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...
“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...
“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...
“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...
“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...
“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”