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Navigating AI in Social Work Education

Teaching & Learning in Social Work

She is an expert in generative AI, machine learning in social work, social media use, online education, and teaching with technology. She also works with agencies to train staff in Motivational Interviewing. The full article can be downloaded here and shared with your local social services agencies.

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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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Agile working failing to meet social workersā€™ needs in Scotland, finds study

Community Care

Approaches in which people are not allocated a fixed desk and work at different times and locations depending on need have become increasingly common, but practitioners are consistently negative about them, found a five-year study into newly qualified social workers published by the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC). .

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NASW Media News Hits ā€“ December 2021

Social Workers Speak

The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) reached a potential news audience of more than 250 million readers in December, thanks partly to coverage of the Kentucky governor announcing pay raises for social workers, mention of NASW in a People magazine on adult adoption, and an op-ed on the drug syringe program in New Jersey.

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In ā€œchild welfareā€ the horror stories go in all directions ā€“ all year long

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

More than half the time the child who disclosed the abuse was not even interviewed by those charged with investigating the allegation. FAMILY FOSTER AND ADOPTIVE HOMES Arabella McCormack and her sisters were taken from their mother because they witnessed domestic violence. They were placed with foster parents who adopted them.

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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 ā€œA Dangerous Tool in An Arbitrary System.ā€ --And in this essay, she takes on the harm of mandatory reporting laws. Instead, the coach is going to court to adopt your child ā€“ 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, weeks ending Nov. 28, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Department of Health and Human Services. When that happens, social services officials come under fire. Among the enormous harms of the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act is a dramatic escalation in the number of times childrenā€™s rights to their parents are terminated.