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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 is an expert in generative AI, machine learning in social work, social media use, online education, and teaching with technology. Melanie Sage , Ph.D.,

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Child Welfare FAQs Regarding Family Detention or Deportation

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Concerned individuals should consult an experienced and trusted immigration law attorney about your situation to verify that what you are doing will be honored by authorities in your state. County Departments of Human/Social Services are required to complete background checks.

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KVC Health Systems Launches KVC Missouri and Names New President

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In this role, she led a team that dramatically grew community support for children who are in foster care due to abuse or neglect, increasing the organization’s foster and adoptive families by 78%, from 500 to 892 homes. It is called the Foster Care Adoption Resource Services, Training and Consultation (FCARSTC) program.

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‘Why social work needs to become more skilled in kinship care’

Community Care

But to achieve this there needs to be a strategic plan to develop properly resourced kinship care services. Currently kinship care is wedged uncomfortably into systems designed primarily for fostering and adoption and is often the poor relation in a hierarchy of rights and support.” But many are now at breaking point.

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‘The power of social work has shaped who I am’ – ADCS’s new care experienced president

Community Care

He was one of those children whose lives were transformed by a social worker. Smith was taken into care as a baby, spending the first 11 years of his life in a foster home before those same carers adopted him. From the age of seven, up until his adoption, he had the same social worker, with whom he remained in contact into his 20s.

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

Community Care

In 2001, the government tasked the former chief inspector of social services with chairing a statutory inquiry into the murder of the eight-year-old Ivorian girl by her great aunt, Marie-Therese Kouao, and Kouao’s boyfriend, Carl Manning the previous year. “It But, the crossbench peer says, some of that outstanding work has been lost.

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Legal analysis: the Supreme Court’s verdict on ordinary residence and mental health aftercare

Community Care

The issue in this case was which of two local authorities was responsible for providing and paying for “aftercare services” under section 117 of the Mental Health Act 1983 (“MHA”) for a particular individual. What does section 117 say? However, the DHSC changed its mind and challenged its own guidance. of the guidance).