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mSakhi and Swasthya Slate: User friendly digital communication tools for community health workers.

It is a well-known fact that the health of a person depends on where he/she lives. Access to health care services for poor individuals living in disadvantaged communities is a global problem spanning both developing and developed nations. Be it the slums of Nairobi, the densely populated low income communities of East Los Angeles or the remote tribal villages of…

Video assisted visitation in the family reunification process.

In this guest blog post Andrew Quinn describes the paper he presented at #husITa14.  The paper was selected for inclusion in the special husITa14 issue of the Journal of Technology in Human Services.   Recently, Quinn, Sage, and Tunseth surveyed child family workers about the use of video assisted visitation (VAV) in the family reunification process.  The catalyst for the research included issues…

Online activism: Indignation, inspiration, and interaction.

In this guest blog post, Rachel Gong describes the paper she presented at #husITa14.  The paper was selected for inclusion in the special husITa14 issue of the Journal of Technology in Human Services. What challenges, advantages, and opportunities does the web offer activists engaged in bringing about social change? This paper, part of a project that examines the use of the web…

Call for husITa Board member nominations

husITa are now accepting nominations for five open husITa Board positions. The Board has several exciting projects that will be undertaken this coming year, including the implementation of projects and plans to broaden and involve our membership.  To make a nomination (and to vote on Board membership) you must be a member of the husITa mailing list – please feel free to join).…

W3C group launches forum for human service data standards

There’s a growing recognition that for the human services to be effective, autonomous programs must learn to operate in concert, as though they were parts within a single whole. Making that happen will mean rewiring the sector to share more information across organizational borders. That, in turn, depends on developing strong data standards. There are already important efforts to build standards for…

Call for papers

Special Issue Journal of Technology in Human Services The Use of Technologies in Human Service Education and Training Special Issue Editors: Andrew Quinn, PhD, MSW, University of North Dakota I Melanie Sage, PhD, MSW, University of North Dakota The editors of this special edition of the Journal of Technology in Human Services, a Routledge/Taylor Francis publication, are seeking submissions related to the use of technology…