“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...
“The reality is we live in a very unjust society, and I see this current discussion around DACA [Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals] as an opportunity for all marginalized groups to come together to support one another and to put a stop to the...
“There is . . . evidence that older LGB adults are likely to face unique social, economic, and biological challenges that are related to a lifetime exposure to discrimination, violence, and stigma. They are also likely to experience rejection from a...
“Why would we be attacking. . . people who we know exactly where they live, we have their fingerprints, we have their pictures, we know everything about them, they are interested in staying and contributing to US society, they can lose their status...
“The dynamics of sexual violence, intimate partner violence, and power and control are similar regardless of your country of origin.”
"There is just not enough information out there, particularly on the research side of things, on how media is shaping young Black men’s views of themselves."
“We really need to start addressing the root of some of these issues, which, unfortunately, lead young people to being involved in trading and selling sex, in order to effectively get them out.”
“[With regard to the] resolution of anger - we are working at people’s core. And, if an individual sees himself getting angry all the time, or others tell him, “you know you are just angry all the time,” they start thinking that is their core. “At...
