Kate LaForge (@kate_laforge) 's Twitter Profile
Kate LaForge

@kate_laforge

Med Soc PhD Student @UCSF 📚. Qualitative and mixed methods. Suicide + crisis services + tech research 💿. Art fan 🎨. Climber 🧗. Mom 👧. Pear enthusiast 🍐.

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Mad In America (@mad_in_america) 's Twitter Profile Photo

20 Concrete Steps to Achieving System Change By Robert Nikkel, MSW I offer the following 20 suggestions for advocates who want to get something done and not just vent their quite justifiable criticisms of the mental health system. madinamerica.com/2022/09/20-ste…

Jonathan Singer 🎙️ (@socworkpodcast) 's Twitter Profile Photo

NEW: Provisional CDC Injury Center data shows USA suicide deaths⬆️in 2021, reversing a two-year trend. Although suicide increased in nearly every age group, the largest increase (8%) was among youth 15 - 24. Every month needs to be #SuicidePreventionMonth. abcnews.go.com/Health/number-…

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“Whether the apps actually improve mental health isn’t really clear. Research to support their efficacy is scant and has mostly been conducted by the companies that have created them.” 💻 The Problem With Mental Health Bots wired.com/story/mental-h… via WIRED

Kate LaForge (@kate_laforge) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Great work furthering our understanding of participating in research on suicide and centering the participant perspective ✨

Kate LaForge (@kate_laforge) 's Twitter Profile Photo

An amazing upcoming event on “the rush to create new algorithms that can even assess or predict a diagnosis of mental illness” 🧠 cdt.org/event/big-brot…

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🚨Internet speed has serious implications for tele-health access and equity.🚨 “To put it plainly, we found these providers offered the worst deals to people who are the most in need of affordable prices for high-quality, high-speed internet.” themarkup.org/show-your-work…

Dr. Quenette L. Walton (@drqlwalton) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨New Pub Alert🚨 Interested in knowing what it means to help Black women feel safe in qual interviews?! Check out our new piece Priscilla Kennedy Dr. Bunmi Basirat Oyewuwo, LMSW & Phylicia Allen journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/16…

Kate LaForge (@kate_laforge) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“Exit is not benign withdrawal” - A fabulous piece on the current state of technology, politics, and demigods 👩🏼‍💻harpers.org/archive/2023/0…

Leslie Jamison (@lsjamison) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Impostor Syndrome! It's here. I set out to write the biography of an idea, and--like anything worth thinking about--found myself surprised many times. newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…

Taylor M. Cruz (@taylormcruz) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Check out our recent engagingSTS @[email protected] article on community resistance to automation in LA! estsjournal.org/index.php/ests… Published with an amazing team of The CSU co-researchers who brought so much insight to the project. Companion piece to our zine AI For Whose Good? with Sophie Wang // shuf

Check out our recent <a href="/eSTSjournal/">engagingSTS @ESTSjournal@mastodon.world</a> article on community resistance to automation in LA!
estsjournal.org/index.php/ests…

Published with an amazing team of <a href="/calstate/">The CSU</a> co-researchers who brought so much insight to the project. Companion piece to our zine AI For Whose Good? with <a href="/shufshenwang/">Sophie Wang // shuf</a>