Episode 28 – Dr. Jones talks with UK faculty Dr. Chris Flaherty about military social work, research, and UK’s new Army Master of Social Work (MSW) Program Collaboration

Dr. Jones talks with UK faculty Dr. Chris Flaherty about military social work, research, and UK’s new Army MSW Program Collaboration

Chris Flaherty Bio:

https://socialwork.uky.edu/dr-chris-flaherty/

Military Social Work UK News Items:

April 2019 – Army-UK MSW Program to Graduate First Class

https://socialwork.uky.edu/army-uk-msw-program-to-graduate-first-class/

More info about the Army / University of Kentucky Military MSW Program:

https://socialwork.uky.edu/msw/army-college-of-social-work-master-of-social-work-program/

Not able to relocate to Ft. Sam Houston in San Antonio, TX? Consider the University of Kentucky’s new Online MSW program:

https://landing.socialworkonline.uky.edu/msw 

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Episode 28 – Dr. Jones talks with UK faculty Dr. Chris Flaherty about military social work, research, and UK’s new Army MSW Program Collaboration

Blake [00:00:02] Hello and welcome to the social work Conversations podcast produced by the University of Kentucky College of Social Work. My name is Blake Jones. Here we explore the intersection of social work research practice and education. Our goal is to showcase the amazing people associated with our college and to give our listeners practical tools that they can use to change the world.

Blake [00:00:25] Well I’m joined today by my colleague and friend Dr. Chris Flaherty here at the College of Social Work. Thanks for coming on Chris.

Chris [00:00:31] Thanks for having me appreciate it.

Blake [00:00:32] So I know that we are taping this right after Veterans Day and you’re a veteran and I need to ask you this burning question I’ve been thinking about because I’ve known you for a while and I feel like I can ask you Can you still do 50 push ups? And if so. Can you demonstrate. Now this is a podcast but ha ha…

Chris [00:00:54] Actually I could never do 50 pushups so I’m holding steady on that funny story I mentioned to someone recently that you know the Air Force had. More lenient physical fitness standards and some of the other services but still standards and I was never the biggest jock in the service so I usually got by I stand. But my last test near the end of my career. I actually didn’t make the standard and I was scheduled to retest. And I’d learned at this point after 20 years of service you don’t fight the system. I didn’t want to make an argument that well I’m retiring anyway who cares that that wasn’t going to fly. So what I did was I just said sure please schedule me my retake. But I scheduled it after my retirement date.

Blake [00:01:42] Well that’s one way to get out of it.

Chris [00:01:44] I still owe them that test. Well I’m training up so.

Blake [00:01:48] Good. Good. What’s so good to see you. And you are an associate professor here at the University of Kentucky College of Social Work. You’ve been here since 2005. Before that you were a military social worker for 20 years and you know I’m really excited about talking with you about your work a lot of good things have been happening and are happening in our college lately around military social work or social work with veterans and I wonder if you could talk a little bit about the things that are happening with our new Fort Sam Houston students and some other things that are happening in our college.

Chris [00:02:26] Sure we have several things under way now. The Fort Sam Houston program is I think a very exciting new initiative we have. Not that new we actually signed this contract in October of 2016 and this is an interesting collaboration. We’re working with the Army primarily but also across all branches and there is a program where the social workers are trained in Texas at Fort Sa