Technology Summit
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This summit, for CSWE members with interest in social work education and technology, will include workshops with expert panelists where participants will learn how to prepare future social workers to be competent with technology in diverse settings.
2022 Technology Summit Agenda
Total run time: 5 hours
15 minutes Welcome
15 minutes Technology Advisory Group Speaker #1 Jonathan Singer- Loyola University Chicago
1.5 hours Workshop Sessions #1- [break out]
Teaching with Technology: Optimizing Technology to Transform the Generalist Social Work Curriculum
Marjorie N. Edguer, PhD, LISW-S, LICDC-CS Case Western Reserve University-Cleveland, OH
Zoe Breen Wood, MSW, PhD Case Western Reserve University-Cleveland, OH
Using Design-based Practices and e-Simulations to Prepare Students for Telehealth Practices
Samantha N. Wolfe-Taylor, MSW, LCSW Indiana University-Indianapolis, IN
Christian K. Deck, MSW, LSW Indiana University-Indianapolis, IN
15 minutes Break
15 minutes Technology Advisory Group Speaker #2 Raquel Warley- Mercy College
1.5 hours Workshop Sessions #2- [break out]
Digital Competence: Social Workers in the Digital World
Lauri Goldkind, PhD Fordham University-New York, NY
Walter LaMendola, PhD University of Denver-Denver, CO
Lea Wolf, LMSW Hunter College, CUNY-Pleasantville, NY
Social Work Answers the (VIDEO) call: Tele-behavioral Health Use During COVID-19
Brianna Lombardi, MSW, PhD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill-Chapel Hill, NC
Christopher Thyberg, MSW University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh, PA
Supporting the Virtual Needs of Students and Community through University Partnerships
Susan Elswick, EdD, LCSW, RPT-S The University of Memphis-Memphis, TN
David Wilkerson, PhD, MSW, LCSW Indiana University-Indianapolis, IN
Sarah Caliboso-Soto, MSW, LCSW University of Southern California-Los Angeles, CA
15 minutes Break
15 minutes Technology Advisory Group Speaker #3 Melanie Sage- University at Buffalo
1 hour Don’t Share That! Information Literacy for a Healthier Democracy
Steve David, MSW, LSW Ohio State University-Columbus, OH
Conclusion
Samantha N. Wolfe-Taylor
Using Design-based Practices and e-Simulations to Prepare Students for Telehealth Practices
Indiana University
Samantha is the Associate Director of the Office of e-Social Work Education and Practice at Indiana University School of Social Work. She is a Ph.D. candidate, a licensed clinical social worker, and a certified telemental health practitioner in Indiana. Samantha manages the e-Social Work Practice Graduate Certificate program and is a developer and coordinator of the e-simulations for IUSSW. She is also a contracted telebehavioral health clinician for TimelyMD, providing college students with telemental health services. Her research and practice are in telehealth, online education, and e-simulations for practice preparation.
Christian K. Deck
Using Design-based Practices and e-Simulations to Prepare Students for Telehealth Practices
Indiana University
Christian is an Indianapolis-based social worker, educator, and researcher. He is currently a Visiting Lecturer at the Indiana University School of Social Work, teaching primarily with their online MSW program. He enjoys teaching Telebehavioral Health courses and foundational Social Work practice courses and he is interested in telebehavioral health, online social work education, e-Simulations, and enhancing e-Social Work distance education through program development and technology design. Prior to joining IUSSW Christian had been the Director of KidsPeace Foster Care and Community Programs in Indianapolis, IN. He also serves on the board of the IUSSW Alumni Association. He is a BSW ('12) and MSW ('16) graduate of the Indiana University School of Social Work.
Marjorie N. Edguer
Teaching with Technology: Optimizing Technology to Transform the Generalist Social Work Curriculum
Case Western Reserve University
Zoe Wood
Teaching with Technology: Optimizing Technology to Transform the Generalist Social Work Curriculum
Case Western Reserve University
Lauri Goldkind
Digital Competence: Social Workers in the Digital World
Fordham University
Lauri Goldkind, PhD, LMSW is an associate professor at Fordham’s Graduate School of Social Service and the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Technology in Human Services. Dr. Goldkind’s current research has two strands: data justice and information and communication technologies (ICT) tools in human services and nonprofits. She has a robust network of community partners in New York City and internationally, including the International Federation of Settlement Houses, United Neighborhood Houses and Caritas Macau. She holds an M.S.W. from SUNY Stony Brook with a concentration in planning, administration, and research and a PhD from the Wurzweiler School of Social Work at Yeshiva University. Dr. Goldkind was in residence at the United Nations University Institute on Computing and Society, located in Macau, SAR, China from June to August 2017 with plans to return in the June 2022.
Walter LaMendola
Digital Competence: Social Workers in the Digital World
University of Denver
Dr. LaMendola is Professor Emeritus, Graduate School of Social Work (GSSW), University of Denver. He is an MSW, University of Pittsburgh (1964), community organization. Dr. LaMendola served as an army social work officer during the Vietnam War (1966-69). His PhD dissertation (University of Minnesota, 1976) investigated information system development in the human services. A pioneer in the integration of technology, human services and education, Dr. LaMendola developed an IFIPS award winning small computer system for human service agencies in 1979. He opened an Information Technology Center at University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work in 1983. He consulted in various countries and co-founded a number of early computer networks, including husITa. He has written about technology interactions with culture, social justice, inequity, human presence, sustainability, and every-day life. He is research and development consultant for a computer simulation that won the SAGE/CSWE Award for Innovative Teaching in Social Work Education (2019). He continues to write and to be an active reviewer for several journals.
Lea Wolf
Digital Competence: Social Workers in the Digital World
Hunter College, CUNY
Lea Wolf is a PhD student in Social Welfare at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York. Her research focuses on the use of technology to deliver care, and on how evolving forms of care advance equity or amplify inequality.
Brianna Lombardi
Social Work Answers the (VIDEO) call: Tele-behavioral Health Use During COVID-19
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dr. Brianna M. Lombardi PhD MSW is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and a Research Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She serves as the Deputy Director for the Carolina Health Workforce Research Center at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research. Dr. Lombardi’s research focuses on understanding how health systems deploy interprofessional teams to address the physical health, behavioral health, and social needs of marginalized populations through integrated models of care. Carolina Health Workforce Research Center: https://www.shepscenter.unc.ed...
Christopher Thyberg
Social Work Answers the (VIDEO) call: Tele-behavioral Health Use During COVID-19
University of Pittsburgh
Christopher is a doctoral candidate at the University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work. His dissertation is focused on the role of teacher colorblind racial attitudes on racial discipline disparities within schools utilizing a restorative justice framework. His research interests focus largely on adolescent mental health, adverse childhood experiences, trauma-informed services, restorative justice, intersectional school based interventions, and the school-to-prison pipeline. Christopher has years of experience working as a therapist with children and their families, which actively informs his research.
Susan Elswick
Supporting the Virtual Needs of Students and Community through University Partnerships
University of Memphis
She is an Associate Professor who has over 16 years of clinical mental health experience. Research includes school social work and informatics in SW.
Sarah Caliboso-Soto
Supporting the Virtual Needs of Students and Community through University Partnerships
University of Southern California
David Wilkerson
Supporting the Virtual Needs of Students and Community through University Partnerships
Indiana University
Steve David
Don’t Share That! Information Literacy for a Healthier Democracy
Ohio State University
Steve David is the first advocacy director at the Ohio State University College of Social Work. His work focuses on creating opportunities for students, social work practitioners and community partners to engage in advocacy and policy practice. Steve has developed trainings on activism and advocacy practice, and conducted workshops to equip social workers with skills to discuss voter engagement with clients in their existing practice settings. He also coordinates the college’s annual DC advocacy trip, which takes students to Washington DC to elevate social work issues on the federal level. He and his wife are both licensed social workers and live in south Columbus with their two children. Contact him at david.54@osu.edu.