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Social Justice Origin Stories is a storytelling project that highlights personal stories and defining moments that have inspired individuals and organizations to labor for equity and social justice. Through truth-telling: the honest sharing of their experiences, storytellers teach us about themselves, enabling us to learn about ourselves and our world through their stories. By reconnecting with pivotal moments of activation in their lives, they invite us to do the same. At Social Justice Origin Stories, we believe that there's power in storytelling and that lived experience is experience. There's room enough for all of us to do this work. There are many ways to contribute, and our contributions don't need to be the same. We can enter and remain engaged in the work using the gifts that are special to us while supporting others and using theirs. We have the capacity to grow and change for the better when exposed to new information and experiences. We believe in our inherent worth and capabilities, and we possess the power to inspire and create change in ourselves and others. We can transcend the confines of the status quo to imagine and design more equitable and humanizing systems. Every journey has a beginning. What's yours? Social Justice Origin Stories is produced, edited, and hosted by Relando Thompkins-Jones

Thinking Beyond Direct Practice And The Clinical Office: Macro Pathways with Patrick Taylor

Patrick Taylor, LCSW, US Air Force veteran and doctoral student in Social Work at USC, tells the story of how learning about the Grand Challenges for Social Work in his program and being surprised by how few Social Workers knew about them led him to recognize the experience as a systemic issue. Taylor's research led him to coin the phrase the Micro Pipeline in Social Work (MPISW), the systemic funneling of social workers into clinical roles at the expense of macro exposure, development, and support. Taylor describes how social work’s identity became tied to a medical model and overly associated with mental health. He shares his own pathway from his early beginnings as a sociology student through his experiences with the clinical licensure process, and explains why he created Macro Pathways as an early-intervention, social worker-informed prototype to help students and professionals reimagine macro work, build community, and move the profession toward balance, prevention, and broader influence. Connect with Macro Pathways on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/macropathways/ [https://www.linkedin.com/company/macropathways/] 00:00 Do You Know About The Grand Challenges Of Social Work? 00:58 Micro Pipeline Explained 03:02 Why Macro Matters Now 05:13 Show Intro And Guest Welcome 08:11 Taylor Origins And Mission 11:00 Macro Pathways Early Intervention 14:07 Rebalancing The Profession 18:50 Building The Prototype 24:43 Reimagining What Macro Social Work Is 27:40 Design Labs And Community Feedback 31:02 Big Vision And Next Steps 35:08 Why Macro Pathways Matters 35:56 MSW Training Skews Clinical 37:31 Licensure Hurdles and Feeling Trapped 39:16 Macro Pathways as Movement 41:37 Why Sociology First 44:33 Mentors Who Changed Everything 50:43 Thank You to Supporters 52:19 Creativity as Systems Change 56:39 Rejecting Status Quo Thinking 58:09 Advice for Students and Newcomers 01:00:40 True Social Justice Needs Balance 01:01:55 Tell Your Origin Story 01:02:42 Message to Future Generations 01:04:55 Thinking Beyond Direct Practice 01:05:49 Closing and Where to Listen Support the podcast by becoming a patron: https://www.patreon.com/SocialJusticeOriginStories [https://www.patreon.com/SocialJusticeOriginStories] Visit the Social Justice Origin Stories Project Website: https://socialjusticeoriginstories.com [https://socialjusticeoriginstories.com] Subscribe to Social Justice Origin Stories on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SocialJusticeOriginStories [https://www.youtube.com/@SocialJusticeOriginStories] Listen to Social Justice Origin Stories on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/social-justice-origin-stories/id1771268991 [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/social-justice-origin-stories/id1771268991] Listen to Social Justice Origin Stories on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5iBn70HzO4lFxk7sN3gwAf [https://open.spotify.com/show/5iBn70HzO4lFxk7sN3gwAf] Follow Social Justice Origin Stories on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/socialjusticeoriginstories/ [https://www.instagram.com/socialjusticeoriginstories/] Follow Social Justice Origin Stories on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/sjoriginstories.bsky.social [https://bsky.app/profile/sjoriginstories.bsky.social] Like Social Justice Origin Stories on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61567841874653 [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61567841874653] LinkTree for more: https://linktr.ee/SocialJusticeOriginSto... [https://linktr.ee/SocialJusticeOriginStories?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaZzPfl3gCm5NY9C_Y-glRzwDu-8BvHfkCJaQlDihfrQxbYWC1dnxgRL2kU_aem_kmgEcokBmDt8WaAtlWQMQQ]

15 de abr de 2026 - 1 h 7 min