Breakout Session 1c: EHRs, AI & Social Work: Charting A Path Forward in A Fast-Changing Environment
Includes a Live Web Event on 11/05/2025 at 1:15 PM (EST)
Technology is impacting the practice of social work. On the one hand, the National Association of Social Workers is one of the founding members of Behavioral Health Information Technology Coalition seeking to provide line social workers with health IT systems. At the same time, new artificial intelligence chatbots present both opportunities and threats to the profession. But there is a clear path forward.
Alfonso Guida Jr., J.D.
President & CEO
Guide Consulting Services, Inc.
Al Guida founded Guide Consulting Services 25 years ago to pursue policy change on behalf of mental health and addiction treatment providers while seeking to improve the lives of persons living with mental health and substance use disorders. Over that time period, the firm has participated in array of public policy debates including behavioral health parity, the 988-crisis line and improving Medicare benefits.
