The Imprint @theimprintnews.bsky.social The Imprint is a non profit daily news site reporting on youth and families. Follow to stay up to date on child welfare news in the U.S.
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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social Navy combat veteran and retired NASA astronaut. Husband to @GabbyGiffords.bsky.social. United States Senator for the great state of Arizona.
Senator Ruben Gallego @gallego.senate.gov U.S. Senator for Arizona.
Husband. Dad. Veteran.
GovTrack.us @govtrack.us At https://www.GovTrack.us, we're tracking the United States Congress and the White House. Research & track the bills, votes, and members in the 🇺🇸 Congress, executive orders, etc. Civic engagement & government accountability project since 2004. #opengov
John Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social By day: Professoring; social work/social policy/complex systems; faculty lounge exotica; PhD/JD.
By night: Food/drinks; burritos; vapid entertainment; sport.
24/7: Epistemic humility; posting through the polycrisis; personal account.
Callie Freitag (she/her) @calliefreitag.bsky.social Mixing methods and metaphors. Assistant Professor of Social Work at UW-Madison. Scholar of policies relating to aging, disability, and poverty. Views = own. 
Alankaar Sharma @alankaarsharma.bsky.social Social work educator and researcher. Masculinities, child sexual abuse, sexual violence, sexuality and sexual rights. He/him.
Angie W @awoodlcsw97.bsky.social social work educator, scholar, motivational interviewing trainer (MINT), not too old rock'n'roll in a band
Catherine Crisp (she/her) @catherinecrisp.bsky.social Social work professor; social justice educator; Mindful Self-Compassion teacher; dog & cat lover; fabulous wife, friend, mentor, daughter, and sister; KC Chiefs fan; graduate of Rutgers University, University of Kansas, and University of Texas. 
@ballentinekess.bsky.social @ballentinekess.bsky.social 
Bonita Sharma @sharmabonita.bsky.social Social work, environment, climate change, women/gender health outcomes, global issues.Views are my own. Likes ≠ endorsements.
✨ Defiantly_Myself - (she/her/ella) ✨ @defiantlymyself.bsky.social ✨First-Gen Indigenous Latine Social Justice Worker | 🫡Daughter | 💋Tía | 🐾Fur Mom | ✍🏽📚 Published Author | ☕️ #IdiopathicHypersomnia | Why Not Me❓| #Payment4Placements | #StopASWB | #CancelStudentDebt | https://www.payment4placements.org
Jen H @jenhirsch.bsky.social Parent & PhD student; MSW, disabled, trans/nonbinary, & autistic
interested in adjustment to illness & healthcare trauma
any pronoun
profmattdecarlo @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social Social work teacher & administrator, open educator, oaf, )'(, pirate. I also co-run opensocialwork.org. he/him
My personal page. Does not represent my employer.
Nahime G. Aguirre Mtanous, AM, LCSW @nahime.bsky.social autistic mental health therapist researching autistic adult mental health outcomes
Social Service Review @socservreview.bsky.social Since 1927, publishing thought-provoking, original research on pressing social issues and social welfare policies, organizations, and practices.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/ssr/current
kit @kginzzz.bsky.social 
Prof. Jennie Roe-mick 🏳️🌈 @romich.bsky.social Social welfare scholar, recovering neoliberalist, mom, enthusiastic punctuator!!!!
👎🏻: poverty, late-stage racial capitalism
👍🏻: admin data, social workers in policy, work-life balance
UW SSW but sky-eets R mine
Pic1: ww on zoom
Pic2: the mess offscreen
Katie Hoops Calhoun @katiecalhoops.bsky.social Community-engaged researcher studying responses to homelessness. Asst. professor at OSU College of Social Work. Currently studying income assistance to prevent and address homelessness.
Alejandra Ros Pilarz @arpilarz.bsky.social Associate Professor, Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work,
@UWMadison. I study work and family, public policy, and child and family well-being. Views are my own.
LB Klein, PhD, MSW, MPA @lbklein.bsky.social Violence prevention and anti-oppressive practice researcher. Social work educator. Twin parent.
Views=own
Danielle Maude Littman @dmlittman.bsky.social Asst. Prof at University of Utah College of Social Work. Third places, peer support, and mutual aid for young people at the margins. - K Kimberly Bender @kbender.bsky.social Professor social work | collective care | mutual aid | participatory research | youth houselessness
Melanie Sonsteng-Person @sonstengperson.bsky.social Asst Prof of Social Work || PAR & Qual methodologist || Working with communities to interrupt racial & systemic trauma in K12 & higher education || Constant movement towards liberation || #Biking #Academia #Liberation #Climate #Plants #MidCenturyFurniture
Jennifer Mosley @jenmosley.bsky.social Faculty @UChicagoCrown
Ranting about inequality, social policy, & cycling
Research: safety net, governance, philanthropy, nonprofits, & social change
Editor @socservreview.bsky.social
https://crownschool.uchicago.edu/directory/jennifer-e-mosley
SJ Dodd @drdoddie.bsky.social Professor Silberman SSW. Passionate about women’s soccer, @ChelseaFC & @NYMets.
Vern Harner (they) @vernharner.bsky.social Assistant Professor at UW-Tacoma.
Views here are my own.
Matthew Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social Sociologist, social work faculty
Posting topics include community, disability, social welfare, Chicago, social movements, organizing, policy, the state, labor, coffee, and various nerdy side trips. Personal account
Cassandra Simmel @csimmel.bsky.social Professor and PhD program director at Rutgers University. Love hiking, dogs, baseball, and cupcakes. 
Mandi Spishak-Thomas @aspishakthomas.com Research professor @ Rutgers studying Medicaid. Social worker and health policy wonk. Union organizer (AAUP-AFT) and member of Brooklyn CB6. Baseball #LFGM and WNBA🗽enthusiast. Free 🇵🇸. ACAB. Still 😷. she/her.
aspishakthomas.com
Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈♿️ @drshannak.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️they/them
🎓Social Work and WGS prof @ UM
💋Educator | Researcher | Activist
💜Disabled, AuDHD, queer, nonbinary, polyam Jewitchy fat femme
✊🏽Anti oppressive abolitionist
🖤💙❤️Mx. MI Leather Pride ‘22
Free 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇨🇩🇭🇹
🚫 AI
https://linktr.ee/DrShannaK
Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.bsky.social Co-founder of the upEND movement to abolish the family policing system | Writer and co-facilitator at Toward Liberation, an abolitionist learning group | www.alandettlaff.com | www.towardliberation.com
Dale Dagar Maglalang, PhD, MA, MSW, MPH @dalemaglalang.bsky.social he/they | Assistant Professor | Research on racism & substance use in BIPOC SGM. 🇵🇭🌈 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8909-0193
Larkin Francis, PhD, MSW @mwfrancis.bsky.social Social worker. Educator. Activist. Researcher on substance use recovery. Views are my own. They/them ♿ 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
Jen Wood @docjenwood.bsky.social Leftist social work professor in WNY. 
Jen Greenfield @jcgreenfield.bsky.social Assoc Prof @ U of Denver, researcher, policy specialist, social worker, mentor, learner, neurodivergent mom of twins. News junkie who believes in science, coffee, and the Oxford comma. #AcademicMama #ADHD #FosterDogs https://linktr.ee/jcgreenfield
Alysse Loomis @aloomis.bsky.social U of Utah Social Work Professor, research - early childhood trauma, trauma-informed preschools, preschool expulsion prevention, all views my own
Alicia Mendez @alicitadelfina.bsky.social Research Assistant Professor studying intergenerational trauma, posttraumatic growth, and child sexual abuse prevention. See also: movie buff and amateur ice cream maker.
Meredith Slopen @mslopen.bsky.social Studying labor policy, women's employment, economic security, and work as a social determinant of health. Zinemaker. Can sometimes be found playing music. www.meredithslopen.org
Dr. BlackDeer @drblackdeer.bsky.social Indigiqueer anti-colonial scholar activist •
social work prof
📍 Tkarón:to
AP, Least Clinical Social Worker @apspoth.bsky.social they/them. critical (of) social work. PhD student. at the intersection of Mad studies, trans studies, and abolition. allergic to most social work discourse. not professional advice.
Javier Garcia-Perez @garciaperezjavi.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🇲🇽 | UCLA Alumni | Community-centered researcher #LGBTQ+ #Latinx well-being & mental health | Provost Postdoctoral Fellow @PennSP2 & @SAFElab | he/him
Kristen Brock-Petroshius @4heartsnminds.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Social Welfare
@stonybrooku | Attitude Change, Community Organizing, Equity Policies | views my own 🏳️🌈
https://kristenbrockpetroshius.com
Joe Hanley @joehanley.bsky.social Lecturer in social work at The Open University.
https://research.open.ac.uk/people/jh35572
Anne Marie Quilligan @amquilli.bsky.social #SocialCare #SocialWork
Irish Traveller She / Her
Areas of Interests : #TraumaInformedPractice #CriminalJustice #SocialJustice #FurtherEducation #CommunityDevelopment
Furniture Restoration - Podcast Enthusiast
#SpeirGorm
Stephanie P. Wladkowski @spwladkowski.bsky.social Professor of Social Work @BGSU, #HAPC researcher with a focus on live discharge from hospice. Views my own. #AcademicMama #CatMom #CoffeeIsLife
Gerard Chung @gerardchung.bsky.social Asst. Professor Social Work @NUSingapore. #Goheels #Tech #SocialWork
Bridget Freisthler @bfreisthler.bsky.social 
Eileen Joy Swintersections @eileenjoy.bsky.social Pākehā, Feminist, Intersectional, PhD, Professional Teaching Fellow UoA, Social worker, Counsellor, occasional jigsaw puzzler. PRO Abortion. She/her.
Eve L. Ewing @eveewing.bsky.social I’m a Chicagoan and a prof and I write a lot of things like books [Original Sins, Electric Arches, 1919, Ghosts in the Schoolyard, Maya and the Robot] and comics [X-Men, Black Panther, Ironheart] and more + I love my dog so so much
Dani Adams @daniadams.bsky.social Social work faculty studying mental health access & quality + psychedelic-assisted therapy; Advocate for Medicaid. I love the Midwest, cycling, and cats. 🏳️🌈She/Her
Dennis Kao @professorkao.bsky.social Social Work Professor | Data Viz & Map Designer | Tableau Visionary & Ambassador | husband/father | perpetual student | he/him/his | no AI used
Becca Dove @beccadove2.bsky.social Doing relational things for London Borough of Camden. Social work doctoral researcher, Universiy of Northampton. Alumni, UNESCO Child & Family Research Centre. Views my own, said with love
Jeff Ciak @jcsw.bsky.social Social work PhD student @VCU. Lived experience, health disparities, and SMI/psychosis/mania
Melanie Nadon @mnadon.bsky.social Postdoc at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign School of Social Work. Mixed methods researcher focused on how poverty, place, & race shape child welfare and social policy implementation and experiences. Lover of nature, gardening, cats, & crochet.
Christian Kerr @realchristiankerr.bsky.social Social worker. Lecturer. Resource review editor: Practice - Social Work in Action. Co-editor: The Future of Children’s Care - Critical Perspectives on Children’s Services Reform. And then…
Andy Jolly @andyjolly.bsky.social Assistant Professor @SocialWorkUob | Honorary Research Fellow @ICRDwlv | Politics & attempts at humour my own
Suzanne Pritzker @suzannepritzker.bsky.social Professor of Social Work, University of Pittsburgh. Civic engagement, voting rights, political social work. Twin mom. Views expressed are my own. Author:https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319685878
Sarah E Neville PhD @sarahneville.bsky.social Chelsea School Committee member, BU social work assistant prof, public school parent w/ @robertoj.bsky.social, #mapoli adjacent. #globalhealth #socialwork #adoption #fostercare #childprotection #mentalhealthresearch
Beth Lowder @bethlowder.bsky.social Social work + public health in higher ed. Elder millennial. Here for the commentary, humor, and book recommendations. Opinions expressed here are my own. 🏳️🌈📚🎓
Stephanie Kathan @sckathan.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Social Work
Dr Mark Gregory @swkresearcher.bsky.social Lecturer in Social Work at the University of East Anglia. Research interests are #socialwork practice, in particular professional judgement, supervision, and organisational and team life.
Dr Alhassan Abdullah @dr-abdullah.bsky.social Social Work academic at Charles Sturt University. Research interests| child maltreatment prevention & impacts of communities & culture in child maltreatment.
Jim Marley @jammam.bsky.social SME on targeted violence and terrorism prevention, clinical social work educator, ethics nerd, book collector.
Martin Webber @martinwebber.bsky.social Professor of Social Work at the University of York; Director of Mental Health Social Care Research Centre; interested in evaluating social interventions and tackling social determinants of mental health; and I like riding my bike!
Harry Ferguson @profharryferguson.bsky.social Social work, child protection, research into practice, fatherhood, ethnography, gender-based violence. Liver transplant recipient 2004 and 2023 and advocate for organ donation - https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/social-policy/ferguson-harry
Tanya Moore @tanyamoore.bsky.social Social work geek. Principal Social Worker Essex Adult Social Care. Doctoral Supervisor, The Tavistock. Xodus.
David ‘DT’ Bruno @dtbruno.bsky.social 🇵🇷 deaf lmsw / project manager / phd social work student
also interested in current events and language learning 🌎
Dr. Sarah Taylor @sarahataylor.bsky.social Professor and Chair of Social Work & Co-Director of the Center for Disability Justice Research @CalStateEastBay. Frequent nature walker, occasional kayaker, amateur photographer. She/they. Views my own. #AcademicSky #SocialWork #Disability
Jennifer Vick Bellamy @jennbellamy.bsky.social 
Aidan Worsley @aidanworsley.bsky.social Professor of Social Work at UCLan. Research Manager at Social Work England. From Wigan. Social Work and Social justice. All views my own. RT not an endorsement
Eleni Chambers @elenichambers.bsky.social Disabled researcher/activist. Inclusion, access, involvement and co-production (mainly, but also wildlife, gardening, music, modern art, photography...)
Works for different UK H&SC organisations, particularly likes Disabled People’s Organisations (DPOs).
Yoosun Park @yoosunpark.bsky.social Academic; Social Worker; Critical History of Social Work; Discourse Studies; University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice. 
Caroline Sharkey @caroline-sharkey.bsky.social PhD, LICSW - Social work professor & researcher in urban collective efficacy w/young people using #YPAR #digitalstorytelling #sociallyengagedart to amplify young voices, change systems & mitigate trauma. Dismantling curriculum violence.
Opinions my own.
@morgancshields.bsky.social @morgancshields.bsky.social Assistant Professor at WashU School of Public Health studying quality and accountability of behavioral healthcare
Veronica R. MSW, LICSW @tahoeboulder.bsky.social Pediatric Medical Social Worker. New Englander. Social Work/Sociology Professor. Part time Psychotherapist. Eating Disorders. Humanism in Medicine. Family Systems. Gen-X. #MomSky
Liz Lightfoot @lizlightfoot.bsky.social Director, School of Social Work, Arizona State University. Study social welfare policy, disability, and caregiving. Worry about the future of social work and higher education. Fulbright scholar. #Adoptee. Posts my own, reposts ≠ endorsement #socialwork 
Jo Warner @jowarner01.bsky.social Academic. I research risk, emotions, social work/welfare, politics and democracy. Posts poetical, philosophical, trivial in equal measure. Lido fan.
Elsebelle @elsebelle.bsky.social TrentU Dept Social Work. LSE Social Policy. Research on children of prisoners, punishment, social policy, social justice. Settler, she/her.
Chris Gray @traumasupervision.bsky.social #Psychodynamic #Psychotherapist #Psychologist #SocialWork #Researcher #Feminist -interested in amplifying marginalised voices,relational working,systems change,social justice,sexual violence,MVAWG,class,material realities,sexuality,critical thinking
Dr Peter Simcock @peterjsimcock.bsky.social Associate Professor of Social Work. Interested in deafblindness, social work law and adult safeguarding. Chair of the Deafblind International Acquired Deafblindness Network (ADBN).
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Peter-Simcock
Laura Burney Nissen @lauraburneynissen.bsky.social Social worker, social work professor, artist and foresight practitioner. Author of "Anticipatory Social Work: Foresight Approaches and Tools for Social Imagining and Collective Praxis" with Oxford University Press in 2025. www.socialworkfutures.com
Tess Thompson @drtessthompson.bsky.social Academic studying cancer caregiving, survivorship, & social determinants of health. Views my own. Google Scholar: http://tinyurl.com/drtthompson 
Dr. Christine Sarteschi, LCSW @drsarteschi.bsky.social Full Professor of SW & Criminology | Extreme violence researcher. Books about #Sovereigncitizens | Support my work: https://ko-fi.com/drsarteschi | Opinions own & RPs not endorsements
Cristina Mogro-Wilson @mogrowilson.bsky.social Zachs Endowed Professor, PhD Director, School of Social Work, University of Connecticut. Editor in Chief of Families in Society. Research on Latino fathers and Latino families and how culture influences parenting.
Dr CO @cynokpokiri.bsky.social Child welfare, Black parenting, social work, social research, social justice, social cohesion, mobilities, Global Majority epistemologies
Elizabeth K. Anthony @drelizabethkay.bsky.social Associate Professor; Adolescent Development Researcher; Curious Human
Birmingham School of Social Policy & Society @birminghamschool.bsky.social Based at the @unibirmingham.bsky.social UK, our shared purpose is to understand the world and work collaboratively to make it better #AcademicSky #Sociology #BritishCulturalStudies #Criminology #SocialPolicy #SocialWork #HealthManagement #SocialCare
DrTamCane @drtamcane.bsky.social Academic, Researcher, Social Worker. University of Sussex