by YWS | Oct 10, 2017 | Executive Director Series
In our field there has been an on-going discussion around how we refer to those people who use our services. In the late eighties and early nineties there was a move toward using the word client to describe all persons who utilized services in children and family...
by YWS | Sep 12, 2017 | Executive Director Series
When most of us think of performing a heroic act our minds conjure up images of someone saving someone else from a burning building, or some other dramatic action we believe to be more in line with what and who a hero is. In social definition, heroism is the action of...
by YWS | Aug 8, 2017 | Executive Director Series
Although many of us would like to believe otherwise, how we think of someone else impacts how we not only respond to them but also how we judge someone after the fact, and apply a narrative for the future. When we misjudge or prejudge other people, the risk is that...