Community Partnerships

SUMMARY. Community challenges force human service agencies tocollaborate in providing services. Such collaborations require practitio-ners to have skills not found in mainstream social work curricula. Thispaper explores how a new MSW program evolved through dialog withcommunity leaders and resulted in a curriculum with a sole concentra-tion of community partnerships. [Article copies available for a fee from TheHaworth Document Delivery Service: 1-800-HAWORTH. E-mail address: Website: © 2004 byThe Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved.] Mindy R. Wertheimer is Director of Field Education, Elizabeth L. Beck is Associ-ate Professor, Fred Brooks is Assistant Professor, and James L. Wolk is Professor andDirector, School of Social Work, Georgia State University.Address correspondence to: Mindy R. Wertheimer, PhD, School of Social Work,Georgia State University, MSC 8L0381, 33 Gilmer Street, SE Unit 8, Atlanta, GA30303-3088 (E-mail: mwertheimer@gsu.edu).