AR Mitchell Consultants, LLC

09/04/2026

Attending the Georgia Commission on Family Violence (GCFV) Conference reinforced the importance of Doctor of Social Work (DSW) practitioners taking a leadership role in preventing intimate partner violence.

As DSW professionals, we are called to translate research into practice, develop innovative interventions, influence policy, strengthen interdisciplinary partnerships, and address the systemic conditions that allow violence to continue. Our work must extend beyond responding after harm occurs to identifying risks early, educating communities, strengthening protective factors, and promoting healthy relationships.

Social workers practice across healthcare, behavioral health, schools, courts, child welfare, veteran services, and community organizations. This places us in a unique position to connect systems and advance trauma-informed, culturally responsive, survivor-centered, and intersectional approaches that promote safety while preserving survivors’ autonomy.

IPV prevention is a collective responsibility. It requires education, accessible resources, policy advocacy, accountability, and sustained collaboration among survivors, social workers, healthcare professionals, advocates, law enforcement, legal experts, and community leaders.

I am grateful for the opportunity to attend the GCFV Conference, expand my knowledge, build meaningful connections, and continue using my DSW leadership to advance IPV prevention and systemic change.

07/26/2026

03/03/2026

I am a Kidney Disease Warrior.
Living with a genetic predisposition has strengthened my faith, resilience, and commitment to advocacy.

During Kidney Disease Month, I’m asking for your prayers, support, and increased awareness. Early detection saves lives. Please consider learning your numbers, checking your kidney function, and supporting kidney research and education.

02/07/2026

February 7 is National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day — a time to raise awareness, promote testing, and address the structural inequities that continue to impact Black communities.

Black Americans account for a disproportionate number of new HIV diagnoses, yet early testing, treatment, and prevention tools like PrEP can reduce transmission dramatically. When individuals living with HIV achieve an undetectable viral load, Undetectable = Untransmittable (U=U).

Let’s reduce stigma, increase access to care, and support community-centered prevention and education.
Know your status. Get tested. Stay informed. Support prevention.

02/05/2026

Black History Month Reflection

When did we, as a Black community, begin to speak the colonizer’s language about Black women?

When did beautiful, strong, empowering, resilient, and purposeful become distorted into “masculine,” “too demanding,” or “standards too high”?

Black women have always been co-architects of freedom.

We endured slavery alongside our men—laboring, resisting, surviving.
We ran for freedom and returned for others, like Harriet Tubman, because liberation was never meant to be individual.
We stood shoulder to shoulder in the Civil Rights Movement, taking the same blows, like Amelia Boynton Robinson on the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
We chose justice over comfort, like Dr Gloria Wade-Gayles, who refused to separate scholarship from struggle—even at personal cost.
And we led on the world stage with grace, discipline, and intellect, like Michelle Obama, advancing childhood health, global education, and access to higher learning—while enduring scrutiny meant to shrink her.

This language did not originate with us—but it has been recycled within us.

Black women have always been strong—never at the expense of beauty.
We have always had standards—because we know our worth.
We have always been resilient—because resistance is our inheritance, not our burden.

So during Black History Month, we tell the truth:
Check the narratives you repeat.
Check whose language you borrow.
Check who benefits when Black women are diminished instead of defended.

Because honoring Black history means honoring Black women—fully, fiercely, and without apology.

02/03/2026

🚨 CALL TO ACTION 🚨

PROTECT SOCIAL WORK. PROTECT ALABAMA COMMUNITIES.

Alabama social workers, concerned citizens, and all University of Alabama fans:

📞 Call your representatives and demand a NO vote on HB 152.

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❌ WHY OPPOSE HB 152?

HB 152:
• Sets a dangerous precedent for political interference in social work
• Threatens the integrity of our profession
• Prioritizes money and politics over people
• Undermines ethical, evidence-based practice
• Puts client safety and community trust at risk

Social work must remain guided by:
✔ Ethics
✔ Professional standards
✔ Client well-being
✔ Evidence-based practice
—not political agendas.

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🗣 TAKE ACTION TODAY

✔ Call your state representative
✔ Tell them: Vote NO on HB 152
✔ Share this message with colleagues, classmates, and community members