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Automation Squad

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AI for Social Workers

Robert MacKelfresh

By Robert MacKelfresh

Founder, Automation Squad

Provide social services and assistance to improve the social and psychological functioning of children and their families and to maximize the family well-being and the academic functioning of children. May assist parents, arrange adoptions, and find foster homes for abandoned or abused children. In schools, they address such problems as teenage pregnancy, misbehavior, and truancy. May also advise teachers.

Child, Family, and School Social Workers · O*NET 21-1021.00 · Job Zone 4 · sourced from the U.S. Department of Labor occupation database

Automation coverage

6 of 10tools on this list have an AI solution available today

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AI you can use for this job

14 matched to the tools child, family, and school social workers use. Showing 14.

The tools this job actually uses

10 documented for this occupation. Showing 10, hot technologies first. A filled dot means an AI solution exists for it.

  • Microsoft Accesshot
  • Microsoft Excelhot
  • Microsoft Office softwarehot
  • Microsoft Outlookhot
  • Microsoft PowerPointhot
  • Microsoft Wordhot
  • EasyCBM
  • Patient electronic medical record EMR software
  • Student information systems SIS software
  • Web browser software

What this job involves

21 documented tasks, most important first. Showing 21.

  1. Place children in foster or adoptive homes, institutions, or medical treatment centers.
  2. Maintain case history records and prepare reports.
  3. Recommend temporary foster care and advise foster or adoptive parents.
  4. Interview clients individually, in families, or in groups, assessing their situations, capabilities, and problems to determine what services are required to meet their needs.
  5. Serve as liaisons between students, homes, schools, family services, child guidance clinics, courts, protective services, doctors, and other contacts to help children who face problems, such as disabilities, abuse, or poverty.
  6. Counsel students whose behavior, school progress, or mental or physical impairment indicate a need for assistance, diagnosing students' problems and arranging for needed services.
  7. Develop and review service plans in consultation with clients and perform follow-ups assessing the quantity and quality of services provided.
  8. Address legal issues, such as child abuse and discipline, assisting with hearings and providing testimony to inform custody arrangements.
  9. Counsel parents with child rearing problems, interviewing the child and family to determine whether further action is required.
  10. Consult with parents, teachers, and other school personnel to determine causes of problems, such as truancy and misbehavior, and to implement solutions.
  11. Evaluate personal characteristics and home conditions of foster home or adoption applicants.
  12. Arrange for medical, psychiatric, and other tests that may disclose causes of difficulties and indicate remedial measures.
  13. Conduct social research.
  14. Refer clients to community resources for services, such as job placement, debt counseling, legal aid, housing, medical treatment, or financial assistance, and provide concrete information, such as where to go and how to apply.
  15. Counsel individuals, groups, families, or communities regarding issues including mental health, poverty, unemployment, substance abuse, physical abuse, rehabilitation, social adjustment, child care, or medical care.
  16. Provide, find, or arrange for support services, such as child care, homemaker service, prenatal care, substance abuse treatment, job training, counseling, or parenting classes to prevent more serious problems from developing.
  17. Collect supplementary information needed to assist client, such as employment records, medical records, or school reports.
  18. Supervise other social workers.
  19. Lead group counseling sessions that provide support in such areas as grief, stress, or chemical dependency.
  20. Serve on policy-making committees, assist in community development, and assist client groups by lobbying for solutions to problems.
  21. Determine clients' eligibility for financial assistance.
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