"[I]f we're talking about why do we need to decolonize schools of social work, we are increasingly teaching future social workers to help our clients put Band-Aids on their situations, right, to advocate for them to deal with these oppressive...
“We have to think about the aspect of social work that includes mobilization, organization, and access. For so long in social work we have been very much in the room, present with our client.... [W]e're helping them individually, I think social...
“Talk therapy is all about the verbal language. But what if you don’t have the verbal language?... That’s why movement is so important, because it let’s you unpack… [and] describe how it feels in your body.”
“I don’t disparage the really important, gifted clinical work… but the danger of understanding social work interventions as clinical and individual is that… We wind up trying to fix people, instead of trying to fix systems that box them often into...
“What are we doing now to be able to create a more just, caring, and compassionate society on my block, in my neighborhood, and in my city? And that should always be the discussion in policy, research, and every community intervention that we create...
“It's an amorphous loss that other people can't see and they can't touch and they can't identify with. It's a prospective grief versus a retrospective grief because we're grieving over the hopes and wishes and dreams for the future…. so it becomes...
“We need the magic of community [to address the issue of brain health], not the magic of pills.”
“I don't see my White colleagues talking about racial trauma. And then when I bring it up, it's like that aha moment... And if we don't talk about racial trauma with Black clients, how are we going to talk about regular trauma?”
“I'm very interested in helping physicians understand the big questions of what it means to be human, what it means to be a physician, and what it means to lead a good life in an effort to ensure, not only that all patients are treated with respect...
“... Keep asking the tough questions and holding the child welfare system to a high standard, because both the families and the [social workers] need research that roots out the issues... and helps us work toward a fairer, more just child welfare...