Artificial Intelligence in Social Work: Ethics, Perspectives, and Practice

Social Work Online CE Institute

Artificial Intelligence in Social Work: Ethics, Perspectives, and Practice

Date and Time:January 23, 2026, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (Eastern Time)

Credit(s): 1 Ethics

Cost: Non-Member: $35.00; Member: $25.00; Specialty Practice Sections: $0.00

Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming human services and social work practice, creating new challenges and opportunities across micro, mezzo, and macro levels. This webinar brings together three professionals to discuss the ethical considerations, diverse perspectives, and emerging practices related to AI in social work.

Presenters will share real-world examples of how AI is being used in clinical, community, and organizational settings, and consider its impact on client well-being, confidentiality, and equity. Participants will explore strategies for integrating AI tools responsibly into practice while maintaining professional standards and values. The session will also provide a space to critically reflect on how AI intersects with advocacy, policy, collaboration, and systemic change.

Attendees will leave with resources, practical insights, and critical questions to guide their own engagement with AI in social work.

Learning Objectives:

• Examine different perspectives on the role of artificial intelligence in social work, including opportunities, risks, and diverse practitioner viewpoints.
• Identify ethical considerations and challenges associated with integrating artificial intelligence into social work practice.
• Apply strategies for responsibly incorporating AI tools into social work while maintaining professional values, confidentiality, and equity.

Presenters:

Marina Angela Badillo-Diaz, DSW, LCSW
Dr. Badillo-Diaz is an experienced former school administrator and counseling director with a demonstrated history of working in community mental health and in education as a social worker. She is the founder of MABD Consulting, where she conducts training for educators and social workers to ethically and responsibly integrate artificial intelligence (AI) into their practice. Dr. Badillo-Diaz is also an adjunct professor, teaching at New York University, Columbia University, Hunter College, and Louisiana State University. She is the author of "The AI Social Worker", a widely recognized blog that serves as a 21st-century skills and AI guide for social workers. Her teaching portfolio includes courses for NYU’s Silver School of Social Work postgraduate certificate programs, specifically focusing on school social work practice, data and technology, and AI in mental health. She currently serves on the NASW-NY State Chapter Board as secretary and is a former northeastern rep board member of the School Social Work Association of America. She has presented nationally and internationally on AI and social work practice, including engagements with the National School Social Work Association of America, the Canadian Association for Social Work, and the School Social Work Association of America, and has conducted trainings for over 3,500 social workers across the United States and Canada. Dr. Badillo-Diaz’s areas of expertise include 21st-century skills, social-emotional learning, school social work practice, youth mental health, clinical supervision, AI applications, and data management. Her current research explores how school social workers are integrating AI into their daily practice.

Brittannee Jones, LMSW
Brittannee C. Jones is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) with 11 years of experience as a Certified School Social Worker in an urban school district in Georgia. She also serves as an adjunct instructor at Kennesaw State University and is a Doctoral Candidate in the Social Work Policy, Planning, and Administration Ph.D. program at Clark Atlanta University, with an expected graduation in May 2026.

Her research focuses on chronic absenteeism among secondary students in urban school districts, grounded in an Afrocentric Perspective and Ecological Systems Theory. At her school site, she is developing an AI-driven data tracking tool to improve the accuracy of monthly documentation and analysis of school social work interventions using the SWARM (Social Work Action and Response Matrix) framework.

Brittannee is an active member of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), where she serves on the School Social Work Specialty Practice Section Committee. She is also a member of the Black Doctoral Network (BDN), the School Social Work Association of America (SSWAA), and the School Social Workers Association of Georgia (SSWAG).

Kashera Guy Robinson, DSW, LICSW, School Social Worker

Kashera Guy Robinson, DSW, LICSW has worked in the social work profession for nearly 30 years. She served as a school social worker in a school district in the Atlanta, GA area for almost 20 years, and presently serves as Director of Field Education/Assistant Clinical Professor at Auburn University at Montgomery. She is a member of the School Social Work Association of America (SSWAA) where she presently serves as the Southern Region Representative. Kashera also holds memberships with the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) where she served as a committee member on the School Social Work Specialty Practice Section (SPS) from 2020-2024, the School Social Work Association of Alabama (SSWAAL), and the School Social Workers Association of Georgia (SSWAG) where she served as School Social Worker of the Year, 2023.