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“If you are stripped of representation ... your worth is not being recognized. It’s another form of erasure.”

"What I think is at stake is the future of social work. The future of the profession and what it is and who we are as social workers and who we say we're going to be."

“Having just one supportive adult for a young LGBTQ person can decrease their suicide risk by as much as 40%.”

“We cannot close our eyes to the fact that we inhabit this incredibly precarious moment… there is urgent work to do.”

“If your patients aren’t telling you about this stuff that they’re doing because they don’t think you know enough about it, you wouldn’t be able to handle it or you couldn’t relate to it, that’s a problem.”

By working together, social work and public interest technology fields ensure that advanced technology is not just powerful or profitable, but also equitable and ethically sound.” – Soobin Kim, PhD

"I think a lot of instructors are just trying to survive. They are just trying to survive the semester without any sort of conflict with students."

“[The DSM] misses so much when we think about folks from the BIPOC community, when we’re looking at anyone that is not white and predominantly male. It’s really not speaking to that group.” — Lisa Borneman

“What I want people to understand is that you don’t have to earn joy, you don’t have to have money to have joy. You don’t have to do anything in order to know that it exists within you.”

“He said, ‘I don’t have a learning disability. I learn really well. I have a school disability.’”

"Migration is not a crime; it’s actually a natural, fundamental part of human existence.” — Laurie Cook Heffron, PhD

“Our task is to resist authoritarianism and to cultivate liberatory alternatives to set agendas as social workers. We need to be agenda setters.”

“I was taught social justice meant more services. Now I understand that social justice means we don’t need so many services.”

"Any place that you would show up and advocate for your own child, now you show up and you advocate for people and families and children of color, too."

“Keeping the ‘why’ central — the ‘why’ we talk about religion and spirituality is because we care about the clients. Oftentimes, when we get caught up in our own discomfort, we avoid these conversations.”

"When we think about oral health, we really silo it rather than thinking of it as we have one body; we have one health. But oral health is really the gateway into someone's whole health.” –Candace Ziglor, DSW

“Abortion is so stigmatized, controversial and a hot button issue that even social work has been hesitant to make it a primary component of the things we talk about and advocate for, even though reproductive health care affects everything.”

“Having conversations about important issues that affect our lives is how we address the social determinants of our health because it nurtures and cultivates community and a sense of belonging.”

“It’s easy to get overwhelmed and paralyzed and not do anything, but if you can, connect and start to take action. You will feel better if you feel like you are part of the solution.”

“Gamification has this purpose of increasing motivation and engagement to influence or change behavior with an aim of achieving a particular outcome you have in mind.”

"Elected office is just like any other social work job. I think sometimes there’s this fear you have to have a law degree or be a businessperson — completely not the case."

“Mind-altering, psychoactive compounds and plants have been used by humans for thousands and thousands of years. There are Indigenous traditions that have kept that alive over the centuries and still to this day.”

“There are social workers … that declare that spirituality is a vital part of human development. My question there is, I cannot think of, off the top of my head, any other component of human behavior and human development that we accept simply by declaration.”

"We can certainly talk about having folks at the table, but once they're at the table, are we making sure that their voices are heard? Are we making sure that we hear where they're coming from?"

“It’s critically important for us as a profession to understand how computer science and folks who are doing AI in health and mental health are thinking about the problems that we’re thinking of. Those engineers are 100% coming for you.”