“I really stress very strongly that, as a social worker, if you are going to integrate spirituality into your work you have to find out where you are in your own spirituality. And you have to do that kind of in a formal way so that you really are...
“What we’ve discovered is that [technology] has completely crept in. It is a part of the lives of social workers in their professional face-to-face work whether they have chosen it or not. And, because it has kind of happened before policies or...
“I really stress very strongly that, as a social worker, if you are going to integrate spirituality into your work you have to find out where you are in your own spirituality. And you have to do that kind of in a formal way so that you really are...
"What we found is that if a school had a crisis team, and if that person was part of the team and had helped develop or knew that they had a very well-developed or comprehensive response plan, and that they exercised that plan at least once a year...
“People have to be ready for this type of practice. When the client is ready, then you start cultivating that mindfulness practice and helping them to integrate it. We don’t use mindfulness to circumvent grief. We don’t use mindfulness as a bypass...
“Stop working as a single, isolated institution and work more like a network. Embrace the abundance. It is a better way of working, and is more powerful, and I think gets better results.”
“There is no evidence that African American kids are likely to misbehave than children from other cultural groups, and there is some evidence that suggests that when children from other cultural groups do display behavior similar to the behavior...
"The title sort of sums it up, “In Response to Need”. It means that’s the way social workers shape the work. They didn’t think about, “Well, what will really further the profession? What will make sure that it’s a very exclusive group that no one...
“What we often talk about in the anti-trafficking field is ‘trafficking in plain sight’. So, while it’s very hard to determine the extent of trafficking, many of us are involved in trafficking in ways that we wouldn’t normally know.”
“We study major policies – welfare reform, affordable healthcare. We study trends like gentrification. We study our clients - what are they doing, how are they responding to our services? But we rarely study ourselves.”