“One out of two adults have somebody related to them who has been incarcerated, So to be able to be effectively responsive to that is such...
"Leadership is really important in helping different groups to recognize collaboration can be beneficial."
“If we can get some basic information out there to social workers about how to start having these conversations, we have the potential to...
"The goal of [drug courts] is promoting empowerment and self-accountability in regards to this process of healing and change.”
“Part of the reason that we think racial disparities may exist in some treatment courts is because African-American participants felt that...
[T]he pathways to prison for most women includes a history of trauma, either sexual trauma; physical violence; . . . substance use; and...
“I would just like to say that one of the major social determinants of health and wellbeing is education, and if we can put students who...
“In order to be smart and effective about decarceration we say that you cannot only reduce the incarcerated population; you must...
“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...
“For every injury a young person suffers the likelihood of surviving the next injury decreases. Our primary goal was [for] our data to...