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“I'm very interested in helping physicians understand the big questions of what it means to be human, what it means to be a physician, and what it means to lead a good life in an effort to ensure, not only that all patients are treated with respect and dignity, but also that the practitioners themselves can practice self-care that helps their own mental health and also helps them flourish.”

“... Keep asking the tough questions and holding the child welfare system to a high standard, because both the families and the [social workers] need research that roots out the issues... and helps us work toward a fairer, more just child welfare system.”

"Social work is all about supporting people and navigating complex systems and supporting them with ensuring that they know their rights and enact their rights. [Voting] is an extension of that."

“At a certain point, the screen melts away… and [you're] in a genuine relationship with your therapist.”

“Trauma matters because trauma produces symptomology, both acute symptomology and deferred symptomology, and all of those symptoms impact learning and psychosocial development”

"Leadership is really important in helping different groups to recognize collaboration can be beneficial."

“We’re not just talking about White people here. We’re talking about Whiteness as a set of practices that’s steeped in replicating forms of dominance.”

"What has research shown to be the pros and the cons of marijuana legalization?"

"We’ve taught people what they should not say, but we haven’t taught them what they should say. So instead, they say nothing."

"Loan debt is growing, and a lot of students are in trouble."

“One of the reasons we started this program was to improve children’s placement stability. [W]e are seeing that participation in PC-Care is related to children staying in the home longer and having fewer placement disruptions.”

“You can look at ways of trying to reduce illicit opioids, and that’s not easy. [W]hat I think is more difficult, is looking at the reasons why people are using and becoming addicted to opioids in the first place.”

“All schools can incorporate this type of stimulation within the community. [I]t was something so worth the time and energy and the outcome was so successful and positive that I truly believe it is worth every ounce of energy and time put forth.”

“Implementation Science is about researching how we get evidence into practice.”

“If we can get some basic information out there to social workers about how to start having these conversations, we have the potential to make a big difference in the gun violence rates in our country.”

“COVID: 19 really created unprecedented challenges that very few of us had ever confronted and probably in reality we weren’t really prepared for. [I]t was the ultimate crisis to test our ability to be collaborative problem solvers”

Now that we are in the middle of a pandemic, child welfare agencies are faced with the incredible challenge of immediately shifting to a virtual workforce;moving all of their staff and operations out of the agency, establishing policies and protocols, and procedures for how to support a virtual workforce. While also ensuring the safety and well-being of children and families in their care, and the...

“ISS-USA, International Social Service USA is the American member of a network of social workers and lawyers working in about 130 countries around the world. [W]e serve more than seventy-five thousand families a year in the network, we work on issues primarily involving children and families that are separated across the border.”

“In our field and in many helping profession fields we have been very slow in getting outside of single race ways of engaging human experience... and I just think we have been really slow and disconnected in research and the development of our knowledge from the way that many social workers and many of us as people live and the complexity that we live, and so we continue to slice and dice racially...

“So many people believe that people end up in this hoarding situation because they come from a family line that suffered under the Depression. Billions of people went through the Depression and they didn’t hoard maladaptively... But some hoard adaptively. [T]he difference between adaptive hoarding and maladaptive hoarding is not necessarily the amount you buy, but that you use it.”

“Clearly there is always going to be some degree of turnover in child welfare, however, this study found time and time again that it was not just that turnover happened, but how turnover happened.”

“Shared value is a management strategy in which companies find business opportunities in social problems. [I]t focuses on solving social problems but also getting some competitive advantage.”

"The goal of [drug courts] is promoting empowerment and self-accountability in regards to this process of healing and change.”

“I became really aware that the way we help parents, will ultimately impact the children that they have.”

“When [social workers] talk about families, we often mean mothers –the kid and the mom. We forget about the dads. [I] want social workers to understand how parenting and the parent-child relationship works for Latino fathers. This way we can be better integrated into the practice [social workers] are doing”