"We have to take a long term perspective of ourselves. At some point, I realized that we wouldn’t solve [racism] in my lifetime. I am just a soldier. I am just a part of a long history of people who have addressed this issue, and it is my job to do...
"In some ways, these issues around immigration policy and the rhetoric are really about fueling racism. We are all worse, actually, for the way that we are unconsciously affected by who we are told immigrants are...”
"Immigration is tied to the very foundation of what it means to be citizens of the United States. Even so, the U.S. government has always and continues to marginalize immigrant groups, defined as other by the dominant group in the U.S.: white middle...
"We know from some recent research that gay men tend to not be out to their doctors, especially outside of urban areas. Is that because gay men are bad? Is that because the doctors are bad, or is it that the system isn’t really looking at how do we...
“It is sort of a hidden vulnerability and exposure that a very caring person has and sometimes very unwarily as they are reaching out and opening up their heart to the person they are taking care of. And it can have an impact and what we realize at...
"It’s an enormous social work issue because more than 2.5 million children in the US currently have a parent incarcerated. And it’s almost three times that many children in the US if you look at children who have parents anywhere in the criminal...
"When we think about what we know about climate for LGBT students that we would describe it as being unsafe, hostile, certainly issues of discrimination have been well-documented. And that discrimination ranges from subtle forms... to more blatant...
“We were also looking for a way to describe these relationships that was useful in a clinical sense, that practitioners could apply this. And we really felt that these three A’s works for that... that clinicians can take this and they can help...
“While there may be social workers who work more directly with the environment, we don’t want to give anyone the image that environmental social work is actually a niche or subset of social work... in reality what we want people to understand is...
“... sometimes it is about... really thinking about how to get this information out there in a way that is not blaming anybody but just saying we need to talk about this more and we need to because the more we talk about it, the less anxious we feel...
