“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...
"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...
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...
“[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...
“[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...
“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...
"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...
“[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?”