title: Community-based AIDS service organizations: challenges and educational preparation.
abstract: Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) has been recognized as the health care challenge of the 1980s. Community-based AIDS service organizations have emerged to meet this challenge by providing critical services to people with AIDS at a time when other health and social service systems were slow to respond. Results of a nationwide survey indicate that social workers are fully enmeshed in these new community health care agencies, perform a variety of social work and administrative functions, and face challenges to professional self-awareness. Social work educators need to maintain a strong liberal arts and professional foundation base, and add information about community-based AIDS service organizations to the existing health care curricula.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Administration and Social Work, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton.
authors.forename: D E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Alperin
authors.forename: N D
authors.initials: ND
authors.lastname: Richie
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; D000328:Adult; D003153:Community Health Services / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012947:Social Work / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States; D014837:Voluntary Health Agencies