“One of the ideas here is that we're also helping to connect researchers with one another [and] that we're able to engage in more of that collaborative work [. It] all ties back to the importance of creating these partnerships with policy makers and...
“Social workers should be focused on female service members and female veterans in particular because their needs may be a little different than their male counterparts. Their experiences might be a little different than their male counterparts.”
“I think it's a real opportunity to bring all of our social work skills to bear in a more integrated way to help the highest risk groups to be able to truly transform bodies of individuals, families, communities, and promotes societal wellbeing...
“I would like to tell my younger friends who are studying social work or social entrepreneurship. . . [they] should not be scared of finance. They should not be scared of numbers, mathematics, [and] statistics. It's very easy, not because I have...
“Our results reinforce previous research that indicates it is common for youth who are LGBTQ to report being kicked out of their homes as their primary reason for experiencing homelessness. So. . . when [social workers] are engaging with families...
“We use the term social justice. . . We talk about social justice. . . What does that mean? [W]hat I describe as social justice may not be what the student sitting next to me describes as social justice.”
“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...
