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Leveraging AI in Social Work: A Pathway to Empowering Vulnerable Populations

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

In this section, let’s explore how AI can revolutionize social work practices in three key areas: elder care, mental health support for veterans, and education for children on the autism spectrum. This tailored approach can help all children thrive in educational settings and develop the skills they need to succeed in life.

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Exposed and at Risk: New Report Shows Farms Do Little to Protect Workers from Harm

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Tim Mossholder on unsplash.com “All they care about is the harvest,” Gracida Daleyza, a farmworker and mother of two young disabled children, told Lookout Santa Cruz. The report also uncovered that compliance with existing pesticide enforcement laws, meant to protect farmworkers, is “woefully low.”

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Organizing to Abolish Rental Application Fees in Rhode Island

NonProfit Quarterly

In June, Rhode Island’s attorney general announced a civil lawsuit against Pioneer Investments, accusing the landlord of failing to comply with a slew of state health and safety laws—a virtually unprecedented move, organizers say, and a major victory for the group.

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The Transformative Potential of Sabbaticals: What Field Research Reveals

NonProfit Quarterly

Termed שמיטה ( shmita , literally “release”) in the Torah, Jewish law mandated that every seven years, all agricultural activity cease: “The land must be given a rest period, a sabbath to God” (Leviticus 25: 1–7). Another respondent talked about “nursing themselves” back to health. Today, sabbaticals have spread broadly.

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Healing Systems

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Wainwright is the CEO of Family Life , one of Australia’s largest family services providers working with vulnerable children and their families. “If The prevailing narrative, which focuses on individuals, treats traumatized people as psychologically abnormal, rather than as having a normal reaction to abnormal circumstances.

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[VIDEO] Creative Ways People Contribute to Community

Bloomerang

This is all coming from psychology, social sciences, and my personal observations. And as much as you might think that law is all about statements and facts and dominance and power, she argues that it’s really about curiosity and exploration. . So this is some of like the psychology behind what I’m sharing.

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Beyond Karen: White Woman Archetypes in the Third Sector

NonProfit Quarterly

13 A Brief History of Archetypes Carl Jung is considered the father of archetypal psychology. The Mammy archetype is the image of an unattractive Black mother who is strong and content in her caregiving role for many children in the service of White slave owners or White employers. 15 These images are referred to as archetypes.