Dear Health Sciences Student Community,

Welcome new and returning students!  We would like to introduce everyone to the Health Equity Circle, a collective of health sciences students organizing around social justice issues pertaining to the health of our communities around Seattle and beyond.  We believe that our obligations as healthcare providers extend beyond the traditional American medical model, and that we must understand and address the social contexts of our patients as part of holistic patient care.  You are all invited to our first social, on October 3, 2016, from 5:30 – 6:30 pm, South Campus Center, room 224. Come hang out with us and talk about the things you care about!

Please RSVP here (https://www.wejoinin.com/sheets/brqbj) if you plan on coming! Food will be provided!!!

Due to the success of our Spring quarter series on ‘Trump in the World: International Impacts of the Trump Presidency’ we have organized a sequel, with a new series of all-new ‘Trump in the World’ talks in Fall quarter.  All talks are by Jackson School faculty.

If you are interested in learning more about the international implications of the Trump administration’s policies, sign up for the series, come to the talks, and earn 2 cr (CR/NC).   Attendance and sign-in at all talks is required to earn credits.

Graduate students are welcome to attend any/all talks without registering.

Course information for undergraduates: (you can register now!)

JSIS 478 A – Trump in the World – A Series of Talks and Discussions on the International Impact of the Trump Presidency

Moderator: Professor Resat Kasaba, Director of the Jackson School

Mondays 4:30-6 pm

Kane Hall 110

SLN 16869

List of speakers and topics:

• Mon Oct 2:  Professor Daniel Bessner:  Trump and the World – A Historical Perspective
• Mon Oct 9:  Professor Joel Migdal:  The Middle East and Israel
• Mon Oct 16: Professor Kristian Coates Ulrichsen:  Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the Gulf
• Mon Oct 23: Professor Tony Lucero:  The US-Mexican Border
• Mon Oct 30: Professor Sunila Kale:  India
• Mon Nov 6: Professor David Bachman:  China
• Mon Nov 13:  Professor Yong-Chool Ha:  The Korean Peninsula
• Mon Nov 20: Professor Sara Curran: The International Climate Regime
• Mon Nov 27: Professor Glennys Young:  Russia
• Mon Dec 4:  Final Panel Discussion and Round Table

I know you’ve been wondering, when is the next SDRG Science Wednesday? I am glad you asked!

Please mark your calendars for

December 6, 2017

9-10 am

SDRG (9725 3^rd Ave NE, Suite 401)

Cascade conference room (4^th floor)

Kevin Haggerty, Amy Salazar, and Kristin McCowan will present on some of the qualitative work they have been doing, particularly using focus groups with foster parents of LGBTQ2S youth who have aged out of foster care.

​Registration for the fall quarter QUAL Workshop is now open! It will be held Nov. 3, 2017 from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. (with a break for lunch) in the CSSCR computer lab in Savery Hall 117.

This workshop is intended to give participants a hands-on tutorial on how to use qualitative data analysis (QDA) software to complete a research project – from literature review, through data coding and analysis.

The workshop is free and designed for UW graduate students. Faculty and staff working on qualitative research are also welcome. To learn more about the workshop and register, visit this site.

If you are a grad student still shopping around for fall courses as the quarter begins, please also see our list of projected courses for 2017-18.

You’re invited to the Multigen Fall Brown-Bag Lunch Discussion Series:

Thursdays, 12:30-1:30, Room 116

Each week we will have an informal speaker/facilitator on student-generated subjects related to a cross-generational perspective on families, with a special focus on aging.

September 28, 2017      Wendy Lustbader

October 5, 2017      Clara Berridge

October 12, 2017      Sarah Jen, SSW Doctoral Candidate

October 19, 2017      Wendy Lustbader

October 26, 2017      Karen Fredriksen Goldsen

November 2, 2017     Tingting Lian, Doctoral Student at The University of Tokyo

November 9, 2017    Wendy Lustbader

November 16, 2017    Aida Wells

November 23, 2017   Thanksgiving holiday/ no meeting

November 30, 2017    Wendy Lustbader

December 7, 2017        Karen Fredriksen Goldsen
Clara Berridge, PhD, MSW
Assistant Professor
School of Social Work
Mail: Box 354900, Seattle, WA 98195-4900?
4101 15th Avenue NE, Seattle, WA 98105-6299
clarawb@uw.edu<mailto:clarawb@uw.edu> / socialwork.uw.edu<socialwork.uw.edu/>
(pronouns: she/her/hers)

Open House/Info Sessions @ the Q Center (HUB 315)
The Q Center is hosting a series of open house sessions where we will discuss a variety of resources for LGBTQ+ community members followed by games and mingling. The sessions occur over two days, twice per day, and guests can show up to any of the sessions to receive similar information.

Tuesday, September 26th
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM (first session)
2:00 – 3:00 PM (second session)
Social from 3:00 – 5:00 PM

Wednesday, September 27th
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM (first session)
2:00 – 3:00 PM (second session)
Social from 3:00 – 5:00 PM

14th Annual Welcome Luncheon @ wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ  Intellectual House (4249 Whitman Court) 

​~ Featuring Nikkita Oliver as keynote​

Friday, September 29th

11:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Join us for our largest event of the year featuring fabulous speakers, free lunch, networking, and a fancy photobooth! This event is free and open to the campus community. Feel free to stop by for part or all of the event.

For more information, visit our Facebook event page or contact The Q Center at 206-897-1430 or qcenter@uw.edu.

dawg daze 2017

You’re Invited: 2nd Annual Calling Home Ceremony

Calling home the spirits of University of Washington student, staff, faculty, and alumni veterans of all generations.

There are over 1,800 current student veterans across our three campuses who currently call the University of Washington home, in addition to the countless alumni who have served.  For many who came to UW after military service, campus was not always a welcoming place to be a veteran.  We as a society and a campus are working to better honor and integrate returning military members with the communities they served.  To the many for whom this has been a reality, this program welcomes you home to the UW family.

The “Calling Home” ceremony pays homage to the American Indian and Alaska Native tradition of embracing and celebrating those returning from uniformed service.  As service members transition to their new identity as a veteran, the tribe willingly accepts the burden of responsibility as a collective.

Let no warrior carry the burden of coming home on their own.  The University of Washington accepts the responsibility to walk with members of the military community on their new journey.

Join Student Veteran Life and the Intellectual House for this unique event celebrating our Husky Veterans from all generations, honor their service, and call them home to the University of Washington! Don’t miss your chance to hear from a powerful lineup, including UW President, Ana Mari Cauce.

Attendees who RSVP below by October 3rd will be given free campus parking for the event.

RSVP

We are excited to kick off Dawg Daze, our University Welcome Week, beginning today. During the next two weeks many of your departments, units, and RSO’s are hosting over 250 events. We want to express our thanks to your staff, faculty, and student teams for their support of first year student success.

You can see the full schedule of Dawg Daze events on our website, or via our new app (search “University of Washington New Huskies” in the app store of your choice). We have several new events this year including  a new initiative to Fill the Campus Food Pantry during our late night shopping at Fred Meyer event, and the celebration of the 30^th year of the First-year Interest Group Program.

Winter positions – UW Honors admissions readers – Due 10/5

The University Honors Program has an exciting opportunity to hire two graduate student admissions readers for Winter Quarter 2018. We would appreciate your assistance in spreading the word about this opportunity – this is an excellent chance for graduate students to work with higher education professionals from across campus in the review of undergraduate freshmen applications to the Honors Program for admittance Autumn Quarter 2018.

A detailed position description can be found on the UW Hires System under the requisition number # 149117 – please note that it closes on 10/5/2017.

The University Honors Program is an innovative and collaborative community engaged in rigorous interdisciplinary exploration. Students can pursue Honors as a general education track, as an in-depth program within their majors, or as a combination of the two. They may apply as new freshmen, at the end of their first year, or once they’ve selected a major. We prepare our students to ask and answer bold questions about the challenges facing our ever-changing world. Our students participate in small classes with faculty from across campus and work across the university, challenging themselves and each other to take intellectual risks and commit to conscious global citizenship.

The Washington State Society for Clinical Social Work is excited to have feminist therapist Dr. Laura Brown teaching our fall clinical conference on

Culturally Competent Trauma Treatment, on Friday October 13th in the U District. The student cost for this day-long conference is $50. Please see the conference description below. You can register on the website: http://wsscsw.org/clinicalconferences

	Culturally Competent Trauma Treatment With Dr. Laura Brown   October 13, 2017 9:00 am to 4:00 pm

Dr. Laura Brown, a clinical psychologist in Seattle, has spent her career working with survivors of childhood trauma. A recipient of many awards for her work in trauma treatment and feminist therapy, she is the author of 11 books, including Feminist Psychotherapy, and dozens of articles and chapters. She founded the Fremont Community Therapy Project and is a therapist, trainer, consultant and supervisor.

Dr. Brown’s model of cultural competence focuses on self-awareness of the therapist’s own intersecting strands of identity, cultural norms and biases and the ability to be sensitive to the nuances of human difference. This model of cultural competence is inherently integrative in that it focuses on people, not theories, and on distress, dysfunction, strength and resilience, not specific diagnoses.

Conference Objectives

• Understand how culturally competent practice enhances clinical effectiveness through improvement of the therapeutic alliance.
•  Develop enhanced awareness of culturally informed countertransference and transference dynamics as they play out in therapy, especially when different is non-obvious.
• Be able to utilize a variety of definitions of what can be traumatic, using a culturally competent lens for clinical practice.
• Understand how to use the ADDRESSING model in a trauma informed clinical practice.

CEU’s Offered

6.0 ceu’s, LICSW, LMFT, LMHC, included in the price

Meeting Location

University Heights Center, Seattle

For more information and to register visit http://wsscsw.org/clinicalconferences

Friends,

The last week has been trying for our community especially as we face a deadline that is less than three weeks away. We have fantastic news from one of our trusted national partners, Mission Asset Fund (MAF).

In 2012, MAF collaborated with 21 Progress on our first 150 DACA assistance loans in Washington State. Now, MAF is offering free DACA renewal scholarships.

Simply apply at LC4DACA.org and MAF will send a check already written out to USCIS for payment of DACA renewal. This is not a loan and no one will be asked to pay the money back. The deadline to renew DACA is October 5 for eligible participants, so apply for this scholarship as soon as possible.

Since 2015, MAF has provided $5 million dollars in financial assistance to immigrants as a nonprofit. In the past, this took the form of lending circles – now they have switched to DACA renewal scholarships.

Due to the urgent DACA deadline, Mission Asset Funds has received enough funding to cover every DACA renewal in the United States for free.

Mission Asset Funds is committing to sending the scholarship through priority mail within 48 hours of receiving your DACA renewal scholarship application, if eligible.
APPLY FOR DACA RENEWAL SCHOLARSHIP
If you have any concerns about your DACA renewal, legal clinics are available to help you with your application. You can find a list for Washington state here: https://www.nwirp.org/options-after-daca-community-forums/ and http://www.seattle.gov/iandraffairs/programs/daca#top
Step 1: Complete your DACA renewal application (get help at a legal clinic) if your DACA expires on or before March 5 to be eligible for a renewal.

Step 2: Apply for a free DACA renewal scholarship at LC4DACA.ORG.

Step 3: Send your application to USCIS before October 5 according to your state here: https://www.uscis.gov/i-821d-addresses
IMPORTANT: Scholarship applications must be fully completed. Please answer every question.
Please share this information widely! We want to reach as many people as possible. No one should miss the renewal deadline due to financial concerns. These scholarships are for the entire United States of America.
WASHINGTON: If you have any questions about this process or problems during your application, please email us at daca@21progress.org. If you are outside of Washington state, please contact MAF directly: (888) 274-4808

www.21progress.org

-Student Services Student Assistant (EASS03)

-Office Assistant (EASS01)

Job descriptions, qualifications, and instruction for application can be viewed here: https://apps.osfa.washington.edu/workstudy/pages/jobs.php

2 br rental available near buslines, Burke-Gilman Trail

3932 Woodland Park Ave N. Please message us to arrange a showing through craigslist:

https://seattle.craigslist.org/see/apa/6303677850.html

 

Fabulous 60’s 4-plex. Completely restored and updated to preserve mid-century charm. Period light fixtures.  Super clean and well-maintained. We are small-scale housing providers and provide top-notch customer service.  Drive by and have a look: 3932 Woodland Park Ave N. Please email us to arrange a showing.

 

Quiet residential neighborhood near shops, bars and restaurants of Fremont, Wallingford & Stone Way.   Live a car-free life! Super convenient for walking (83 Walk Score), 2 blocks from multiple bus lines.  Extremely bike friendly neighborhood. 5 blocks from Burke-Gilman Trail. Secure covered bike storage.  Small, friendly building. Private back yard for gardening and gatherings.  No Pets. Sorry!  Onsite coin-op laundry. Storage locker included.  Off street parking available.  Landlord pays water, sewer, garbage included.  Prefer a 12 month lease.

 

We are eager to meet you! Feel free to email us for details of our application process and any other questions.

SOC W 586 – Policy Advocacy – Local Government (1 cr)

Thursdays, 5-5:50pm

SLN: 23632

Course Description

This is the first of three, one-credit CR/NC courses to be conducted in each of the three quarters of the school year. The fall quarter focuses on the nuts and bolts of local government policymaking, the winter quarter focuses on the Washington state legislative process, and the spring quarter focuses on the federal government. The emphasis for each quarter is involvement in the policymaking processes, starting with the basics – who are my elected representatives? How do I communicate with them? How do I get others to do the same? This experiential learning is accompanied by substantive information on how each level of government works and how to be an effective advocate. The goal is to give social workers and others the tools they need to play a part in the policymaking process.  Policy materials—news articles, reports, analyses, laws, regulations, budgets, and other related publications will make up the readings.

The Fall 2017 Quarter

Local government plays an important in the lives of people with lower incomes and other marginalized populations. The goal of this quarter is to get students comfortable with city and county legislative processes as well as land use and other regulatory processes that make up public policy on the local level. Students will have the opportunity to explore local policy issues of their choosing, such as living wage jobs, access to transportation, affordable housing, inclusionary zoning and city and local budgets.

This year also marks a City Council election. We will be following elections and ballot issues and analyzing the potential policy outcomes for low income and marginalized populations. This course has three goals. First, to give students a general sense of how local government works and the role it plays with respect to social policy. Second, to give students a sense of how local government and the people it serves are affected by changes in the law.  And third, to give students an experience in influencing local policies, so that it can become a part of their social work identity.

Community Transition Solutions (CTS) 2017

King County Community Partnership for Transition Solutions (KCCPTS) provides services to individuals returning to the community from prison and jail. More information is available at: www.kccpts.org

Volunteers are needed at the September 22 event for the following duties:

– Event setup (placing tables and chairs in various rooms and Gathering Hall; placing signage)

–  Clean up (replace tables and chairs; collect signage; collect feedback questionnaires)

– Assist vendors (i.e., service providers) as needed

– Assist attendees to find their services and other event locations

– Identify attendees that need help with their Needs Assessment Worksheet

– Assist Volunteer Leads for particular duties (i.e., kitchen; registration; vendor check-in; vendor support)

CTS will take place at the New Holly Learning Center, located at 7058 32nd Avenue South, Seattle, WA  98118

The event schedule is as follows:

7:00 am

Volunteers Arrive – Orientation and Event Set Up

Lobby of Learning Center Building

8:30 am to 9:00 am

Welcome – Gathering Hall (Child Care Building)

9:00 am to 10:00 am

Opening Program – Gathering Hall (Child Care Building)

Special Guest Speaker – Seattle Council Member Larry Gossett

Vendor Set Up – 2nd Floor Learning Center Building

Vendors should arrive between 9:00 am and 9:30 am to set up their space.

Vendor check-in is located on the 2nd floor.

10:00 am to 12:00 pm

Vendor Services and Solutions Providers Available

2nd Floor Learning Center Building

12:15 pm to 1:30 pm

Lunch – Gathering Hall (Child Care Building)

1:30 to 2:00 pm

End of Event and Clean Up

At this event, vendors, attendees, and volunteers will enjoy a meal together during the lunchtime program.  Volunteers can reply to: ctsinfo@kccpts.org  Please let me know if you have any questions about this community event.

The Q Center “Qrew” can’t wait to kick off a new year with you! (Q)ueue up our fun fall events:
Open House/Info Sessions @ the Q Center (HUB 315)
The Q Center is hosting a series of open house sessions where we will discuss a variety of resources for LGBTQ+ community members followed by games and mingling. The sessions occur over two days, twice per day, and guests can show up to any of the sessions to receive similar information.

Tuesday, September 26th
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM (first session)
2:00 – 3:00 PM (second session)
Social from 3:00 – 5:00 PM

Wednesday, September 27th
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM (first session)
2:00 – 3:00 PM (second session)
Social from 3:00 – 5:00 PM

14th Annual Welcome Luncheon @ wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ  Intellectual House (4249 Whitman Court) 

Friday, September 29th

11:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Join us for our largest event of the year featuring fabulous speakers, free lunch, networking, and a fancy photobooth! This event is free and open to the campus community. Feel free to stop by for part or all of the event.

For more information, visit our Facebook event page or contact The Q Center at 206-897-1430 or qcenter@uw.edu.

Looking for an elective course to take this fall? The UW Tobacco Studies Program is offering HSERV 556/FAMED 559 during Autumn 2017. This is a 2-credit, online course. For more details and a sample syllabus, see the below description, or visit our website.

HSERV 556/FAMED 559 – Tobacco Related Health Disparities

Instructors: Sarah Ross-Viles, MPH and Gillian Schauer, PhD

(online; 2 credits; full term)

• Integrates multiple disciplinary perspectives to address the pressing issue of disproportionate tobacco use and related diseases among marginalized populations, including those defined by socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity, and sexual orientation. Explores links between, and intervention strategies for, smoking and mental illness, social stress, acculturation processes, and genetics

Still Room in Course Exploring Feminist Coalition Politics! M/W 9:30 – 11:20

Fundraising and Development Assistant

Washington Autism Alliance & Advocacy – Redmond, WA
Part-time

REPORTS TO: Special Events and Community Engagement Coordinator

SUMMARY : Washington Autism Alliance & Advocacy (WAAA) is an amazing and exciting organization that does cutting edge work on behalf of individuals with ASD/DD and their families. You could be part of this amazing work!

WAAA is searching for a motivated, organized, data-loving fundraising professional to join our staff. For this position we are seeking someone who will bring great organizational and database skills to advance the WAAA fund development plan, with primary focus on stewardship. The ideal candidate will help promote a culture of reciprocity, teamwork, inclusion, stewardship and philanthropy.

Candidates must demonstrate in-depth knowledge of sales, marketing and business development as outlined in their cover letter and resume.

More info at: https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=efc6b053ca7cea10&tk=1bpa40oodb820c6l&from=company

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