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News Brief: RIC’s Atrévete Center Creates AI-Powered Simulations in Spanish

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“This is an innovative, cutting-edge approach to teaching clinical skills to social work students.”

By Gita Brown

Rhode Island College’s Atrévete Center of Excellence for Latinx/Hispanic Social Work Practice* is developing four AI-powered simulations in Spanish so that Spanish-speaking students can practice their clinical skills in their native language.  

“I am proud that our center will be developing a resource that Spanish-speaking students in many Schools of Social Work can access,” says RIC Professor of Social Work Jayashree Nimmagadda, who is principal investigator on this project. “This is an innovative cutting-edge approach to teaching clinical skills to social work students, and RIC is at the forefront of this technology.”

Atrévete partnered with the online learning platform Simucase to develop the simulations. Actors from the Providence-based Teatro ECAS role-played as clients, and two Latinx clinicians role-played as social workers.

Atrevete Center
Front row, sitting, from left: M.S.W. clinician Jennifer Gaviria and actress Catherine Cardenas. Back row, standing, from left: M.S.W. clinician Maria Terrero Kamara, RIC Dean of the School of Social Work Samuel Terrazas, Professor of Social Work Jayasharee Nimmagadda and actress Miosotis Ihelefeld.

 

* This project is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under grant number D34HP49231 and Bureau of Health Workforce. This information or content and conclusions are those of the author and should not be construed as the official position or policy of, nor should any endorsements be inferred by HRSA, HHS or the U.S. government.
 

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