Author Archives: Cordie

How Social Work Frustration Sparked a Tech Revolution – My interview with Justice Reyes

Justice Reyes: Cordie, welcome! I have to know—was MyPower born from inspiration, or pure frustration? [...]

‘MyPower’: An app to improve communication between children’s social workers and families – acceptability evaluation study

Authors: Josh Behan-Devlin, Dr Dharman Jeyasingham, Dr Helen Hawley-Hague Division of Nursing, Midwifery and Social [...]

MyPowerApp® – How tech can support change for families in need of help if co-created with frontline experts and end users?

I have fuzzy memories of driving down the dead end road where the Caritas have [...]

Why it’s important to look at innovation in children’s social care

How can technology help systems reform from the ground up? “The purpose of social [care]  [...]

Walking my Why – Reframing Vulnerability and Unleashing People Power

Brené Brown taught me and millions of people that vulnerability is uncertainty risk and emotional [...]

Can app technology support social workers, children and families to work together on achieving behavioural change?

Apps are widely used across many sectors to help us with hard and difficult change [...]

5 Clarifying Questions To Prepare Good Feedback

Making decisions to feed back, challenge or critique can be surprisingly hard. I naturally used [...]

Mental Health Leave – I’m Off on One!

Taking care of your mental health is super-important. And sometimes that means taking time off [...]