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Navigating AI in Social Work Education

Teaching & Learning in Social Work

Alexander Rubin , LCSW, is a clinical assistant professor based in field education at the University at Buffalo School of School of Social Work. Michael Lynch , LMSW, is a clinical associate professor at the University at Buffalo School of Social Work. She also works with agencies to train staff in Motivational Interviewing.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending June 27, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Now The Imprint reports on how the same agency used the same tactics to undermine legislation to replace anonymous child abuse reporting with confidential reporting. One of her recommendations: Repeal the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. “It in contrast, passed bills to do both. I missed this one last month: Prof.

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All You Need To Know About Social Work Articles

Social Work Haven

“Rethinking Social Work’s Role in a Rapidly Changing World : by Antoinette Lombard and Andre Viviers offer an overview of the need for social work in teh 21st century to adopt a more transformative social-policy approach, including policy advocacy. There are several social work professional articles on various topics.

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NCCPR at the Kempe Center conference: The case against CASA

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Then we’ll let them into the homes of families let them, interview everyone, assess those families, spend an average of 12 minutes every working day investigating the case - and then they can effectively decide if the child will go into foster care. I’ll just send someone out to pick a bunch of well-intentioned amateurs to do it for free!

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, weeks ending Nov. 28, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

If anyone still doubts the need to replace anonymous reporting of alleged child abuse with confidential reporting, check out this story from ProPublica. Among the enormous harms of the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act is a dramatic escalation in the number of times children’s rights to their parents are terminated.

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

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Also pending before the New York State Legislature: A bill to replace anonymous reporting with confidential reporting. We should remove criminalization of women who are pregnant and taking drugs," Dr. Nora Volkow, head of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), said in an interview. That needs to stop."

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NCCPR family preservation news and commentary round-up for the year 2023, Part Two

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Fong writes in The Imprint about why the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act is “A Dangerous Tool in An Arbitrary System.” --And in this essay, she takes on the harm of mandatory reporting laws. Instead, the coach is going to court to adopt your child – because he now has every bit as much right to your child as you do.