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“I think it is important for every practitioner in a long term care setting to examine their own practice and strive to make every encounter with a resident a little bit more trauma informed than it was before incorporating the principles in everything that they do with residents every day.”

“[T]here’s two big buckets of climate change related work. We talked about adaptation, helping people cope with and adapt to what is already here. . . [T]hen there's mitigation which is reducing the problem, preventing the problem, [and] lowering the greenhouse gas emissions in the first place. And that's an area that social work has done very little on. . . . I think there is space there to do much more around how we contribute to efforts to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.

“[T]he Portuguese system is comprehensive and integrated, and so all of the agencies. . . and the principles [are] one big integrated system. Where in the United States, we really do not have a unified message. . . [T]he Portuguese system really embraces, "We're trying to figure out what's going on here and solve the problem. . .” [F]or us, it is about punishment for a crime, behavior, whatever it may be.”

“What we need to do better. . . and what geospatial technologies can help us to understand better are the interactions between individuals and their context and some of the nuances to those relationships. . .

that could help to not only drive what our research agenda is and what we know about how those interactions shape health outcomes,but also . . . indicate ways in which we might produce interventions that reduce some of the effects of those health outcomes.”

“Certainly, there is a lot of work that looks at each of these issues on their own, so the studies about child welfare or about homelessness or about educational difficulties. There is even a fair amount of work that looks at issues from the perspective of, say, two systems, so for example, how kids experiencing homelessness do in school and the challenges they have or how kids in foster care might do in school. But, there is really a lot less work that looks at things explicitly from the view of multiple systems and tries to tackle this issue of when kids are involved in more than one system how can those systems come together in a more effective way to serve the issues that cross-systems youth face?”

“[S]chools of social work don't emphasize perinatal mood disorder as much anymore, and social workers are the leading group providing therapeutic care in the United States. So I would ask [that] schools of social work begin to focus on that again.”

“I think it's so important to see that, [regarding] our childhood environment, we have a mechanism within our genetics to adapt to our environment within our lifetime. If you have an environment that says this is the way to thrive in this environment, your genes will turn on or off or express differently so that you can thrive in that environment. But, of course, that really can lead to so much more pain later in life as you're trying to make a different environment be similar to ones that you're prepared for.”

“I believe, as a researcher, as a practitioner, and as a professor, . . . now it is more important than ever to really understand that we have a responsibility to our clients and to our field to be engaged in these policy levels–in policy development and policy implementation.”

“We often are underestimating our clients’ ability to use technology and their access to technology.”

“So psychological [self-sufficiency] is less about just somebody's mindset or their internal motivation alone, but is largely this process of how one would become empowered over time and throughout the whole life course to reach goals as a piece of any type of outcome or goals that they conquer.”