"We have an opportunity that goes way beyond a criminal offense. We have an opportunity to not only heal and rebuild individuals and children, but to rebuild families. And I think that the real notion was to rebuild communities.”
“When clients first show up, just inviting them to go out and do something with the horses, whether it be something like just meeting them, if they’re having issues with relationships, well, here is a bunch of relationships in this space that they...
“The basic idea behind the Basic Income Model is that a floor of economic security should be available to everyone in a given political community – a province or state or country - and that this kind of economic support available to all should be at...
“[Sustainability] means that future generations are not compromised by the decisions that we make today. So, going forward several generations, individuals, families, communities will still be able to have levels of well-being that compromised by...
You can’t leave something that became a part of who and what you are. Not when you like it, not when you enjoy it, not when you see the results of that. Sometimes, we stumble about, but from that stumbling comes a lot of smiles, and a lot of active...
“There was so much talk about how to improve quality for patients that I realized that, “Wait, how can we do this if the workforce is so worn, torn, and tired?” That, maybe if we started with them, maybe if we created a more resilient workforce...
“I really stress very strongly that, as a social worker, if you are going to integrate spirituality into your work you have to find out where you are in your own spirituality. And you have to do that kind of in a formal way so that you really are...
“What we’ve discovered is that [technology] has completely crept in. It is a part of the lives of social workers in their professional face-to-face work whether they have chosen it or not. And, because it has kind of happened before policies or...
“I really stress very strongly that, as a social worker, if you are going to integrate spirituality into your work you have to find out where you are in your own spirituality. And you have to do that kind of in a formal way so that you really are...
"What we found is that if a school had a crisis team, and if that person was part of the team and had helped develop or knew that they had a very well-developed or comprehensive response plan, and that they exercised that plan at least once a year...