1.5 Hours / 1.5 CEs

On Demand | Self-Paced Professional Training

This on-demand professional training program on AI for Social Work Organizations: Strategic Planning and Policy Implementation for Your Agency is presented by Marina Badillo-Diaz, DSW.

This program is tailored for social work organizations seeking to strategically implement AI into their agency or organization. This session guides you through an AI Implementation Roadmap structured into four pivotal phases, supporting your integration of generative AI into social work practices aligned with your organization’s vision for providing social work services. 

The program reviews these 4 critical phases:

  1. Initiating Foundational Knowledge and Data Collection
  2. Enhancing Staff Professional Development 
  3. Policy Creation and Effective Dissemination
  4. Sustained Assessment and Evaluation


During the session, participants are guided to a personalized action plan offering a clear, actionable strategy for integrating AI within your agency’s existing structures and service models. Participants are provided a free tool kit on implementing AI policies and strategic planning for social work organizations, including examples of assessment and data collection, focus group discussions, AI policy templates, and professional development resources.

This program is intended for the intermediate career level of a clinician or social worker. This is ideal for administrators/leaders of agencies and organizations

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:

  • 1 Describe the essential components of an effective AI implementation roadmap for strategic planning
  • 2 Describe strategies for creating foundational AI policies and guidelines within your organization or agency
  • 3 Describe ways to integrate generative AI into your organization’s vision and strategic plan to improve service delivery and outcomes

  • Intended Audience

    This program is designed for clinicians, social workers, administrators, and leaders who are responsible for guiding agencies and organizations. It is suitable for professionals who oversee programs, manage teams, or play a key role in shaping organizational practices and policies.


    Examples of Relevant Professionals:
    • Mental Health Professionals
    • Social Workers
    • Clinical Supervisors
    • Program Directors
    • Agency Administrators
    • Organizational Leaders
    • Behavioral Health Managers

  • Experience Level

    This training is designed for licensed and pre-licensed mental health professionals at varying stages of experience with AI integration in social work organizations.

    • Beginner: Participants are new to AI concepts in social work and seek foundational knowledge on AI terminology, ethical considerations, and initial steps for implementation.

    • Intermediate: Participants have some experience with technology integration in social work settings and are ready to develop and apply AI policies, lead staff training, and align AI strategies with organizational goals.

  • Practice Setting

    They practice in agency-based organizational environments where they oversee programs, manage teams, and guide practice and policy across service delivery systems. These settings are integrating generative AI into operations, aligning data collection, staff development, policy implementation, and ongoing evaluation with the organization’s mission.


    Examples of Practice Settings:
    • Community mental health centers and outpatient clinics
    • Hospital behavioral health departments
    • County or state human services agencies
    • Nonprofit social service organizations
    • School or university counseling and social work programs
    • Integrated primary care–behavioral health systems
    • Telehealth and digital behavioral health providers
    • Residential or supportive housing programs

Presented By

Marina Badillo-Diaz, DSW Consultant

Dr. Badillo-Diaz is an experienced school administrator and counseling director with a demonstrated history of working in community mental health and in education as a social worker. Currently, Dr. Badillo-Diaz is a consultant focusing on the training of educators and social workers with MABD Consulting. She is also an adjunct professor and board member of the National School Social Work Association of America. She is also the author of the blog, “The AI Social Worker”, a 21st Century Skills and AI guide for Social Workers. Her areas of interest include 21st-century skills, social-emotional learning programming, school social work practice, education, youth mental health, clinical supervision for social workers, AI Applications, data management, and career development.

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CE Sponsorship Information

Palo Alto University, Continuing & Professional Studies (CONCEPT) is approved by, recognized by, or maintains sponsorship provider status with the following boards and agencies. We maintain responsibility for all content in our CE/CPD programs. For more information, visit here. 

  1. American Psychological Association (APA): Approved sponsor of continuing education for psychologists.

  2. Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB): Approved continuing education provider (ACE program, Provider #1480), 11/22/2023–11/22/2026.

  3. Canadian Psychological Association (CPA): Approved to sponsor continuing education for psychologists.

  4. National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC): Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP No. 7190).



Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT), is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT), SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0356 and the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0073. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6811. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. CONCEPT Professional Training, #1480, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. CONCEPT Professional Training maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 11/22/23-11/22/26. Social workers completing this course receive (clinical or social work ethics) continuing education credits.