“Social workers are academically trained to lead important dialogue between diverse groups. We are the only professionals mandated to practice from the person and environment perspective. . . Social workers are skilled in helping folks put...
"It’s not necessarily a matter of if we use technology, but it is a matter of how we use technology. . . Social worker voices tend to be missing from conversations and decisions around technology, because there tends to be so much confusion and fear...
"Science is a creative enterprise, and sometimes it’s not viewed that way when it is thought about in the lens of quantitative research. It . . . ask[s]us to entertain more fluidity of knowledge. . . That is also a part of practice: you know, being...
"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...