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Navigating AI in Social Work Education

Teaching & Learning in Social Work

He researches technology and child welfare and enjoys integrating emerging technologies in the classroom and as a field instructor. Whether policies are conservative or liberal, the goal is to use AI responsibly while ensuring confidentiality and ethics. (We Todd Sage , Ph.D., Melanie Sage , Ph.D.,

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When the journalism of child welfare fails, part three: Texas lawmakers are catching on; the Texas Tribune is not.

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The state capitol in Austin What the Tribune (and the Dallas Morning News ) can’t face is that after decades of seeing the system that calls itself “child welfare” do enormous harm to children, people across the political spectrum are coming together and finding common ground. But it still has a long way to go.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending February 13, 2024

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

They should do what Texas did and largely replace it with confidential reporting, in which the accused still doesn’t know the name of the accuser, but the family police do. ● In this week’s edition of The Horror Stories Go In All Directions: Hawaii, 2021: six-year-old Ariel Sellers was allegedly adopted to death.

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

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

This side of the child welfare story - what happens to mothers like Alexis after their children enter the system - is seldom seen. If anyone still doubts the need to replace anonymous reporting of alleged child abuse with confidential reporting, check out this story from ProPublica. Here’s how it begins: It was 5:30 a.m.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending May 3, 2022

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Roberts discusses her book, and racism in child welfare with Marc Lamont Hill And here with Ali Velshi on MSNBC: ? It seems like a week doesn’t go by without some “child welfare” agency announcing an initiative that supposedly will make family policing kinder and gentler. Velshi refers to Prof. You can read that story here. ?

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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.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending June 20, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

There’s lots to link to, but the two journalists who know the Indian Child Welfare Act – and the case that led up to last week’s decision – best are probably Rebecca Nagle, who produced the This Land podcast about the case – she discusses the decision here – and Nancy Marie Spears of The Imprint , who wrote about the decision here.