Faith-Based Initiatives and Aging Services

by Ellor; James W

• ISBN13: 9780789027344
• ISBN10: 0789027348
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2005-03-04
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Gain an understanding of the increased role religious congregations now play in providing social support to the elderly Religious congregations and faith-based organizations (FBO) from the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions have worked on behalf of older adults for centuries. But the initiation of President Bush's Office of Faith-Based Initiatives has raised many questions from both the traditional secular and sectarian services as well as many nontraditional services found in each community. Faith-Based Initiatives and Aging Services addresses the issues of the separation of church and state, the concerns involved in developing social services in religious congregations, and the larger public policy implications of this office. This unique book offers perspectives from traditional and nontraditional faith-based groups, as well as experts in volunteerism. The enactment by Congress of the Charitable Choice section of the federal welfare reform law combined with the creation of the Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives in the United States Department of Health and Human Services to signal a high-level of interest in supporting faith-based organizations. Faith-Based Initiatives and Aging Services focuses on the specific applications of services provided by religious congregations. Editors F. Ellen Netting and James W. Ellor conducted an in-depth interview with Elizabeth Seal-Scott, then Director of the Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives (an edited transcript of the interview is included in the book) to help promote understanding of the development and implementation of faith-based, grass roots programs. Faith-Based Initiatives and Aging Services examines: the separation of church and state Baptist perspectives on faith-based initiatives and religious liberty managing older volunteers faith organizations and ethnically diverse elders the heritage of religion and spirituality in the field of gerontology faith-related agencies and their implications for aging services the role of religious congregations in the social service system Faith-Based Initiatives and Aging Services is an essential resource for anyone interested in developing programs for older adults in religious congregations, for human services staffs seeking to work with faith-based initiatives, and for government workers in need of a better understanding of faith-based services in their community.

Table of Contents

Preface	xv
James W. Ellor, PhD
Separation of Church and State: Impact on Faith-Based Services	1	(14)
James W. Ellor, PhD
Micro Practice and Faith-Based Initiatives: The Role of Religious Congregations in the Social Service System	15	(22)
James W. Ellor, PhD
Faith-Related Agencies and Their Implications for Aging Services	37	(30)
F. Ellen Netting, PhD
Dialogue with Elizabeth Seale-Scott, Director, Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services	67	(14)
James W. Ellor, PhD
F. Ellen Netting, PhD
Baptist Perspectives on Faith-Based Initiatives and Religious Liberty	81	(18)
Jon Singletary, PhD, MSW, MDiv
Wherefore the Faith-Based Initiative: A Commentary and Analysis	99	(8)
Ronald H. Field, MS
Managing Older Volunteers: Implications for Faith-Based Organizations	107	(16)
Nancy L. Macduff
Faith Organizations and Ethnically Diverse Elders: A Community Action Model	123	(20)
Terry Tirrito, PhD
Gil Choi, PhD
The Heritage of Religion and Spirituality in the Field of Gerontology: Don Clingan, Tom Cook, and the National Interfaith Coalition on Aging	143	(12)
James W. Ellor, PhD
Melvin A. Kimble, PhD
Index	155