“I think that social workers, unfortunately, have to create a good amount of fiction to defend their work and to translate their work to the entities that. . . pay attention to their work and monitor their work.”
“Once you start to do things differently you start to realize there is another way to live life, and in this other way to live life my addiction or this stronghold that food has on me starts to dissipate a little bit more with every better decision...
“The two big things we focus on are workforce wellness and that is no small thing; we don’t have a lot of good research around what strategies organizations can put in place to keep our workforce well enough to provide those services; and we really...
“[E]motional eating is all about any instance where you find yourself feeling something, be it positive or negative and instead of. . . allowing yourself to feel that emotion and work through it, that food becomes a part of how you. . . assess that...
“I think these types of policies shed light on the charter of power within municipalities and how that can reproduce racial and class disparities.”
[T]he pathways to prison for most women includes a history of trauma, either sexual trauma; physical violence; . . . substance use; and mental health. . . Some of. . .the policies and procedures that are in place will often re-traumatize many of...
“I also think that one of the things that social workers are really good at doing is bringing people together, and implementation is an issue or an approach that I see requires bringing different stakeholders together.”
“I really encourage social workers to work with computer scientists, i.t. people, and engineering people. If you look at a lot of the apps that are being developed for people with psychosocial issues or to improve their psychosocial wellbeing, a lot...
“A lot of the success of future coalitions and collaborations is dependent on its leadership. . . [Leaders] act as linchpins for all of these other different predictors that influence the success of a coalition. Ultimately, effective leaders need to...
“Youth participatory action research says that youth are the experts about their own lives, and they know what issues are important in their own community and they probably know things that could be done to fix it. . . [W]e are harnessing the...