“Within the context of these [urban] neighborhoods, folks are confronted with all kinds of obstacles and challenges that get in the way of everything they do, and the institutions that service them are failures, and the institutions are failures...
“In order to be smart and effective about decarceration we say that you cannot only reduce the incarcerated population; you must simultaneously reduce social disparities within our criminal justice system, specifically dramatic racial disparities...
“A lot of students come in labeling our clients as offenders or criminals or what have you, which is really easy to do. I think that they learn here through some challenging circumstances that we are working with a population of people who are...
“It is always good to know that there are other macro social workers out there, and [Rachel] has often said that it speaks to social media’s effectiveness as an organizing and educational tool. . . It is one thing to say that, and it is another to...
“The history of America is a dream always imperfectly realized. To put it in a different way, America is a flawed, noble experiment, and the contradictions are there from the very beginning. On one hand, we speak of we the people being created with...
“Elderhood is a specific phase of life, and we think of that as a developmental stage that is distinct from adulthood .. . I think in our western culture we have a tendency to think of old people as just older adults, and that really .. . cheats us...
“I want to talk about choice, because that’s one of the features in gamification that the three of us were. . . drawn to. . . Students did appreciate having many choices. They liked being able to choose which topic they learned about. They liked...
“For every injury a young person suffers the likelihood of surviving the next injury decreases. Our primary goal was [for] our data to inform the development of our emerging hospital violence intervention program. . . to provide psycho-social...
“At this point, there is so much research available that links mindfulness training to really key skills, such as the ability to direct and sustain attention, to tolerate and regulate affect, to be flexible in your thinking, to be open and...
“[Social workers] have to do it all. We have to understand what the human experiences are, and we have to bring those human experiences, either through ourselves but preferably through the people, to the halls of policy making. We bring that...