Our organization is looking for someone interested in shadowing our Resource Development & Marketing Manager and supporting their work. The internship would involve researching grant and funding opportunities, as well as gaining hands-on experience writing grant proposals. Please feel free to circulate this opportunity in any courses you will be teaching or with any students you feel would be interested. I am including a brief description of our organization and the internship opportunity below:

InterIm Community Development Association (InterIm CDA) has an exciting opportunity for an internship and is looking for interested volunteers! InterIm CDA is committed to promoting resiliency in Asian, Pacific Islander, immigrant, and refugee communities through culturally and linguistically responsive community building. Located in Chinatown/International District, InterIm CDA develops affordable housing, provides housing services to low-income residents of Seattle, operates the Danny Woo Community Garden for elders in the community, and runs the Wilderness Inner-City Leadership Development Program for youth. For more information about InterIm CDA and our work, check out our website. 

Interns would support our Resource Development and Marketing Manager in researching grant and funding opportunities and have the chance to develop skills in grant proposal writing and gain hands-on experience with non-profit development work. Please contact Sarah Birkebak via email at sbirkebak@interimicda.org if you are interested!

SOC 590 A: Special Topics In Sociology

SOC 590 A: Foundations of Population Health and Health Disparities  

Department of Sociology
Autumn Quarter ∙ 2016
Fridays ∙ 1:30-3:20PM ∙ SAV 409

Instructor: Hedwig (Hedy) Lee
Office: Savery 234
Email: hedylee@uw.edu

Note to MSW students – MSW students may count 3 credits from outside the department towards your MSW elective requirement with no further permission as long as the class is graduate level (500 level) and it can be related to your work in social work.

Course Description:

This course seeks to provide an overview and understanding of the nature and social determinants of the health of human populations, disparities in health within and between populations, and of ways in which population health may be improved by the translation of scientific knowledge into interventions and public policy. It explicitly envisions the linking of social, environmental, and biological theories into a new perspective on population health, with a particular emphasis on theories and research in sociology and demography within the United States. This course will expose graduate students to research across a variety of disciplines that examine the social conditions that are related to health and health disparities within populations, and some of the mechanisms through which these patterns are produced and persist. Students will engage in discussions of the reading material toward the goal of setting research agendas to resolve key debates and plot new paths for research and theory in population health. The course will also serve as an opportunity for students to develop their own research interests in this area.

This is a new, growing, and interdisciplinary area of scientific and policy concern. Therefore, it is one in which there are still substantial differences in knowledge, viewpoints and understanding.  We will try to recognize these disparate views, while also trying to achieve the best common understanding that we can.

Hedwig (Hedy) Lee, Associate Professor

Department of Sociology

Email: hedylee@uw.edu

Phone: 206.543.4572

Working with Trauma Survivors
Friday, September 30, 2016
At City University

There will be two workshops, and participants have the choice of attending one or both. The morning session will be Doing Trauma Assessment in Non-Trauma-Specific Settings and the afternoon session is Trauma Therapy with Diverse Populations. Presented by Janet Brodsky, LICSW, joined in the afternoon by Maliha Mirza, MSW:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/working-with-trauma-survivors-seminars-tickets-26061280993

6 CEUs are available (3 per session) for MSWs, MHCs, MFTs, and CDPs, as well as clock hours for Educators.

IDENTIFYING AND TALKING ABOUT YOUR STRENGTHS

A CUSTOMIZED WORKSHOP FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

 

Special Summer Quarter Workshop for International Students Thursday July 21, 2016

You have heard how important it is to know your strengths and skills, both for career exploration and job search, and know that employers are eager for you to write and talk clearly about how you are a good match for a position and organization.  Yet, students are often at a loss and confused about to how to express these strengths and skills, both in writing and talking to potential employers.   The Career Center is holding a special one day workshop, Identifying and Talking About Your Strengths, customized  for international students to help you clearly identify your unique strengths and skills, as well how to conduct a strengths based career exploration & job search process, write a strengths based resume and conduct a strengths based interview.  This workshop is limited to 20 students maximum, so register as soon as possible to secure your spot.

http://uwcareerswebforms.com/identifyingstrengthsws/

 

Details:

Workshop: Identifying and Talking About your Strengths for International Students (derived from the Dependable Strengths Articulation Process)

Date: Thursday July 21, 2016

Time: 10 am – 4pm

Locations: MGH 258

Facilitator: Katie Hearn Zang, Dependable Strength Master Trainer and Career Counselor working with International Students

Cost: $30 (includes materials and lunch)

 

If you have any questions please contact Katie Hearn Zang at khz@uw.edu

The Organization for Prostitution Survivors invites you to participate in an upcoming training:

 

Working with Survivors of Commercial Sexual Exploitation

 

This is a one-day training for service providers, chemical dependency professionals, social workers, nursing professionals, mental health service providers and students on reducing barriers to social service support for survivors of prostitution.

 

The training will take place on Tuesday, July 19^th from 9am-4pm.

 

Up to 6 CEUS will be provided for licensed social workers, marriage and family therapists, and mental health counselors. Up to 6 CEUS will also be provided for chemical dependency professionals by NAADAC Education Provider.

 

Register with an email to Karen.besserman@seattleops.org

 

Cost:

$120.00 for professionals

$60.00 for students (limited number of student fees available)

 

Please pay when you register through PayPal.

  

Thank You,

Debra Boyer, PhD

Executive Director