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Navigating AI in Social Work Education

Teaching & Learning in Social Work

LCSW, is a tech consultant for universities, social work departments, and social work agencies. She also works with agencies to train staff in Motivational Interviewing. Melanie Sage , Ph.D., 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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Adoption leaders bid to reform ‘institutionally racist’ system

Community Care

The adoption system is “institutionally racist”, sector leaders have warned, in a strategy designed to tackle ethnic inequalities facing children and prospective adopters and a lack of diversity in the workforce. of prospective adopters approved in England from 2018-19 to 2020-21, compared with the 6.4%

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Overcoming the barriers to contact between siblings separated by the care system

Community Care

By Kirsty Hammonds, Coram In my role as child placement consultant in Coram’s activity days team, I come across many siblings who will not be able to live together permanently. This may be due to older siblings already having been adopted or even being deemed too old to be adopted and therefore remaining in long-term foster care.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending March 1, 2022

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The researchers who wrote the article for JAMA Pediatrics debunking the whole “pandemic of child abuse” myth discuss their findings in this interview. Those words came in a decision reversing a lower court which allowed a Black child to be taken from his loving extended family and placed with white strangers who tried to adopt him.

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Myth-making in Maine

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Department of Health and Human Services Trends in Foster Care and Adoption, FFY 2011-2020 Using the same limited measures, OPEGA suggests that child abuse deaths in June 2021 didn’t have much effect, since investigations didn’t increase. The report claims that parents have the right to refuse to let their children be interviewed.

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Promoting DEI in Healthcare

Relias

Clinical Effectiveness Consultant at Relias, and Celeste Duke, SPHR, Managing Content Specialist at BLR, discussed diversity and inclusion strategies to improve both health outcomes and staff retention. How you conduct interviews also has a big impact. Many people prefer in-person interviews so they can assess visual cues.

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How equipped is children’s social work for digital safeguarding?

Community Care

We recently interviewed senior managers across eight local authorities to scope their readiness for children’s digital safeguarding. Barriers to implementation Participants reported challenges and barriers to adoption and implementation of digital safeguarding at both national and local level.