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Police Social Work: Speaking Life into Young People - Ep. 78

The Social Work Stories Podcast

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The Privilege of Being a Social Worker

I had a natural dislike of police. So it was actually quite ironic that I'd end up working for the police. But, you know, being a change agent, if there was an opportunity to work with an organization that obviously was seen by my community as locking my people away, what could that look like from the inside out? Yeah, I saw the opportunity. Obviously, even before I worked for the police, I worked in the community. And often it was advocating against what police are doing. So they were locking them up and I was trying to get them out. It was a tough assignment but then in saying that, I suppose that's us as social workers, is that we

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