“Building on your natural curiosity... towards new skills, towards new answers, and a new way of doing that. We need a model for social work leadership, a model that fits the strengths and unique skill sets that are inherent in social work... it is...
“...so I have one really simple exercise that I have people do... on a daily basis, think about what’s going to happen that day that might lead you to have more anger than you want. And then simply, try to figure out what the hidden emotion would be...
“It is deeply seeded... I got back to the poor house ledger and not that much had changed... We just keep recreating this same system and it’s not because it is more or less efficient... There are new ways of creating a very similar system which is...
“A lot of what we participate in in the everyday doesn’t always meet with what it claims or purports to do and so we need to be critical and by critical, I don’t mean we have to criticize but we need to be conscious and honest about the effects our...
“... so much power is routed through technological systems right now that it is absolutely critical for us to figure out ways for us to be critically engaged in how it is designed, how it is implemented, and how it is used.”
“At the end, I think that if we get social workers from the University at Buffalo and lawyers in Mexico, from Universidad LaSalle to start partnering on potential future projects that would be the best outcome. That our students can now be sure that...
It could be in the criminal justice system... the mental health system, it could be... whatever system for me when I think about, are you willing to give up some power?... How do you reduce the distance between yourself and the people that you’re...
"There is a whole other side to that narrative that seems to be unnamed and not known and not talked about which is the potential for post traumatic growth and transformation and the stories of people who yes had bad individual trauma and at the...
“In order to do clinical work, we have to have a macro understanding of why we are there in the first place. So having to navigate between this micro clinical aspect of how to work with an individual and how that individual is actually not...
“... I am so glad that we have that one word in front of that statement, human rights, not American rights... this is a recognition of what all human beings deserve simply because they are human beings. And that there has to be work toward the...
