwick, G. & Jurkowski, E. (1992). Evaluation of HIV Prevention
and Self-Protection Training E. Book Reviews: Jurkowski, E. (2006). Challenges of aging on US families: Policy and practice implications.(Edited by Caputo, R. C.). Social Work Agenda, 24 (2). 15-16. Jurkowski, E. (1994). Servant Leadership (author Robert Greenleaf).
Leadership in Public Health. Papers and Presentations at International Meetings: International 2007 Jurkowski, E. Preparing social workers for the graying population:
Curriculum, competencies and strategies for educating Social Workers
on Aging Issues. A plenary presentation to the International Conference
on Social Work Collaboration, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt, March
10. 2006 Jurkowski, E. “Promoting Mental Health of Older Adults
in Rural Communities: 2006 Reichert, E. & Jurkowski, E. “Balancing the act:
Preparing social work practitioners to deal with older adults and
the demographic shift towards an aging society”. A roundtable
presentation in Munich, Germany for the International Federation
of Social Workers, July 31. 2003 Jurkowski, E. Mental health and aging systems integration (MHASI): A model for Gero-Psychiatric service delivery in rural and frontier communities. Paper presentation to the Eleventh Congress of the International Psycho-geriatric Association, Chicago, Illinois, August 21. 2003 Jurkowski, E., Warner, L., Williams, R., Suro, J., & Williams, T. Systems integration: Organizational and systemic factors which impact mental health services for older adults in rural communities. Paper presentation to the Eleventh Congress of the International Psycho-geriatric Association, Chicago, Illinois, August 21. 2003 Jurkowski, E. Physician/provider perspectives toward mental health services and older adults living in rural communities. Paper presentation to the Eleventh Congress of the International Psycho-geriatric Association, Chicago, Illinois, August 21. 2002 Gammon, A., & Jurkowski, E. The KVS Model: Utilizing the recipient community to develop social work practice curricula. Paper Presentation for The International Association of Schools of Social Work, Montpellier France, July 17. 2002 Jurkowski, E., & Welch, P. Integrating curriculum content on disability within Social Work curricula: A model and tools for curriculum building. Paper presentation for The International Association of Schools of Social Work, Montpellier, France, July 17. 2000 Citizen Participation: Perceived impact on access to services. Implications for Community Participative Rehabilitation and human rights. Plenary speech for Rehabilitation Coordination India : “Community Participative Rehabilitation and Human Rights for People with Disabilities”, National Conference, Delhi, India. 2000 Status of Disability Content in Social Work Curricula: A
Cross National Comparison. Joint Conference of the International
Federation of Social Workers and the International Association of
Schools of Social Work. Montreal, Quebec with Trish Welch. 1999 St. Amant Center’s 8th Annual Research Conference on Developmental Disabilities. Plenary session entitled: “The New Millennium...Re-engineering 21st Century Services based upon 20th Century trends, best practices and lessons learned. A historical and conceptual analysis of services for people with developmental disabilities in Canada.” 1995 International Association of Societies for Persons with Mental
Disability. New Delhi, India. “Sexuality and Family Life Education
for People with Developmental Disabilities: The Knowledge, Attitude
and Behavioural Approach (KAB)”. 1992 International Conference on Sexuality and Disability, Tel Aviv, Israel. "Lifelong Journey's" A Family Life and Sexuality Guide for People with Developmental Disabilities”. 1989 9th Asian Conference on Mental Retardation, Bangkok, Thailand. “Sexuality and Family Life Education for Adults with Developmental Disabilities: Strategies for Effectiveness”. 1988 World Congress of Rehabilitation International, Tokyo, Japan. “A Sexuality and Family Life Curriculum for People with Developmental Disabilities: Strategies for the Non-reader” National 2007 Jurkowski, E.T. & Okino, T. Access to Mental Health Care within the “Same Ball Park”: Multidisciplinary Practice between physicians, service providers and Social Workers. A poster presentation at the Society for Social Work Research Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, January 18. 2006 Jurkowski, E.T. “Substance Abuse and older Adults: Issues
and Solutions for policy 2006 Green, C., Patel, D., Walls, T., & Jurkowski, E.T. “Rural
Baby Boomers: Are we 2006 Lautar, C.J., Jurkowski, E.T. & Okino, T., “Preparing the Oral Health Workforce for Advocacy within Multidisciplinary Settings Using Community Outreach Activities. A poster presentation at the American Public Health Association 134th Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, November 7. 2006 Jurkowski, E.T. “The impact of health disparities on mental health service utilization for older adults”. A roundtable presentation at the American Public Health Association 134th Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, November 8. 2006 Jurkowski, E.T. Substance abuse and older adults: Issues and solutions for rural communities. A roundtable presentation at the American Public Health Association 134th Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, November 9. 2006 Green, C., Patel, D., Walls, T., & Jurkowski, E.T. Preparing Senior Nutrition Sites for Baby Boomers in Rural Communities Paper presentation at the National Forum for Gerontological Social Work, 5th Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, February 18. 2006 Jurkowski, E.T. “Substance Abuse and Older Adults: Issues and Solutions for Rural Communities”. Paper presentation at the National Forum for Gerontological Social Work, 5th Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL February 18. 2005 Jurkowski, E.T. & Okino, T. “Promoting Mental Health
of Older Adults: 2005 Okino T. & Jurkowski, E. Promoting Mental Health of Older Adults: The Consumer’s Perspective. A poster presentation to the National Annual Social Work Gerontological Conference in New York City, New York, March 1. 2005 Jurkowski, E.T. Preparing our workforce: The Consumers’ Perspective. A poster presentation to the National Annual Social Work Gerontological Conference in New York City, New York, February 28. 2005 Multidisciplinary intervention for mental health and substance abuse services for older adults in rural communities: The consumers’ perception. A paper presentation to the Gerontological Society of America Annual meeting, November 19, 2006, Orlando, FL. 2005 Mental Health and Aging Systems Integration Project. A paper presentation to the Gerontological Society of America Annual meeting, November 20, 2006, Orlando, FL. 2005 Nutrition Site and Senior Centers: Are we meeting the needs of our Baby Boom cohort? A poster presentation with Cherie Green, Teresa Walls and Deenaz Patel to the Gerontological Society of America Annual meeting, November 20, 2006, Orlando, FL. 2005 Access to mental health care for older adults: Perceptions from rural based physicians, providers and consumers. Are we all in the same ball park? A poster presentation with Tsukasa Okino presented at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, December 13, Philadelphia, PA. 2005 Mental health and substance abuse services for older adults in rural communities: The consumers’ perception. A paper presentation to the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, December 13, Philadelphia, PA. 2005 Mental health issues for older adults in rural communities: Consumers’ perception and its role in service utilization. A paper presentation to the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, December 12, Philadelphia, PA. 2005 Evidence based public health and health policy development. A paper presentation to the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, December 14, Philadelphia, PA. 2005 Preparing the oral health workforce for multidisciplinary collaboration utilizing evidence base practices and service learning activities. A paper presentation with Charla J. Lautar to the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, December 13, Philadelphia, PA. 2005 Lautar, C. & Jurkowski, E. Preparation for Collaborative Multidisciplinary Practice in Rural Communities. A poster presentation for the Illinois Rural Health Association, April 14, 15, 2004, Effingham, Illinois 2005 Jurkowski, E.T., Promoting Mental Health of Older Adults in Rural Communities: The Consumer’s Perspective. An oral presentation for the Illinois Rural Health Association, April 15, 2005, Effingham, Illinois. 2005 Okino T. & Jurkowski, E. Promoting Mental Health of Older Adults: The Consumer’s Perspective. A poster presentation to the National Annual Social Work Gerontological Conference in New York City, New York, March 1. 2005 Jurkowski, E.T. Preparing our workforce: The Consumers’ Perspective. A poster presentation to the National Annual Social Work Gerontological Conference in New York City, New York, February 28. 2004 Jurkowski, E. Integrating disability within curriculum for public health and allied health professionals' academic preparation. A paper presentation to the American Public Health Association, November 8, Washington, D.C. 2004 Jurkowski, E. Preparing our workforce to deal with older adults in an aging society: The consumer's perspective. A paper presentation to the American Public Health Association, November 10, Washington, D.C. 2004 Jurkowski,E. Mental health issues for older adults in rural communities: Consumers’ perception in relation to service utilization . A paper presentation to the American Public Health Association, November 10, Washington, D.C. 2004 Jurkowski, E., & Lautar, C. Social Work curriculum development for service delivery and collaborative multidisciplinary practice. . A poster presentation to the American Public Health Association, November 9, Washington, D.C. 2004 Jurkowski, E. Lautar, C., & Beebe. S. N. Reaching the Healthy People 2010 objectives for rural children: Facilitators and barriers for reaching Healthy People 2010 goals. A roundtable presentation to the American Public Health Association, November 9, Washington, D.C. 2004 Jurkowski, E.T. Access to Care for People with disabilities and co-existing substance abuse issues in rural areas: Conceptualizing Facilitators and Barriers to Care and Service Delivery. A poster presentation to the American Public Health Association, November 9, Washington, D.C. 2004 A paper presentation for the annual Gerontological Society of America conference, November 22, 2004, Washington, DC. 2004 Gammon, E.A. & Jurkowski, E.T. The Student Portfolio: An Assessment of undergraduate Social Work. A paper presentation to the Council on Social Work Education, Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA, February 28 2004 Jurkowski, E.T. & Welch, P. Disability Content in Social Work Curricula: A model for infusion. A paper presentation to the Council on Social Work Education, Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA, February 28. 2004 Jurkowski, E.T. Infusing gerontological content: "Bringing consumers to the table" (or the classroom). A paper presentation to the National Gerontological Social Work Annual Conference, Anaheim, CA, February 28. 2003 Jurkowski, E.T. & Welch, P. Conceptualizing disability within curriculum content for public health and allied health professionals’ academic preparation. A paper presentation to the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, November 17 in San Francisco, CA. 2003 Jurkowski, E.T. Older adults' perceptions of the public health/social work professional: "Voices of the consumer". A paper presentation to the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, November 16 in San Francisco, CA. 2003 Jurkowski, E.T. Kathleen Deery, PhD 2, Hiroko Arikawa, PhD 3, Kerri Morgan, MS OTR/L 4, and David B. Gray, PhD 4. Assessing receptivity for people with mobility limitations in four different sized communities. A paper presentation to the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, November 16 in San Francisco, CA. 2003 Jurkowski, E.T., Lautar, C. Access to oral health care for older adults in a rural based community: Are intervention efforts making a difference in service utilization? A paper presentation to the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, November 15 in San Francisco, CA. 2003 Jurkowski, E.T. Physician/Provider perspectives toward Mental Health Services and Older Adults living in rural communities. A paper presentation to the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, November 16 in San Francisco, CA. 2003 Lautar, C. , Jurkowski, E.T. Oral Health Status of Children in a Rural Based Community: Does intervention to target low income and uninsured make a difference? A paper presentation to the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, November 17, 2003 in San Francisco, CA. 2003 Jurkowski, E.T. Preparing our workforce to deal with older adults in an aging society: The Consumers’ Perspective. A Presentation to the 56th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, November 24, 2003 in San Diego, California. 2003 Jurkowski, E. T. Mental Health and Systems Integration Project:
Outcomes and Impacts for Rural Elderly. A Poster presentation to
the Gerontological Society of America. Boston, MA. Nov. 26. 2002 Lautar, C. & Jurkowski, E. Reaching older adults within rural settings: Barriers and strategies to access. A paper presentation to the American Public Health Association, Philadelphia, PA. Nov. 12. 2002 Jurkowski, E.T., Welch, P. & Gammon, A. Engaging the workforce in addressing issues of diversity: Curriculum building for Public Health Social Work Practice. A paper presentation to the American Public Health Association, Philadelphia, PA. Nov. 11. 2002 Gray, D., Morgan, K., Sutter, D., Deery, K., & Jurkowski, E. Community Resource Index for Individuals with Mobility Limitations. A paper presentation to the American Public Health Association, Philadelphia, PA. Nov. 11. 2002 Gammon, A. & Jurkowski, E.T. Using the Recipient Community
to Develop Social 2002 Beebe, S., Lautar, C., & Jurkowski, E. Comparison of Children’s
Oral Health in a 2001 A comparison of children’s oral health in a rural based community. Poster presentation for the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, October 23, 2001 with Charla Lautar and Sandie Beebe. 2001 Building on community assets for oral health care services:
Social Work’s 2001 Mental Health Issues and the Elderly: An interactive web based resource for professionals, caregivers and older adults in rural communities. Round table presentation for the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, October 22, 2001 with Melissa Foulks,, Cherie Green, Tsukasa Okino, Tim McGrath and Donna VanMiddendorp. 2001 Integrating curriculum content on disability within Public Health Social Work Practice: Tools for curriculum building. Paper presentation for the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, October 22 with Trish Welch. 2001 Integrating curriculum content based on disability within
social work curricula: A 2000 Disability and Disadvantage: Reducing Health Disparities. The Role of Social Work Curriculum in Professional Training. American Public Health Association, Boston, Nov. 2000 with Trish Welch 2000 Trends in aging, functional status and community living: Rural versus urban comparisons. American Public Health Association, Boston, Nov. 2000. 2000 The role of citizen participation/advocacy in the reduction of health disparities. Lessons from Canada and the United States. American Public Health Association, Boston, Nov. 2000 Innovations in data collection strategies for social worker:
Utilizing web-based and 2000 Workshop entitled “The Dawn of a New Century: Building
strengths within practice/ community in working with people with
disabilities.” National Association for Social Workers, Maryland. 2000 Oral health programs/services for special and high risk populations. Integrating unmet dental needs. A blueprint and model for rural based oral health programs. American Public Health Association, Boston, Nov. 2000 with Jeanie Akamanti. 1999 The 127th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association. Paper Presentation entitled: “Children’s mental health services: Lessons learned from the rural Illinois experience for the next generation”. 1999 The 127th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association. Poster Presentation entitled: “The core functions and the role of Boards of Health: perspectives for urban and rural Boards of Health”, with Dr. Louis Rowitz. 1999 The 127th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association.
Poster 1999 The 127th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association. Paper Presentation entitled: “School based oral health programs for special and high risk populations. 1999 The 24th Annual National Institute on Social Work and Human
Services in Rural Areas, Salisbury, MD. Poster presentation entitled:
“Demographic Trends in Aging and Functionally Limited People
within Rural Communities: Implications for health and Social Service
Delivery in the 21st Century.” 1999 Association for Health Services Research, Chicago, IL. Poster presentation entitled: “Building Healthy Communities Through Community Health Assessment, Citizen Participation and a “Strengths” Perspective.” 1999 Association for Health Services Research, Chicago, IL. Poster presentation entitled: “Does “Health for All” Mean Healthier? The Canadian Health Care System: Lessons from Universal Policy Approach for U.S. Health Policy” 1998 Interagency Coalition for Disability Statistics. (Teleconference originating from Hayattsville, MD) Sites included Washington, Buffalo, NY; St. Lois, MO; San Francisco,CA;, Atlanta, GA. “Status of Disability and Social Action - US/Canadian Comparisons”. 1997 American Public Health Association, Indianapolis, IN, “Methodological
Techniques 1997 American Public Health Association, Indianapolis, IN, “Leadership, Community Participation and Access to Health Care Services for Individuals with Physical Disabilities”. 1996 The American Public Health Association. New York City, New York. “Leadership and Citizen Participation in Health Resource Planning for People with Disabilities: A Canadian American Comparison” 1995 The American Association for Mental Retardation, Boston, MA. “Trends in Disability Services, A North American Comparison” with Louis Rowitz. 1994 The American Association for Mental Retardation. Washington, DC. “Trends for the Year 2000 for People with Developmental Disabilities - An American, Latin American Comparison”. 1992 American Association for Mental Retardation, New Orleans, LA. “Evaluation of HIV Prevention and self-protection Training Programs”. 1991 American Association for Mental Retardation. Atlanta, GA.“Affection, love, intimacy and sexual relationships” Regional/State 2006 Jurkowski, E.T. Preparing our workforce to meet the mental
health needs of rural consumers: Translating the evidence to training.
A workshop presentation to the Illinois Rural Health Association,
Effingham, IL, April 17. 2006 Jurkowski, E.T. “Understanding health behavior and help seeking behavior”. A workshop conducted for the Retired Social Workers Project, National Institute of Social Workers, IL Chapter., Chicago, IL, June 21, 2006 Jurkowski, E.T. “Aging and mental health assessment strategies”. A workshop conducted for the Retired Social Workers Project, National Institute of Social Workers, IL Chapter., Chicago, IL, May 30. 2006 Greene, C., Patel, D., Walls, T. & Jurkowski, E. Senior
Centers and nutrition 2006 Jurkowski, E.T. & Lautar, C.J. Recipes for Multidisciplinary
Collaboration: 2003 Perceptions of mental health issues for older adults in rural communities with Tsukasa Okino. Poster presentation for the Illinois Rural Health Association’s Annual Conference, April 16th, Bloomington, IL. 2002 Link-Mullisan, M., Jurkowski, E. Lautar, C., Beebe, S., Jackson County Consortium on Oral Health: Building on Assets for Oral Health Status. Paper presentation for The Illinois Rural Health Association’s Annual Conference, Rural Health: On Track for Our Future, April 18, Bloomington, IL. 2002 Lautar, C., Jurkowski, E. Beebe, S., A snapshot of oral health status of Children in a Rural Based Community. Paper presentation for The Illinois Rural Health Association’s Annual Conference, Rural Health: On Track for Our Future, April 18, 2002, Bloomington, IL. 2002 Jurkowski, E. ,Mental Health and Aging Systems Integration Project: Outcomes and Impacts for Rural Elderly. Paper presentation for The Illinois Rural Health Association’s Annual Conference, Rural Health: On Track for Our Future, April 17, Bloomington, IL. 2002 Jurkowski, E. , Foulks, M., Green, C., Okino, T., McGrath, T., Van Middendorp, D., Mental Health Issues and the Elderly: An Interactive Web-based resource for Health Professionals, Caregivers and Older Adults. Poster presentation for The Illinois Rural Health Association’s Annual Conference, Rural Health: On Track for Our Future, April 17, Bloomington, IL. 2001 Therapeutic Recreation and Gerontology Certificates: A model for successful partnerships. A panel presentation to the Midwest Therapeutic Regional Conference, St. Louis, MO, April 24, with Sally Perkins, Michael Judd and Joe Teaff. 2001 The Development of Interdisciplinary Gerontology Certificate
Programs: The Relevance to Practitioners in Rural America. A paper
presentation for The Illinois Rural Health Association Annual Meeting,
Effingham, Il, March 22, with Sally Perkins & Michael Judd. 2001 Evaluating the status of disability content in Social Work curricula. A paper presentation for the Council for Social Work Education Annual Meeting, Dallas, Texas, March 11, with Trish Welch. 2000 Oral health program for special and high risk populations: A model for rural oral health programs. Illinois Rural Health Association, Effingham, IL with Jeanie Akamanti. 1996 The Illinois Public Health Association, St Charles, IL “Community Collaboration and Program Design: Involving the Community in the Design of Family Centred Services” with Nanci Maksimowicz, Viviana Plopper and Debbie Bretag. 1996 People First International Conference, Naperville, IL, “Case Management 101 ; Guidelines for Professional Partnerships” with Matt Passen. October 7. Local 2002 Jurkowski, E., Lautar, C., Beebe, S.(2002). A snapshot of
the oral health status of children in a rural based community. Poster
presentation for Celebrating Scholarship About and For 2001 The Development of Interdisciplinary Gerontology Certificate Programs: Relevance to Practitioners in Rural Settings. A poster presentation for Phi Delta Kappa Research Day, April 12, Carbondale, IL, with Sally Perkins, Michael Judd, Joe Teaff, Daryl Taylor and Martin Tracy. 2001 Health and Disability Trends - 1980-2000: Rural versus urban settings. Implications for health and social service policy, planning & development for rural communities. Presentation to “Celebrating Scholarship by and about Women” UWPA, April 18. 2001 Community planning utilizing the “Generalist Intervention Model”: Oral health program for special and high risk populations: Integrating unmet oral health needs. A model for rural based oral health programs. Presentation to “Celebrating Scholarship by and about Women” UWPA, April 18, with Jeanie Akamanti. 1999 University Women’s Professional Advancement 6th Annual Refereed Poster Session, Southern Illinois University: “Leadership/Community Participation and Access to Health Care Services for Women with Physical Disabilities”. 1999 University Women’s Professional Advancement 6th Annual Refereed Poster Session, Southern Illinois University: “Leadership lessons from women in rural based social service settings”, with Wayne Evens, Vickki Bernard and Yolanda Gunzal. 1999 Continuing Education, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Carbondale, IL. Workshop presented entitled: “Negotiation Skills for Community Resource Planning”. Other: - Thakur Hari Prasad Institute for Rehabilitation and Research & SIUC: Collaboration agreement and Memorandum of Understanding. (September, 2000) - Ministry of Health, Republic of Niger, Collaboration agreement and Memorandum of Understanding with Southern Illinois University Carbondale (November, 2000).
D. Papers and Presentations at Professional Meetings: 2006 Jurkowski, E.T. Responding to the “Boom”: Gerontological Social Work. An oral presentation to the National Association of Social Workers, Statewide Symposium, Bloomington, IL, September 18. 2006 Jurkowski, E.T. “Understanding health behavior and help seeking behavior”. A workshop conducted for the Retired Social Workers Project, National Institute of Social Workers, IL Chapter., Chicago, IL, June 21, 2006 Jurkowski, E.T. “Aging and mental health assessment strategies”. A workshop conducted for the Retired Social Workers Project, National Institute of Social Workers, IL Chapter., Chicago, IL, May 30. 2004 Consumers’ perception of the helping professions. A presentation to the Quality of Life Conference held through Continuing Education and COEHS Graduate Certificate in Gerontology, May 31, 2004, Carbondale, IL. 2003 Mental Health and Dementia. A workshop for the University
of Illinois Certificate in 2003 “Mental Health and Older Adults: Staying “Mentally
Fit” with Jane Maxwell. A paper presentation to the Quality
of Life Conference held through Continuing Education 2003 “Mental Health and Older Adults” A workshop presentation to the “Health Expo held through Continuing Education, May 1, Carbondale, IL. 2003 Reaching the oral health needs of older adults within rural
settings: Barriers and strategies 2002 Jurkowski, E., Research update on Physician/Provider perspectives
toward Mental Health 2002 Jurkowski, E., Richards, T., Suro, J., Warner, L., Williams,
R. Mental health and aging systems integration. Paper presentation
for The Governor’s Conference on Mental Health 2001 MHASI: A Systems Integration approach to improving mental
health services to Seniors. 2001 Rural oral health access for uninsured children: Does availability
ensure access? A paper presentation to the Statewide oral health
conference organized by Illinois Department of Public Health, Oral
Health Division, Bloomington, IL, May 9, 2001. Hannon, R., Ford, T., Jurkowski, E. Hull, S., Wikoff, L.,
Milliken, C., Ripka, G., Rabe, C., & Keyser, S. (2006). Mental
Health in rural Illinois: Recovery is the Goal. An analysis of Jurkowski, Elaine. (1998). Building an Inclusive Community: People
First of Windsor. Prepared Jurkowski, E., Burke, A. & Kessler, H. United Way Centraide:
A Community Perspective on Jurkowski, Elaine (1997). The United Way Needs Assessment Reports
in Health: Jurkowski, Elaine & Segura, Elana (1997). The United Way/Crusade
of Mercy – Agency Jurkowski, Elaine. (1995). Homelessness and Mental Illness: The
State of Perceived Needs and Jurkowski, E. (1995). Community Voices: An Assessment of LAN 65
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