“Implementation Science is about researching how we get evidence into practice.”
“If we can get some basic information out there to social workers about how to start having these conversations, we have the potential to make a big difference in the gun violence rates in our country.”
“COVID: 19 really created unprecedented challenges that very few of us had ever confronted and probably in reality we weren’t really prepared for. [I]t was the ultimate crisis to test our ability to be collaborative problem solvers”
Now that we are in the middle of a pandemic, child welfare agencies are faced with the incredible challenge of immediately shifting to a virtual workforce;moving all of their staff and operations out of the agency, establishing policies and...
“ISS-USA, International Social Service USA is the American member of a network of social workers and lawyers working in about 130 countries around the world. [W]e serve more than seventy-five thousand families a year in the network, we work on...
“In our field and in many helping profession fields we have been very slow in getting outside of single race ways of engaging human experience... and I just think we have been really slow and disconnected in research and the development of our...
“So many people believe that people end up in this hoarding situation because they come from a family line that suffered under the Depression. Billions of people went through the Depression and they didn’t hoard maladaptively... But some hoard...
“Clearly there is always going to be some degree of turnover in child welfare, however, this study found time and time again that it was not just that turnover happened, but how turnover happened.”
“Shared value is a management strategy in which companies find business opportunities in social problems. [I]t focuses on solving social problems but also getting some competitive advantage.”
"The goal of [drug courts] is promoting empowerment and self-accountability in regards to this process of healing and change.”