CSWE’s Educator | Resource of the Month

Dr. Quiros was featured in CSWE’s Educator | Resource of the Month for May 2022.

Stories by Latinx Social Workers That Heal, Inspire, and Connect Communities

In this powerful video, more than 20 Latinx practitioners, entrepreneurs, and leaders in social work share what it means to them to share their narratives of racialized trauma, resistance, and healing in the contexts of their professional lives. The video brings together the authors whose stories are contained in the new book Latinx in Social Work: Stories That Heal, Inspire, and Connect Communities by licensed clinical social worker Erica Priscilla Sandoval.

Laura Quiros, PhD, LMSW, associate professor of social work at Adelphi University and DEI consultant, who is featured in the video (and book), talks about why it’s essential to our healing that we share our narratives.

This book is a “positive disruption” of traditional social work practice, where we use ourselves and we use our narratives to tell our stories to heal, to uplift, to give voice to women who have not been given voice traditionally... Many of us hold intergenerational trauma. So how do we break that cycle so we can share our voice, we can share our space, we can share our love, our music, our culture with other people to do the same? Our mission is grounded in social justice. It’s not a chapter in a book, it's not a piece on cultural competency, but it is an embodiment of who we are and how we live. (Video 1:09)

You can read the full social work stories in Latinx in Social Work: Stories That Heal, Inspire, and Connect Communities. The book is also available in Spanish, Latinx en el Área de Trabajo Social (scroll down the page, below the English version of the book).