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“I teach the best and learn the best when I can bring my full and authentic self to the classroom. [T]hinking about how do I create spaces where students can bring their diverse religious and political ideologies forward is important”

“Continuous quality assurance in Child Welfare is really a client-centered philosophy. We have limited resources and we need to make sure that the services that we’re providing families and children are actually contributing to positive results for those families.”

"We know this thing about trauma, what do we do about it?”

[I]n wilderness therapy it used to be more about slowly breaking them (clients) down and then building that back up, but that model has changed over the years. It is much more of a relationally based model of working with young people and really just being surrounded in nature. Helping to settle people out and to move all the distractions of day to day living.”

I asked them(survivors) what justice would look like if they were ever consulted. What would make things right for them? [T]he thing that they most wanted was acknowledgment. Not just from the perpetrator or not even primarily from the perpetrator but mainly from the bystanders from the community.”

“[The] greatest thing that I learned from being in local government... is that in my mind local government is where the rubber hits the road... local government controls all those aspects that many of us take for granted in our communities.”

“[W]hen someone experiences a therapist as being empathic and open and willing to lend an ear, what we sometimes see is that people will just try to purge themselves of their traumatic past. . . [T]his can be a good thing in part because they haven't really shared many of these painful stories with anyone before, but the problem that I see with some of these folks when they do this is that. . . af...

“[A] technology social enterprise with a social mission is the enterprise that makes sense because it creates investment assets that attract and generate wealth, provides high reward opportunities for subordinated groups – like women and minorities, it can scale ideas that disrupt the established order in any given industry, and thrives from cross disciplinary and innovative problem solving.”

“Part of the reason that we think racial disparities may exist in some treatment courts is because African-American participants felt that they never had a safe, confidential environment to get true good quality treatment. [I] propose a reduction in collaboration between treatment providers and the drug court system.”

"Centering Pregnancy . . ., as an evidence based and empirically supported practice, has always been very open to try out new interventions that may help new mothers. So I see Centering Pregnancy as a wonderful opportunity. . . for university community collaborations in working together to help new mothers have successful pregnancies and to have infants born at full term so that we can have happy,...

“[Libraries:] are they only a place where one goes to check out books or movies or access the internet, or are they also a place that can serve people more robustly in a very diverse way that we didn't anticipate before?”

“I think it is important for every practitioner in a long term care setting to examine their own practice and strive to make every encounter with a resident a little bit more trauma informed than it was before incorporating the principles in everything that they do with residents every day.”

“[T]here’s two big buckets of climate change related work. We talked about adaptation, helping people cope with and adapt to what is already here. . . [T]hen there's mitigation which is reducing the problem, preventing the problem, [and] lowering the greenhouse gas emissions in the first place. And that's an area that social work has done very little on. . . . I think there is space there to do mu...

“[T]he Portuguese system is comprehensive and integrated, and so all of the agencies. . . and the principles [are] one big integrated system. Where in the United States, we really do not have a unified message. . . [T]he Portuguese system really embraces, "We're trying to figure out what's going on here and solve the problem. . .” [F]or us, it is about punishment for a crime, behavior, whatever it...

“What we need to do better. . . and what geospatial technologies can help us to understand better are the interactions between individuals and their context and some of the nuances to those relationships. . . that could help to not only drive what our research agenda is and what we know about how those interactions shape health outcomes,but also . . . indicate ways in which we might produce interv...

“Certainly, there is a lot of work that looks at each of these issues on their own, so the studies about child welfare or about homelessness or about educational difficulties. There is even a fair amount of work that looks at issues from the perspective of, say, two systems, so for example, how kids experiencing homelessness do in school and the challenges they have or how kids in foster care migh...

“[S]chools of social work don't emphasize perinatal mood disorder as much anymore, and social workers are the leading group providing therapeutic care in the United States. So I would ask [that] schools of social work begin to focus on that again.”

“I think it's so important to see that, [regarding] our childhood environment, we have a mechanism within our genetics to adapt to our environment within our lifetime. If you have an environment that says this is the way to thrive in this environment, your genes will turn on or off or express differently so that you can thrive in that environment. But, of course, that really can lead to so much mo...

“I believe, as a researcher, as a practitioner, and as a professor, . . . now it is more important than ever to really understand that we have a responsibility to our clients and to our field to be engaged in these policy levels–in policy development and policy implementation.”

“We often are underestimating our clients’ ability to use technology and their access to technology.”

“So psychological [self-sufficiency] is less about just somebody's mindset or their internal motivation alone, but is largely this process of how one would become empowered over time and throughout the whole life course to reach goals as a piece of any type of outcome or goals that they conquer.”

“[W]e know from the research that LGBTQ youth, as a population, really experience disproportionate risks to their well-being. So, for example, they frequently experience family and peer rejection, discrimination, bullying and harassment, and many other forms of violence and victimization due to their minority sexual or gender identities.”

“[W]e wanted to look at how. . . attitudes about LGBT people differ between teachers at rural middle and high schools compared to those teaching at an urban middle and high school setting. We also wanted to look at how. . . the teacher’s observances of anti-LGBT behaviors among the students and faculty bodies differ between rural and urban settings. And finally, we also wanted to look at [whether]...

“Gentrification can be thought of as a form of community loss.”

"Interventions are really needed in the field of social work to help address some of these disparities, so for example, using a patient-centered approach in discussing cost-related nonadherence as well as medication concerns or insuring that we are assessing for cost-related nonadherence when we are working with older clients. . .”