“I became really aware that the way we help parents, will ultimately impact the children that they have.”
“When [social workers] talk about families, we often mean mothers –the kid and the mom. We forget about the dads. [I] want social workers to understand how parenting and the parent-child relationship works for Latino fathers. This way we can be...
“I teach the best and learn the best when I can bring my full and authentic self to the classroom. [T]hinking about how do I create spaces where students can bring their diverse religious and political ideologies forward is important”
“Continuous quality assurance in Child Welfare is really a client-centered philosophy. We have limited resources and we need to make sure that the services that we’re providing families and children are actually contributing to positive results for...
"We know this thing about trauma, what do we do about it?”
[I]n wilderness therapy it used to be more about slowly breaking them (clients) down and then building that back up, but that model has changed over the years. It is much more of a relationally based model of working with young people and really...
I asked them(survivors) what justice would look like if they were ever consulted. What would make things right for them? [T]he thing that they most wanted was acknowledgment. Not just from the perpetrator or not even primarily from the perpetrator...
“[The] greatest thing that I learned from being in local government... is that in my mind local government is where the rubber hits the road... local government controls all those aspects that many of us take for granted in our communities.”
“[W]hen someone experiences a therapist as being empathic and open and willing to lend an ear, what we sometimes see is that people will just try to purge themselves of their traumatic past. . . [T]his can be a good thing in part because they...
“[A] technology social enterprise with a social mission is the enterprise that makes sense because it creates investment assets that attract and generate wealth, provides high reward opportunities for subordinated groups – like women and minorities...