"We’ve taught people what they should not say, but we haven’t taught them what they should say. So instead, they say nothing."

"Loan debt is growing, and a lot of students are in trouble."

“One of the reasons we started this program was to improve children’s placement stability. [W]e are seeing that participation in PC-Care is related to children staying in the home longer and having fewer placement disruptions.”

“You can look at ways of trying to reduce illicit opioids, and that’s not easy. [W]hat I think is more difficult, is looking at the reasons why people are using and becoming addicted to opioids in the first place.”

“All schools can incorporate this type of stimulation within the community. [I]t was something so worth the time and energy and the outcome was so successful and positive that I truly believe it is worth every ounce of energy and time put forth.”

“Implementation Science is about researching how we get evidence into practice.”

“If we can get some basic information out there to social workers about how to start having these conversations, we have the potential to make a big difference in the gun violence rates in our country.”

“COVID: 19 really created unprecedented challenges that very few of us had ever confronted and probably in reality we weren’t really prepared for. [I]t was the ultimate crisis to test our ability to be collaborative problem solvers”

Now that we are in the middle of a pandemic, child welfare agencies are faced with the incredible challenge of immediately shifting to a virtual workforce;moving all of their staff and operations out of the agency, establishing policies and protocols, and procedures for how to support a virtual workforce. While also ensuring the safety and well-being of children and families in their care, and the physical safety of their workforce from the virus itself.”

“ISS-USA, International Social Service USA is the American member of a network of social workers and lawyers working in about 130 countries around the world. [W]e serve more than seventy-five thousand families a year in the network, we work on issues primarily involving children and families that are separated across the border.”