Mortar Board/Tolo Merit Scholarships – Due April 4^th but requires letter of rec

Mortar Board Alumni/Tolo Foundation is seeking qualified candidates to receive merit scholarships for the 2016-2017 academic year. The Foundation awards over $30,000 in total scholarships at UW each year. The program annually recognizes UW sophomores, juniors, seniors, and graduate students (class status based on 2016-17) based on distinguished achievement in scholarship, leadership and service to the campus and community. Applicants are encouraged from all UW academic levels and from all fields of study, including those students who have not yet declared a major.  Membership in Mortar Board is NOT required. The Mortar Board Alumni/Tolo Foundation will award scholarships on an objective and non-discriminatory basis.

Eligibility & Requirements:

• Applicants must be a sophomore, junior, senior, or graduate student of the University of Washington, including branch campuses, throughout the 2016-2017  academic year.
• If selected as a semifinalist, applicants must be available for a personal interview to be scheduled with the Mortar Board Alumni/Tolo Foundation Scholarship Committee during spring quarter.
• Applicants must not be related to a past or present director and/or employee of the Mortar Board Alumni/Tolo Foundation.
• An awarded scholarship can be used only for tuition and other eligible education expenses.

Details and application materials are available on the Office of Merit Scholarships, Fellowships & Awards website.

Deadline for applications is April 4

For questions, please contact: Mortar Board Alumni/Tolo Foundation Scholarship Committee, mortarboardalumni.tolo@gmail.com.

The Graduate School and the Office of the Dean of Diversity and Student Affairs would like to cordially invite you to a provocative conversation with Dr. David Stovall. Dr. Stovall will be giving a talk on Friday March 4^th titled “Beyond Tough Talk: Reflection and Action as an Activist Scholar”. His talk will center on how contemporary youth movements (such as Black Lives Matter, Black Youth Project 100, Dream Defenders, Love and Protect, Immigrant Youth Justice League, etc.), operate within a context of community resistance to systems of racialized oppression and violence, ultimately urge educators and community leaders alike to move beyond tough talk. Dr. Stovall is Professor of Educational Policy Studies and African-American Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has written extensively about race, racism, and the role of community in creating transformative schools. Please click here to learn more about Dr. Stovall and his work.

Dr. Stovall’s talk will be held on Friday March 4th from 1-2:30pm at Kane Hall Room 225 (Walker Ames). Please click here to RSVP by Friday March 4^th  by 12pm.

ANTH/NURS 562. Clinically Applied Anthropology, Wednesdays 9:30-12:20, HSB T 521. Spring Quarter. 3 credits.

Clinically Applied Anthropology is designed to explore how medical anthropology can be used in clinical situations.  It is aimed at health science graduate students as well as graduate students from other professional schools and from academic departments.  The seminar format will include the examination of selected publications in medical anthropology to understand the data, theory, and methods used by anthropologists to investigate and analyze health-related behaviors.  Anthropologists who specialize in various culture areas (e.g., Indonesia, Oceania, Africa) will be invited for guest presentations.  This information will be related to national and international health care issues to explore whether anthropological insight offers solutions or new approaches to culturally appropriate care.  Specific topics will range widely depending on student interests and availability of articles.  Topics will include cultural variations in illness beliefs and illness behavior (e.g., culture-bound syndromes, meanings of cancer or diabetes), types of healing practices (e.g., shamans, medicine people), and chronic illness and death.  Two short draft papers leading to a seminar paper are required.

For more info, contact Noel J. Chrisman at noelj@uw.edu

 

Hi Everyone –

We hope your quarter is going well. We know that this time of quarter (and year!) can be a particularly stressful time for students with homework, practicum placements, and all of the other things that make our lives complicated.

We wanted to let you know that there are resources available to you. In particular, we want to highlight our handout on Counseling Resources for Students, which includes both campus and community free, low-cost and sliding scale options. That handout and other resources may be found at: http://socialwork.uw.edu/node/4339

As always, if you’re under so much stress that you’re feeling like you may need to adjust your schedule, you can always email Lin (linm@uw.edu), Kelly (hoeftk05@uw.edu), or Bilen for EDP students (bilenm@uw.edu) to discuss your options.

Spring Course open now to MSW Students

G H 563/EPI 549: HIV/STI Prevention Research Methods (3)

Thursdays, 12:30-3:20

SLN 14548 or 14164

Instructors: Dr. Renee Heffron and Dr. Jared Baeten

Focuses on current research and implementation of HIV/STI prevention including biomedical, behavioral, and public health interventions. Includes analyzing strength of research evidence to support novel interviews, understanding key features of study design, and applying interventions that are most appropriate and feasible for specific settings and populations.

From an MSW Student who took the course previously:

Two professors that I work with, Dr. Renee Heffron and Dr. Jared Baeten, are offering a class this Spring on HIV Prevention Research Methods. I took this class my first year at SSW and really enjoyed it. It is a great class for people interested in global health, public health, HIV/STIs and/or research.

I was a bit worried about taking it without having an Epi background but had no problems. As you know, social work students often add a great social justice perspective to other disciplines, which is greatly appreciated in this class.

 

Next Tuesday, March 1^nd,  we will be hosting an Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Story Slam Competition in partnership with Returned Peace Corps Volunteers from around the country! The event is open to all students, faculty, Peace Corps applicants, and Returned Peace Corps Volunteers. It will be an occasion to celebrate the many experiences of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers, as well as Peace Corps Week, February 28 – March 5^th. Come join us to hear some stories slammed about amazing Peace Corps experiences!

 

Here are the details:

 

Tuesday, March 1, 2016

6:30 – 8:00 pm

Sieg Hall, room 227, University of Washington

Please join the Disability Studies Program for these presentations by UW students!

Location: Mary Gates Hall 024 (the UW D Center)
Date: Fri Feb 26, 2016, 12-1pm

– 12pm, Tiffany Woelfel, Marissa Pighin, Marianna Grady, “The Intersection of Sexual Violence and Disability: Campus Experience and Policy”
– 12:30pm Marcella Ascoli, “Disability Space in Public Parks”

Accessibility:
CART captioning and ASL interpretation have been requested.
We ask that you please be fragrance free.

https://depts.washington.edu/disstud/harlan-hahn-ds-award-talks-feb-26-12-1pm

Abstracts & Bios:

Tiffany Woelfel is a student in the MSW, MPH and Global Health’s HIV/STI Graduate Certificate programs. Her areas of research include social media and research ethics, addiction, HIV, traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder. Tiffany will present on her Hahn-funded project, which included co-hosting a workshop on Graphic Narratives that empowered students to share their stories of oppression and resilience using the art form of comic books, and co-authoring a campus-wide evaluation plan that would estimate the prevalence of comorbid disability and sexual violence (SV) among UW students and find new ways to best coordinate campus services specifically for student survivors of SV with disability.

Marcella Ascoli is a student at UW Bothell in Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences. Over the summer of 2015, Marcella conducted an ethnography of public parks in the King County area, using spacial theory to investigate public space and its inclusion – or in many cases exclusion – of people with disabilities. The project helps to challenge the idea that ADA requirements are the top bar to meet in terms of accessibility, and will result in the creation of an interactive map and an accessibility scale, comparable to the walkability scale used in many Seattle metro neighborhoods.

 

 

Dear friends, 

We are excited to offer a Trauma-Informed Yoga Training in SEATTLE, WA April 15-17th, 2016!

Street Yoga offers a curriculum that trains service professionals and yogis alike to safely introduce the ancient practice of yoga and mindfulness to today’s youth facing real-life struggles. The tools to overcome early life trauma come from the sharing of life-building mindfulness and wellness practices that we dive into and immerse ourselves in during this training. We work together to understand how to help youth create a sense of true home in their own bodies, minds and communities.

Our trainer, Katie Okun, will offer an inspiring training that will meet you where you are at, and help you activate your personal plan towards starting a trauma-informed yoga for youth program with the population that you are interested in serving.

Our host for the weekend will be Ryther Child Center. We are proud to be partnering with this great studio for an exciting weekend of learning! Special thanks to our community partners — 8 Limbs Yoga Centers, Seattle Yoga Arts and Peace for the Streets by Kids from the Streets — for their support in bringing this training back to Seattle.  Limited spaces are available. SIGN UP HERE.

Training Schedule: 4/15 * Friday: 5:30pm-9:30pm 4/16 * Saturday: 10:00am-4:00pm 4/17 * Sunday: 10:00am-4:00pm

The training is dynamic, participatory and fun. Our training is NASW approved for Continuing Education Contact Hours for social workers. Yoga teachers may receive Yoga Alliance continuing education credits. You do not need to be a registered yoga teacher for the training, but basic yoga knowledge and experience are important.

Have questions? Visit our Frequently Asked Questions page.

See you there!

Street Yoga Team

 

Student Tax class for US Residents:

You’ve received your 1098T tax form! Student Fiscal Services is presenting this workshop to help US Resident students understand the information on the 1098T tax form and how it relates to education tax credits plus tax issues regarding scholarships and grants. This will be the one tax class offered before the FAFSA deadline of 2/28/16.  Class is appropriate for undergraduate, graduate and professional students.

 

February 22, 2016

12:30pm – 1:30pm

Location: Odegaard Library room 220

Hello everyone!

Please join QMed again for lunch on Tuesday, 2/23/16 from 11-12:30 in room T-747. We will be having a speaker, Shannon Solie with us in a session titled “How To Talk To Patients About Sex” to discuss how to better serve our patients in this realm! Read more below.

We will be ordering 30 Bahn Mi sandwiches on a first come, first served basis. Please sign up on this link so that we can keep an accurate head count! https://www.wejoinin.com/sheets/ttjvs

Tuesday, 2.23.16
11-12:30, T-747
Shannon Solie

“How To Talk To Patients About Sex”

Shannon Solie provides “sex-positive” therapy to individuals, couples, and groups in Capitol Hill. She specializes in working with LGBTQ-identifying people and their allies. Shannon will present not only address how to talk about sex with your patients, but also how to counsel them about their sexual concerns. Then we will have a discussion about how physicians can fill in the gaps. Shannon’s expertise includes sexuality and gender education, sexuality and intimacy, and sexuality and intimacy post-cancer or other life altering diagnosis. Q&A at the end.

If interest is expressed, we will record the session for WWAMI access! Please let us know if this is something that you would benefit from.

We look forward to having you there! Sincerely,

Jessica Keesee

University of Washington School of Medicine MS1
TFA alumna-New Jersey Corps
(360) 610-8610
jkeesee7@gmail.com

The U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), Office of the Ranking Member, seeks unpaid interns for the summer of 2016.  The positions offer undergraduate, graduate, and law students the opportunity to gain substantive experience in a Senate office while participating directly in the legislative process.  Intern responsibilities include, but are not limited to: assisting Committee staff in performing office duties, conducting research, analyzing legislation, drafting memorandums, and organizing hearings.  Interns play a key role in the office and will work closely with senior policy advisors.

HELP Committee:  The HELP Committee works on a wide range of issues in the areas of health, education, labor, workforce, pensions, and oversight. Please specify within your application which office or offices you would prefer to work in.

Qualifications:  Applicants should have (i) an interest in public policy and (ii) a desire to learn.  They also must have good attention to detail, work well under pressure, be self-motivated, and possess excellent written and oral communication skills.  Hours are flexible, but applicants should be available to work in the office at least four full days a week.

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Street Yoga is hosting a screening of PAPER TIGERS, a film that captures the pain, danger, beauty and hopes of struggling teens-and the teachers armed with new science and fresh approaches that are changing lives for the better.

The documentary film, directed by James Redford and Executive Produced by Karen Pritzker, will be screened on March 10, 2016 at The Grand Illusion Cinema and is open to the public. Paper Tigers follows a year in the life of an alternative high school in Walla Walla, WA, that has radically changed its approach to disciplining its students, and in the process has become a promising model for how to break the cycles of poverty, violence and disease that affect families.

Benefit Film Screening for Street Yoga: Paper Tigers – March 10^th – $15

Film screening will be held at the Grand Illusion Cinema — 1403 NE 50th St, Seattle, WA 98105.

Tickets are $15 and can be purchased HERE (includes 3 raffle tickets for a special drawing after the showing)

YogaLOVE’s presenting sponsor, Suja Juice, will be providing free drinks AND we’ll be raffling off wellness prizes at the screening. Prizes include: Spa day passes, massages, cafe gift cards, yoga studio class passes, and more!

Proceeds from the screening go directly towards Street Yoga programming, making it possible for us to bring the benefits of yoga to youth who have experienced trauma.

One of our MSW EDP students works for the Seattle Foundation, which is running a grant cycle for King County organizations that support low income youth and families that work on mental health, homelessness, chemical dependency, child abuse, and/or with non-native English speaking communities.  Grant funding ranges from $5,000-$20,000 and provides up to four one-time, one-year grants.

The RFP information is found here: www.seattlefoundation.org/youth.

University District Street Medicine (UDSM) is recruiting health sciences students for our Leadership Committee! UDSM is an interdisciplinary student group that seeks to improve health outcomes for the homeless population of University District. As part of our homeless outreach program, student volunteers work on the streets of the University District and in community centers to foster relationships, hand out health hygiene supplies, provide social service referrals, and take vital signs under the direction of a licensed preceptor. The Leadership Committee is also in the process of opening a standing acute care clinic for underserved people in the University District. As a member of the Leadership Committee, you will be instrumental in sustaining our outreach efforts and organizing the opening of the clinic.

We are currently accepting applications for the following leadership positions: Operations Director, Development Director, Volunteer Coordinator, Preceptor Coordinator, Referral Coordinator, and Outreach Manager. Feel free to look through the attached document outlining leadership responsibilities. If you are interested, please complete the attached application and return it to

udsmvolunteer@gmail.com by Saturday, February 27^th at 11:59pm. 

Reasons to become a UDSM leader:

• Community organizing – Great opportunity to learn about community health while learning the skills to work with an important underserved population
• Interprofessional learning – get to know students, faculty, and community providers from nursing and other disciplines including medicine, physical therapy and social work

Flexible involvement – leadership commitment is 2-4 hours per week (minimum 2 quarter commitment)

UDSM Leadership Application

UDSM Leadership Position Descriptions

**Note – this workshop is offered through City University and has not been assessed for content by UW-SSW

Private Practice for New Professionals: What You Need to Know to Get Started Friday Feb. 26, 2016 | 9am to 4pm Special Student Rate of $40

Most of us want to go into private practice to help others achieve peace and happiness in their lives. And perhaps to work independently rather than for someone else. Or to supplement our social service agency income. We bring our considerable clinical skills into this venture, but it is important to also remember that a private practice is a business. And as sole practitioners, we need support, supervision, and great self-care skills in order to maintain a successful practice over time. In this workshop, regional area experts will present on topics related to the “nuts and bolts” of setting up and maintaining a successful private practice in the helping professions.

Topics include:

• Business aspects of private practice
• Marketing your practice
• Obtaining supervision and support
• Ethical and legal issues

Faculty for this conference include:

• Laura Groshong, MA, LICSW, Director of Government Relations for the Clinical Social Work Association •Marianne Marlow, MA, LMHC, Co-Secretary of the Washington Mental Health Counselors Association •Reid Stell, MA, Executive Director of the Washington Mental Health Counselors Association

Student Registration $40 – CityU Alumni and Faculty $99 – General $125

For information and to register: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/private-practice-for-new-professionals-what-you-need-to-know-to-get-started-tickets-19850961761

Application due 5pm Friday, 2/19!

The School of Social Work is hiring a new Admissions Director, and SAC needs your help to incorporate student voice in this process! The Admissions Director’s duty is to attract prospective students and coordinate the admissions process to ensure a diverse, talented student body.

With the support of SAC, this Student Representative will be responsible in coordinating engagement opportunities for students in the BASW, MSW Day, EDP evening, EDP weekend and Advance Standing cohorts to interact with final candidates for the Admissions Director position, and gather feedback to help inform their decision in the final interview and selection process.

This role will require 15-20 hours of interviews and Hiring Committee meetings, and, depending on the level of engagement, likely another 10 hours organizing student candidate engagement opportunities and collecting feedback. This role will include an honorarium.

If you are interested in this position, please complete the application and submit it via email to Hana at hanam@uw.edu.       If you have any more questions about this role or the process, please email Dimitri at dimitrigroce@gmail.com.

https://www.dropbox.com/l/s/DLIFg2FcaLvE6URzvlXgkp

ECFS 495 – The Politics of Pre-K (3 credits)

Tuesdays: 4:30 – 6:50

Open to graduate students and undergraduate students! 

This class will look at both the public policies and politics behind the expansion of high quality early education. Utilizing lecture, discussion, and interactive exercises we will look at the latest research, policy conversations, and political strategies to ensure every child starts school ready to learn.

We also hope to have a number of guest speakers either in person or via. While we will address some historical background in this class we will primarily focus on the latest proposals, legislation, and efforts in Washington DC and in Olympia.

Instructor – Joel Ryan

Executive Director, Washington State Association of Head Start & ECEAP/Washington State Training Consortium

We are a team of UW undergraduates working on an project for the UW Environmental Stewardship Committee (ESC) that will provide initial information for launching a Greening Health Sciences Initiative in the near future. We will be working very closely with the schools and colleges that make up UW Health Sciences (Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health, & Social Work) but we are also aware that many pre-med students work towards degrees in other areas of the university so we did want to reach out to advisers campus wide.

We are seeking your assistance on two things:

1. We created a survey to help us understand awareness and interest level of students, faculty and staff in environmental issues related to healthcare. Information collected from this survey will ultimately help implement and improve environmental education and operations efforts across UW Health Sciences. We invite you to take this quick online survey and kindly ask that you pass this survey along to students, staff, and faculty.

   This online survey is completely voluntary, but your participation is greatly appreciated. Due to the large number of survey participants, the likelihood that individuals would be identifiable from responses is very low. You will be asked questions about your knowledge and perception of environmental issues within the health science field. The 12-question survey will take less than 5 minutes to complete. The data will be used to gauge environmental interests and efforts within the health sciences and the results will be incorporated in undergraduate senior theses and presentations on the topic.

Link to survey:
https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/jenpow/291981

2. If you know students, faculty, and staff in your department or school that have an interest in environmental issues related to healthcare education or operations (including environmental issues ranging from topics in hospitals and clinics to topics in global health studies and research) and would like to be more involved, please share their names and contact information with us or pass along this email to them.

We thank you in advance and would be glad to answer any questions you may have about our project. Please send email inquiries to jbucy444@uw.edu

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We here at Medecareers.com have created a job board dedicated to the Healthcare profession and helping Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, Therapist and Physicians and Pharmacists in finding their next career move or possibly their first position.  Please have your students and graduates visit our site, build a profile and post their CV to help them get noticed by facilities, government agencies and those in the recruitment industry.  Our site is free to all applicants please visit us at www.medecareers.com and take the first step in building your future.

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