NASW NH Social Work Celebration

Join us as we celebrate social work month in person!

We will be recognizing our Social Worker of the Year, Citizen of the Year, Legislator of the Year, MSW Student of the Year from UNH, MSW Student of the Year from Colby Sawyer, BSW Student of the Year from Plymouth State, and BSW Student of the Year from UNH.

8 :30 – 11:00 am

Beginning Agenda (more to come!):

• Full breakfast & networking
• Welcome from your NASW NH Chapter President, Anne Marie Olsen-Hayward
• Presentation by Melbourne Moran, LICSW 2024 NASW NH Social Worker of the Year
• Awards recognizing SW Students, Legislator, Citizen & Social Worker of the Year
• Interspersed fun & raffles!

You can register for the celebration, the workshop or both.

You can purchase raffle tickets here or at the celebration.

Afternoon Ethics Workshop –

Ethics of AI in Social Work Practice: How do we know what we know?

1 :00 – 4:15 pm – at the Hotel Concord or virtually

This program has been approved for 3 Continuing Education hours in Ethics for licensure. NASW NH Authorization Number 4311.

Alison Mitchell, PhD, LICSW

Generative Artificial Intelligence (genAI) has become widely available. AI isn’t “coming” to Social Work practice, it is here. Social Work students – our upcoming generation of practitioners and providers – are learning how to work with generative AI, its potentials and pitfalls, ethical issues, and social justice considerations. Are you ready?

This workshop will demonstrate how to generate an AI response to a prompt. Using that response, participants will take part in hands-on activities and discussion to consider uses, misuses, social justice implications, and importantly, identify and apply ethical standards and decision-making frameworks. We will weigh how and when incorporating generative AI into Social Work practice might be useful versus harmful. Ultimately, participants will be encouraged to form their own opinions and strategies for how they decide to incorporate or not incorporate generative AI into their SW practice.

TRAINING OUTCOMES

At the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

• Generate an AI response to a prompt using at least 2 generative AI platforms;
• Identify and explain ethical standards relating to use of AI in Social Work practice;
• Evaluate how and when they might incorporate generative AI into their practice using ethical decision-making frameworks as a guide

About the Presenter

Alison Smith Mitchell, PhD, LICSW is an Assistant Professor in Social Work at Plymouth State University, and recipient of the 2023-24 PSU Transformative Teaching Award. She earned her PhD in clinical social work from the Smith College School for Social Work and completed her MSW at the University of Maine School of Social Work. Prior to joining the PSU Social Work program, she worked in social service program development and evaluation, as a community mental health provider, and as a private mental health practitioner. Dr. Mitchell is an independently licensed clinical social worker in New Hampshire and Maine. Outside of the classroom, she enjoys hiking, skiing, and playing with her dogs.

You can attend the workshop in person or virtually via zoom.

If you would prefer to pay by check, please email Emryn – elessie.naswnh@socialworkers.org

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