Required Learning Practicum — 1-Hour Mentoring with LCSW for Alliant University

Each student presents in the same order: start with your Lifeline, in plain words anyone can understand; show what you have on your site; the group gives feedback. Before next week, every student also takes the feedback out of the room: share your app with at least one person outside this group and get their feedback. The goal of that step: your app has to work for the people it serves, not only for this group. A person outside the room uses it fresh, without our context, and shows you what is clear, what is missing, and what does not work. Bring their feedback back next week, and use it in your next build. Art opened with two updates. The polls are open in every state; if you are not registered, this is a good time — he voted early over the weekend. And the follow-up email that went out after Saturday's meeting gives everyone more help and a clear structure on the platform, with more resources now aligned to the LCSW program standards and to other programs.

Adawna presented her app for people leaving incarceration in California, built on CalAIM and InmateAid information. People released after long sentences have to start over on nearly everything. The roadmap puts the steps in order: first a driver's license or ID, then a Social Security card — both are needed for CalFresh or general assistance — with sections for older adults and a workforce section. Find Resources gives locations for the county the person is in, with a PDF guide to what each program requires. A community area lets people talk with others in the same spot, and an action-plan checklist keeps the steps in order. Her Lifeline: "Getting resources to the newly released incarcerated." Raymond suggested tightening it to two words: "Re-entry resources." Feedback: Art will move the app into the Voice Up platform and invite her to it there, because on public Base44 anyone can open "Edit with Base44" and clone it. Dr. Nestor asked her to simulate using it as a client would, end to end; her two CalAIM colleagues will test it on a real case. Dr. Nestor also raised a revenue path — charge organizations to post and market on the app — and Jeff suggested a hiring layer matching people released with trade skills to businesses looking for them.

Diana reworked her Lifeline from navigation to emotions: she wants to help children of immigrants whose families have faced deportation and family separation explore their emotions. Work since Saturday: safety parameters with four views — admin; children under 13, who have no account but can still read content; teenagers 14 to 17; and adults. The site tour covered the workbook (journaling on coping with emotions, cultural pride, and setting goals, with a goal coach), the community area (curated stories only, filtered by what is on the reader's mind, with resources connected right after the stories), the resources map (shelters, schools, newcomer centers, legal aid, mental health clinics), the binational guide for moving in both directions, and a Baja California healthcare section covering IMSS, the CURP number, and enrollment. She signed up for Muse during Saturday's planning meeting and used it to turn her questions into prompts for Base44; the homepage picture was generated for her. Feedback: Dr. Nestor praised the work and asked whether she has simulated it as a client — she has not yet. Raymond suggested a screening step at the start that routes each visitor to what they need, ending in a step-by-step page they can pull up. Art celebrated her leap with Muse and said that when the site is done, Voice Up will collaborate to get it into a lot of school districts, because it addresses an issue schools do not know how to talk about.

Carah showed a new logo and about seven health tools added since last week, following feedback from Dr. Nestor and Raymond. The Appointment Advocate is a sheet to fill out before an appointment, with an AI helper that turns a user's questions into medical terms they can explain to a health professional. The Care Navigator takes symptoms and finds which kind of doctor, and which area, to see. The Health Knowledge Library holds resources and articles, each with an AI summary in simple terms. The learning modules (Sprouts, Blossoms, Bloom) are still in place. Profiles are personal only for users over 13; no information is saved for children under 13, and a parent must sign off before anyone under 18 uses it. Her Lifeline: "To connect teen girls to education, resources and advocacy tools." Feedback: Raymond loves the updates and the safe place it gives girls to research, with one stipulation — make clear these are suggestions, and users should reach out to their own providers and doctors. He also noted its value where there are few doctors nearby, and that it teaches users to do their homework so they can question a doctor, who does not know everything. Dr. Angee said the page shows she took her time and put her heart into it, and Dr. Nestor agreed the app will be very useful. Carah sees it used in schools, in health classes, or for personal use.

Sabrena told Dr. Nestor she completed the IPP summary she had promised for the app, so Dr. Nestor can preview it — the item requested in last week's feedback. She could not upload her screenshots to the chat, so she will email them to Dr. Nestor and Art instead.

Art closed with where Voice Up stands. The platform has jumped ahead: Voice Up can now do what he thought would take two or three years, so the plan is to do it now. Voice Up knows people, organizations, and platforms looking for solutions to the very problems these students are solving, and the invitation stands: Voice Up will help each student take their idea further than they thought they could. In Dr. Nestor's words, if you are not invited to the table, create your own table — that is what Voice Up is doing. New pages sent out today focus on AI and social workers, with a state-by-state breakdown of how social workers are using AI; they are the main topic at the next meeting. Art encouraged everyone to use the Muse platform and to reflect on the meeting minutes there — the key is knowing how to talk to it, and Diana is already seeing what that unlocks. The group also celebrated Dr. Angee Gonzalez Rodriguez, who is running for public office as a candidate for alderman in Chicago's 26th Ward. The session adjourned at about 9:29 PM ET.