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“[W]e know from the research that LGBTQ youth, as a population, really experience disproportionate risks to their well-being. So, for example, they frequently experience family and peer rejection, discrimination, bullying and harassment, and many other forms of violence and victimization due to their minority sexual or gender identities.”

“[W]e wanted to look at how. . . attitudes about LGBT people differ between teachers at rural middle and high schools compared to those teaching at an urban middle and high school setting. We also wanted to look at how. . . the teacher’s observances of anti-LGBT behaviors among the students and faculty bodies differ between rural and urban settings. And finally, we also wanted to look at [whether] these attitudinal differences correlate with the differences in rates of behaviors, anti-LGBT behaviors that they were observing.”

“Gentrification can be thought of as a form of community loss.”

"Interventions are really needed in the field of social work to help address some of these disparities, so for example, using a patient-centered approach in discussing cost-related nonadherence as well as medication concerns or insuring that we are assessing for cost-related nonadherence when we are working with older clients. . .”

“[As] social workers, we are uniquely positioned in school systems, in hospitals, in community agencies. We are in the centers where people come for help when they are normally on their last leg. And so for social workers to be aware of what Internet Gaming Disorder looks like, of how it can affect children, families, society, is extremely important because they are at the frontline of what can either be primary prevention or intervention.”

“I sit in the camp of social media is not the Devil. It has wonderful benefits to it. Yes, there's risks, but just like anything else in life there's also equal benefits.”

“I think there is a number of [implications]. . . I think that [our] paper, even in its kind of mid-state form, is making a very compelling argument, in our view, that all of these grand challenges would benefit from backing up and doing a critical review of what we know.”

“So for me it's not about this technique or that technique, it's about how do we help therapists to be good clients so that clients can get what they need and heal and move on with their lives.”

“I think it can be very helpful to keep in mind that when an individual [has] experienced trauma in the earlier part of their life and their childhood that that complicates not only their overall outlook and can lead to some very difficult symptoms, like PTSD, but it also can affect how they develop in their view fundamentally of the world, themselves, [and] relationships because that's what's happening in childhood.”

“One of the ideas here is that we're also helping to connect researchers with one another [and] that we're able to engage in more of that collaborative work [. It] all ties back to the importance of creating these partnerships with policy makers and program directors in our communities. . . .”