FROM THE ARCHIVES - SEPT 19, 2020
This past spring, sponsored by the National Network of Social Work Management, Fordham University School of Social Service, and Portland State School of Social Work sponsored a 3-part webinar as part of the NNSWM annual conference. This is a good place to hear the fundamentals of futures thinking and foresight practice as it applies to social work. You can check it out (and download slides) here.
Laura Nissen Ph.D. LMSW
CADC III Professor
Social Work Futures Lab Founder
With a long-term commitment to innovative systems change, Laura Nissen has worked with futures practice and lenses throughout her career. She credits a futures lens with the extended and continuous success of the Reclaiming Futures initiative and its ability to energize and provide architecture to a complex and interdisciplinary juvenile justice reform effort. She’s a former Dean and current Professor of Social Work at Portland State. She’s the first inaugural Presidential Futures Fellow at Portland State. Foresight practitioner and a Research Fellow with the Institute for the Future, and has spoken on futures thinking in social work and social change at the National Association of Deans and Directors of Schools of Social Work, and in numerous social work education, and community spaces.
