Internship and Volunteer Placements

Counseling, Social Work, and Expressive Arts Therapy

 Available Year Round

Our NGO partners in India, Kenya and Ghana offer volunteers opportunities to help youth and women work through challenges and build self-esteem, in a safe, confidential and non-judgmental space.

Through volunteer-led talk, art therapy, writing or drama exercises, youth and women develop a new understanding of their emotions and sense of self-worth. We offer an immersive, meaningful, and safe volunteer experience. Village Volunteers works with students to create a tailored internship or volunteer opportunity that will meet their goals and academic requirements. Culturally appropriate curriculum is available.

We encourage students to take advantage of our expertise in finding the right placement. Call or write us for more information. Village Volunteers is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that works in partnership with NGOs in Africa and Asia to support sustainable solutions to community challenges.

www.villagevolunteers.org | info@villagevolunteers.org

5100 S. Dawson Street, Suite 202 Seattle, WA 98118

Ph: 206.577.0515

 

NEW COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT!

Social Work Students will enjoy the new Public Health Leadership, Planning and Advocacy skills class, which was piloted last year and earned top ratings.

HSERV 590A: Public Health Leadership, Planning and Advocacy (4)

SLN 14990

Mondays and Thursdays, 3-4:5pm

South Campus Center 303

In this course you will tackle pressing public health problems with Seattle-area organizations (our “clients”) while working in interdisciplinary teams. You will have a real-world influence on important public health problems while producing a great project for your job portfolio!

 

We have organized some strong projects for students to work on in small teams, including (plus more):

• Increase access to Hepatitis C treatment for active drug users (People’s Harm Reduction Alliance)
• Help city of Auburn residents to better prepare for a variety of emergencies(UW-City of Auburn Livable City Year Program)
• Work with the Somali Health Boardto develop a training for mental health workers in south Seattle
• New WA law on Medicaid access for released prisoners: how’s it going? (NW Health Law Advocates)
• Are we prepared for what happens with all the nuclear weapons in Puget Soundif there’s an earthquake? (Physicians for Social Responsibility)
• With the death of the Affordable Care Act, how should the UW help its students get health insurance? (Hall Health)

Email Amy Hagopian for syllabus or questions, hagopian@uw.edu.

Get to Know Our Neighbors: Challenging Stigmas Q & A

Host: Community, Environment, and Planning (CEP) major, and the College of Built Environments

When: Friday, March 3rd, 2017 @ 4pm

Where: 322 Gould Hall, UW

Who: We are honored to host four panelists that have lived with these struggles and are willing to share their stories. The panel will be moderated by two accomplished housing justice advocates, Polly Trout of Patacara Community Services and David Delgado of Peter’s Place.

Description from our facebook event: Following the success of our Q & A panel last quarter, CEP and the College of Built Environments are delighted to host another panel in our series on homelessness. This time we are shifting the spotlight onto experiences of homelessness that are the most stigmatized. We hope to foster a culture of empathy and challenge the narrative that some unhoused folks are more deserving of services and compassion than others. We are honored to host four panelists that have lived with these struggles and are willing to share their stories. The panel will be moderated by two accomplished housing justice advocates, Polly Trout of Patacara Community Services and David Delgado of Peter’s Place.

Kelly Hostetler | Program Manager

Community, Environment & Planning

Dept. of Urban Design and Planning

College of Built Environments

University of Washington

khoss4@uw.edu • 206.543.1508 • Gould 208Q

LinkedIn • http://cep.be.washington.edu

Study Sustainable Urban Mobility Abroad

 

Please join us for this important training. You can also learn more about OPS’ Stopping Sexual Exploitation: a Program for Men in GQ Magazine and on the BBC World Service.

Wednesday, March 29th

8:30am – 12:30 pm

2100 Building in Seattle

$100 (there may be a student rate – please contact Karen to inquire)

RSVP:  karen.besserman@seattleops.org

Mental Health Professionals Training — Working with Men Who Buy Sex

 

Join the Catholic Community Services Team!
CCS Career Fair
WorkSource Pierce Career Center
1305 Tacoma Ave S
Suite 201
Tacoma, WA 98402
March 9, 2017 10:00am -12:30pm

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Long-Term Disability
• Flexible Spending Account
• Employee Assistance Program
• Wellness Program
• 403b and Pension Plan
• 10.5 paid holidays
• 2 personal holidays
• 3 weeks of vacation leave
• 12 days of sick leave
• Short-term disability
• Cancer insurance
Supplemental Hospitalization Plan Available Positions:

• Therapists (Master’s and Bachelor’s)
• Peer Support
• Family Support Specialists
• Behavioral Support Specialists
• Operational Support
• Program Shelter Generalist
• Case Managers
• Resident Coordinators
• On-Call Teachers
• Homecare Aids
• On Call Cooks
• Regular & On Call Drivers

For career opportunities, please visit:
https://careers-ccsww.icims.com/job 

Dear UW community,

We are second-year graduate students in the UW’s Community-Oriented Public Health Practice program. As part of our Evaluation course, we are evaluating Tent City 3’s stay on our campus during winter quarter.

We seek the views of UW students, faculty and staff about how well the TC3 stay went. Please complete this short questionnaire. It should take 5-10 minutes of your time and your responses will remain anonymous. Your responses will contribute greatly to the power and strength of our evaluation!

Gratefully,
Hena Parveen
Kira McCoy
Khanh Ho

Job Posting: Development Coordinator

Vision House is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit Christian transitional housing program for homeless men, women and their children.

 Position Description: The Development Coordinator supports and drives the projects and data needs of the fundraising department.  Generates, maintains and reports on donation records and provides administrative support to the Development Manager and department.

 Hours: Full-time, 40  hours per week

Rate of Pay: $16.50-$17.50 per hour

Reports to: Development Manager

 

Responsibilities

 Project Management

• All aspects of production process of hard copy appeals (list pulls, printing, billing, mail house/ mail team, data entry, data analysis, archiving, etc.)
• Daily thanking process , working closely with Accounting and Administrative leads:
  • Supervising Volunteers
  • Daily gift acknowledgements
  • New donor recognition
  • Summer Thank You Card to monthly/quarterly donors
• Fundraising/Communications Calendar
  • Manage throughout year: updating, adjusting and supporting team to make deadlines
• Track and report expenses quarterly

Data Management

• Use knowledge of Donor Perfect to develop new ways of viewing data, resulting in new approaches to donor development
• Run reports, mailing lists, email lists
• Assist staff with donor data needs
• Regular Donor Data Clean-up

 Donor Relations

• Support Development Manager and Management team in all aspects of planning, preparation, meetings, and donor development
• Assist in developing and implementing major donor strategies
• Manage major donor data tracking in DP and run reports accordingly
• Identify efficiencies to streamline and/or maximize existing systems

 Support and Assist Team Members as needed

• Project Management: Events, Collateral, Campaigns
• Ambassador Program
• Donor Driven Events
• Editing/Proofing communications and marketing materials
• Inventory of all materials required for all projects

Qualifications

 Education: BA degree or equivalent combination of education and work-related experience.

 Strong database experience and knowledge

• Donor Perfect Experience strongly preferred
• Data management
• Donor research

 Project Management

• Events
• Direct mail appeals
• Presentations
• Volunteer support, supervision

 Marketing experience preferred

• Press Releases

• Public Relations

Other qualifications:

• Activator, highly organized, responsible
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, especially Excel
• Attentive to detail
• Time management and prioritization skills
• A self-starter and a fast learner
• Excellent written, oral and public speaking skills
• Writing and editing experience a plus
• Able to work independently or in a team setting
• Fundraising experience preferred
• Good sense of humor
• Ability to sign Statement of Faith
• Working knowledge of Christ-centered servant leadership
• Passion to make a difference and desire to be a part of a great team!

 

Email resume to Noreen Graham (HR): noreeng@vision-house.org or call 425-228-6356

Unite UW, Portal to the World

 

Find your community, broaden your horizon! Unite UW is now accepting applications for spring quarter. Student Life’s Unite UW is an on campus cultural and personal exchange program that connects domestic students with exchange/international students. This is one quarter commitment. Student groups meet once or twice a week for 7 weeks. Activities on tap for spring quarter: resource fair, culture bean talk, language exchange, Tulip Town trip, game at Gas works AND a weekend retreat at Pack Forest. We provide a structure plus food, lodging and transportation. You gain friendships, community, resource, first-hand cultural experience, as well as benefits from Unite UW’s Alumni network for future social, leadership and career opportunities.

To learn more and apply by March 10th at www.uw.edu/studentlife/uniteuw

Like Unite UW on Facebook, to check out photos from our winter retreat and other adventures.

According to last year’s One Night Count, there was an estimate of 914 people living in their vehicle as a result of inaccessible housing. That number is one-third of the entire population of people experiencing homelessness in Seattle. Council member Mike O’Brien is convening a workgroup to engage on the issues of vehicular living and provide recommendations on policy solutions to address those challenges because of inaccessible housing.

The workgroup includes business leaders, advocates, service providers, and community members with experiences of living in their vehicles. The Vehicular Living Workgroup will be meeting once per week from the second through fifth week of March and will have one additional meeting in late April. Though this work is specific to policy practice, I believe it could be appropriate for any type of social work student: macro in the realm of public policy, mezzo in workgroup functions, and also a micro focus as the work product directly impacts many people experiencing homelessness.

The opportunity could be for a student(s) to attend the meetings and observe this specific political process. The student(s) could also provide some support to the workgroup by doing notetaking and following the workgroup conclusion, I would be happy to invite the student(s) into a meeting with the Council member to discuss their own analysis of the process and provide any feedback to him for his own future policy work. Two of the meetings will be 2 hours, while the other 3 will be one or one and a half hours. All five of the meetings will be located here at City Hall, which is located at 600 4th Ave, Seattle, WA 98104. Workgroup members are currently responding to the Doodle Poll but I will surely send y’all confirmed dates once I have those.

Thank you in advance for helping me connect to students interested in this learning opportunity. Please ask me any questions that you have. And if there are BASW or MSW faculty who you think I should reach out to, you can also let me know.

Jesse Perrin, MSW

Pronouns: He/Him/His

Legislative Aide to Councilmember Mike O’Brien

Seattle City Council

206-684-8800

EVANS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY & GOVERNANCE

PUBPOL 579: Child Well-Being and Public Policy

Spring quarter 2017

Thursdays 8:30-11:30

Savery 130

Associate Professor Heather Hill

hdhill@uw.edu

This course is an elective on public policies that affect children directly, by investing in their development or protecting them from harm.  Many, but not all, of these policies focus on economically disadvantaged children and attempt to address socioeconomic and racial inequalities.  The class will cover the contexts of child well-being, the arguments for government intervention during childhood, and 4-5 specific topics in child policy. In doing so, we will integrate theory and knowledge from Developmental Psychology, Economics, Sociology, and Social Neuroscience. Our focus will be U.S. Federal, state, and local policies. The readings and discussion will relate to interventions across childhood, but there is a greater emphasis on early than middle or late childhood. We will engage both mainstream and critical perspectives on policies.

Our key organizing questions are:

1)      What are the key domains and contexts for child development?

2)      What are the arguments for government intervention during childhood, or for the benefits of investing in children?

3)      What are the areas of policy designed to directly and indirectly benefit children?

4)      What does research evidence tell us about the success or failure of policies focused on children?

5)      What are the political and practical challenges to promoting child well-being with government policy?

 

For the fourth year in a row, Forefront is partnering with the School of Social Work to provide an Assessing and Managing Suicide Risk (AMSR) suicide prevention training to UW graduate students and 2nd year BASW Students.

This year’s training will also be open to UW graduate students from all schools. The training meets certification requirements for health and mental health care professionals as mandated under HB 2315, HB 2366, and HB 1336. For occupation-specific information, contact the Department of Health.

Please provide us with the following information required for registration and pick your training date. The spots will be filled on a first come, first serve basis. Spots are expected to fill up quickly so please register today!

What: Assessing and Managing Suicide Risk (AMSR) Suicide Prevention Training

Benefits to completing the training during Spring Quarter are:

• Fulfill a legal requirement for your professional licensing conveniently offered while in school.
• Trainings are offered at a subsidized cost, a fraction of what they will cost post-graduation.
• Training hours count towards overall practicum hours. Field instructors will be asked to provide relief time during practicum hours to complete the training.
• Most social workers assess and treat clients with suicidal behaviors on a regular basis. Experiencing the suicide of a client during your career is a major occupational hazard.
• Recent legislation has expanded the range of professions requiring suicide prevention training for licensure.

Who can register: Any UW MSW Social Work student, 2nd Year BASW students, and all other UW graduate students can register. Spots are limited, so priority will be given to students closest to graduation. * Graduating students registering before March 7th, 2017 will be accommodated on a first-come first-serve basis. After that date, other students will be accommodated as space is available.

Training Topics: Understanding suicidal behavior, eliciting suicide ideation and plans, formulation of risk, treatment planning, care management, documentation and legal issues.

Where:

March 14th 2017:
University of Washington
Allen Library Auditorium
Room G81L

May 6th 2017:
University of Washington
School of Social Work
Room 305 A/B

Format and available dates:

The training will be a single, full day. It is essential that you attend the full training to receive the certificate of completion.

Available dates:

Tuesday March 14th 2017 8:30am-4:30pm
Saturday May 6th 2017 8:30am-4:30pm

Cost:

Shortly before spring quarter, a $50 fee will be directly charged to your student account, and listed among your tuition fees for Spring 2017. The fee covers the cost of the training, training materials and the certificate of completion that is issued at the end of the training. Completion of this training, including proof demonstrated by the certificate of completion, fulfills this new licensure requirement. Please be advised that training in suicide assessment, treatment and management must be repeated at regular intervals. The timetable for this requirement varies by profession.

*No refunds*

Questions? Contact Forefront @ 206.543.1016 or email: ffront@uw.edu

Please join us for the Benjamin Rabinowitz Symposium in Medical Ethics: Race, Health and Justice from 8.30am to 6.00pm on March 31 2017 at the HUB, Room 340, University of Washington in Seattle.

This cross-disciplinary symposium will bring together students, faculty, researchers and members of the public to discuss racial disparities in health and health care, and the broader social, political, economic and historical structures in which they occur. The symposium will also celebrate the official launch of The Health and Inequality Network (THINK), an interdisciplinary group of students and faculty interested in health equity.

The Keynote speaker will be Myisha Cherry of the Department of Philosophy, University of Illinois, Chicago, and Harvard University. Speakers include faculty and students from English, Medicine, Nursing, Philosophy, Public Health, Sociology, Social Work, and Political Science.

The Symposium is generously sponsored by The Benjamin Rabinowitz Endowment in Medical Ethics; the UW School of Public Health; the UW Department of Philosophy; and the UW Program on Values in Society.

For the preliminary program please click on this link: https://phil.washington.edu/calendar?trumbaEmbed=date%3D20170331#/?i=1

Registration is free but required as space is limited. Please register here: http://bit.ly/RabinowitzRegistration.

For questions about the symposium, please send enquiries to ponvins@uw.edu.

All the best,

Carina Fourie, Anjum Hajat and Hedwig Lee

UW Graduate Certificate in Public Scholarship

Call for Applications

Deadline: Wednesday, April 12, 2017

 

The Certificate in Public Scholarship is a 15-credit course of study, structured by portfolio and practicum learning, and supported by a crossdisciplinary advising network.

As a learning community of graduate students, advisors, campus and community partners, participants in the Certificate in Public Scholarship develop their capacity to:

• Recognize and address institutional and historical relations of inequity and marginalization in campus-community partnerships and practices, while promoting access, equity, and inclusion;
• Facilitate collaboration and build partnerships that promote effective and creative problem-solving for social change;
• Situate their research, teaching, and engagement practices in public or community contexts, while documenting and reflecting critically on those practices;
• Demonstrate and communicate the significance of their scholarly practice for diverse professional and community publics and audiences.

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Applications are due April 12, 2017. Coursework begins Autumn 2017. Graduate students of good standing in any program at the University of Washington are eligible to apply.

 

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Learn more about the Certificate in Public Scholarship at www.simpsoncenter.org/certificate-public-scholarship 

 

Information sessions for graduate students and faculty:

 

• Tuesday, March 2, 4:00pm, CMU 218D
• Thursday, March 30, 4:00pm, CMU 218D

 

Register at https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/cpsadmin/325018

 

Question? Contact Graduate Program Advisor, Miriam Bartha, at mbartha@uw.edu.

 

 

 

The date for the webinar announced at the CSWE Atlanta Board meeting on how social work education should respond to the changing political landscape has now been set. The live webinar will be held March 21 at 12:00 PM (EDT).

To register at no cost and for more information, faculty and students can go to: https://learningacademy.cswe.org/products/how-should-social-work-education-respond-to-the-changing-political-landscape. CSWE non-members can join the live event at no cost by creating a CSWE account (allow 48 hours for the registration to be processed). A recording will also be made available.

How should social work education respond to the changing political landscape?

Dear Campus Community,

Please note the change in time and location for our upcoming town halls!

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Join us for an open discussion of policies, resources, and current initiatives. The town hall is a 3-part series with a new topic each meeting. Each meeting will take place in the Q Center from 4:30 – 5:30 PM. 

Remaining Sessions: 

March 1: Health & Wellness on Campus and in the Community 

March 8: Impact of Homelessness on LGBTQ+ Communities 

If you’re not able to attend, please join us at a future session and/or you can participate anonymously in the Virtual Town Hall by accessing our survey: http://tinyurl.com/Qtownhall

JSIS 478H LGBTI Rights in International Affairs

Instructor: Dr. Elise Carlson-Rainer

Email: eacr@uw.edu

TIME: Tues, Thurs 12:30- 2:20, Spring 2017

ROOM: ROOM: MEB 250
During this course, students will examine the intense global debate over LGBTI equality norms and
how it impacts international affairs. Discussions will address how human rights concepts have
evolved, strategies of social movements, and how states influence one another based upon
normative values. Through guest speakers, group projects, and policy simulations, students will gain experiential learning of human rights advocacy. The course offers an overview of LGBTI rights in international affairs, U.S. and E.U. human rights foreign policies, and contemporary debates in the UN on global rights. Class participants will investigate NGOs and civil society advocacy strategies that lead to foreign policy reform, Sweden’s feminist foreign policy, and how human rights is, or is not, prioritized over security interests. The course ends with a negotiation simulation of the U.S. conditioning aid to Uganda based upon LGBTI rights abuses.

 

Exciting Opportunity!: Students will meet the U.S.’ first-ever Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBTI People appointed by Secretary of State John Kerry.

Save the Date: On February 22nd, stop by the Q Center and wish us a happy 13th birthday! It wouldn’t be a party without CAKE, so we’ve got free Cupcake Royale for the first 100 guests between 11AM – 1PM!

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