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Navigating AI in Social Work Education

Teaching & Learning in Social Work

She also works with agencies to train staff in Motivational Interviewing. Practical Pros and Cons : AI can boost the productivity of administrative tasks and richer educational content. She is an expert in generative AI, machine learning in social work, social media use, online education, and teaching with technology.

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The Victoria ClimbiƩ Inquiry chair reflects on social work, 21 years on

Community Care

Our interview with Lord Herbert Laming is part of a new series of profiles of key figures who have shaped social work over the past five decades, to celebrate Community Care’s 50th anniversary. It has also been adopted by the Department for Education in its 2023 strategy for the sector, Stable Homes, Built on Love.

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The $20 million boondoggle that perfectly illustrates the banality of child welfare thinking

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The money goes to two adoption advocacy groups (reinforcing the bias that permanency equals adoption, not reunification, and prioritizing paper permanence over what has aptly been called ā€œ relational permanence ā€) not one, but two schools of social work, and ā€“ I kid you not - a consortium of child welfare system administrators.

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7 Ways To Improve Your Human Services Organization

Relias

Some temporary regulatory measures that made telehealth adoption easier during the pandemic have now faded away. In an interview with Social Work Today , John Jay said, ā€œAs organizations adapt to and become more accustomed to delivering telehealth, telehealth is going to be more prevalent in behavioral health moving forward.

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Thoughts from the storage boxes

The Vintage Social Worker

It covers every aspect of residential care, from management and staff support, daily routines, administration, admission policy, recruitment, children’s rights, discipline and control measures and all the aspects of direct work and daily care. And yet we closed and cut and closed again.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending October 25, 2022

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

26) 1:00 pm ET: Movement for Family Power is sponsoring a teach-in on Resisting the Family Police: Fourth Amendment Challenges and Possibilities NOVEMBER 2, 2:00 pm ET: Family Integrity and Justice Works kicks off a National Campaign to Address the Harms Caused by Adoption and Safe Families Act: Reimaging Permanency.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending June 6, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

--All you had to do was read between the lines to see that when New York Cityā€™s family police agency, the Administration for Childrenā€™s Services, claimed if favored letting families they investigate know their rights, they were lying. Now, thanks to some great reporting by ProPublica, you no longer need to read between the lines.