COMMENTARY | Let's slow down, explore our biases, listen to people of color and truly address racism A few years ago, I wrote about race in social work and the structural and interpersonal racism that went undiscussed in Portland. Portland seemed to ...
13 Apr 2018 - Shannon Singleton
The topic of race and social work is a conversation that could take many paths. We could discuss the dynamics for professionals of color in Portland (and the sad trend of emigration from Portland); or the experience of people of color within our dominant ...
15 Feb 2014 - Shannon Singleton
The goal of social work is to work yourself out of a job. A simple statement that I heard in my first social work class at Temple University from one of the leading anti-poverty advocates in the country. It is a statement that resonates with me and focuse ...
1 Feb 2014 - Shannon Singleton