“I would just like to say that one of the major social determinants of health and wellbeing is education, and if we can put students who are at risk of not getting an education on a trajectory of higher education vs. the criminal justice system, I...
“Most outcomes with regard to health programs or patient programs look to improve the patient’s health. With progressive illnesses like Huntington’s and Parkinson’s and such, there is no way to do that... The foundation of our relationship with the...
“The question should not really be is this as good as voice counseling or as good as in person, but is it better than nothing, given that so many young people would chose to just sit with their pain? If we are at least reaching and making some sort...
“A progressive social worker is one that understands their job is to work with the people who live in the neighborhoods and communities, looking at their activities at that level. Their job is to help people acquire the capacities and the abilities...
“Entrepreneurship was never something that I considered, because I think that, for most people, we are socialized to go to school, find a job, get a job for x amount of years, and then retire; but entrepreneurship is always considered something that...
“Within the context of these [urban] neighborhoods, folks are confronted with all kinds of obstacles and challenges that get in the way of everything they do, and the institutions that service them are failures, and the institutions are failures...
“In order to be smart and effective about decarceration we say that you cannot only reduce the incarcerated population; you must simultaneously reduce social disparities within our criminal justice system, specifically dramatic racial disparities...
“A lot of students come in labeling our clients as offenders or criminals or what have you, which is really easy to do. I think that they learn here through some challenging circumstances that we are working with a population of people who are...
“It is always good to know that there are other macro social workers out there, and [Rachel] has often said that it speaks to social media’s effectiveness as an organizing and educational tool. . . It is one thing to say that, and it is another to...
“The history of America is a dream always imperfectly realized. To put it in a different way, America is a flawed, noble experiment, and the contradictions are there from the very beginning. On one hand, we speak of we the people being created with...
