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“Continuous quality assurance in Child Welfare is really a client-centered philosophy. We have limited resources and we need to make sure that the services that we’re providing families and children are actually contributing to positive results for those families.”

"We know this thing about trauma, what do we do about it?”

[I]n wilderness therapy it used to be more about slowly breaking them (clients) down and then building that back up, but that model has changed over the years. It is much more of a relationally based model of working with young people and really just being surrounded in nature. Helping to settle people out and to move all the distractions of day to day living.”

I asked them(survivors) what justice would look like if they were ever consulted. What would make things right for them? [T]he thing that they most wanted was acknowledgment. Not just from the perpetrator or not even primarily from the perpetrator but mainly from the bystanders from the community.”

“[The] greatest thing that I learned from being in local government... is that in my mind local government is where the rubber hits the road... local government controls all those aspects that many of us take for granted in our communities.”

“[W]hen someone experiences a therapist as being empathic and open and willing to lend an ear, what we sometimes see is that people will just try to purge themselves of their traumatic past. . . [T]his can be a good thing in part because they haven't really shared many of these painful stories with anyone before, but the problem that I see with some of these folks when they do this is that. . . after the session. . . they start to feel "oh my god I've spilled the beans." They often feel humiliated at having shared so much. And so, it's really important when you do trauma work to pace the process of opening up, to help people slow the whole thing down.”

“[A] technology social enterprise with a social mission is the enterprise that makes sense because it creates investment assets that attract and generate wealth, provides high reward opportunities for subordinated groups – like women and minorities, it can scale ideas that disrupt the established order in any given industry, and thrives from cross disciplinary and innovative problem solving.”

“Part of the reason that we think racial disparities may exist in some treatment courts is because African-American participants felt that they never had a safe, confidential environment to get true good quality treatment. [I] propose a reduction in collaboration between treatment providers and the drug court system.”

"Centering Pregnancy . . ., as an evidence based and empirically supported practice, has always been very open to try out new interventions that may help new mothers. So I see Centering Pregnancy as a wonderful opportunity. . . for university community collaborations in working together to help new mothers have successful pregnancies and to have infants born at full term so that we can have happy, healthy families.”

“[Libraries:] are they only a place where one goes to check out books or movies or access the internet, or are they also a place that can serve people more robustly in a very diverse way that we didn't anticipate before?”