We are looking forward to welcoming everyone back to the new school year and thrilled to kick off the School of Social Work’s Student, Staff and Faculty of Color Affinity Group with a community gathering on October 18^th!  If you haven’t already, please join our listserv if you want to stay connected! Our aim is to create space and community for folks that self-identify as people of color, including biracial and multiracial individuals.

I am attaching the following Graduate Opportunities and Minority Achievement (GO-MAP) fact sheets and flyers:

• GO-MAP 2018 Fall Quarter Events- Highlights upcoming programs for this quarter (including our biggest community building event of the year “Getting Connected” on October 12^th)
• GO-MAP fact sheet- Features GO-MAP’s overall mission as well as an overview of key dates for the entire academic year
• The Outreaching Grads (OGs) Program handout – Spotlights our tri-campus program (launched last year) that strives to increase the racial and ethnic diversity of the graduate student pipeline

Quarterly Event Flyer

Join us on 10/5 for our next SWBC Speaker Series talk: Health Insurance & Student Access to Care.

Details and the link to RSVP are available here.

SWBC Speaker series 10.5.18

Please see this site for scholarship opportunities:  https://mydocumentedlife.org/2016/09/12/scholarships-open-to-undocumented-students/

You might also be interested in the “My Undocumented Life” blog at:

https://mydocumentedlife.org/

And UW “Leadership without Borders” which provides support and resources to undocumented students:

http://depts.washington.edu/ecc/lwb/

My name is Iris Song, Psy.D., and I am one of the psychologists at the Counseling Center and one of the Let’s Talk counselors. As the academic year is starting, I just wanted to remind you of the Let’s Talk program. Please keep Let’s Talk in mind for students who may have a difficult time getting to Hall Health Mental Health or the Counseling Center, but would benefit from a consultation with mental health practitioners.

Meetings are confidential and can be anonymous, but are not a replacement for counseling/therapy/psychiatry. Please help us spread the word!

 Let’s Talk.  Drop-in consultation with a counselor, a collaboration between the Counseling Center and Hall Health Center

• Tuesdays 2-4pm with Iris Song at the Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center
• Wednesdays 2-4pm with Kate Fredenberg at the Q Center in the HUB
• Offered during the 10 weeks of each quarter.

The Buerk Center has many ways for students to try their hand in entrepreneurship, and in fall quarter here are two ways to do just that!

(undergrads should register for 400 level credits, grads for 500 level credits.)

Register for Fall:  Two 2-credit classes

Open to all Undergraduate & Graduate students from any department. No experience necessary.

Environmental Innovation Practicum (2 credits) | Tuesdays | 4 to 5:50 pm (now CR/NC)

Cross-listed: ENTRE 443/543, ENGR 498A, ENVIR 495

In each weekly seminar, students will hear directly from the entrepreneurs solving some of the world’s most pressing environmental problems. Past speakers included Amanda Sturgeon, CEO International Living Futures Institute and Chad Frischmann, VP Project Drawdown. Students then form interdisciplinary teams and create project-based solutions while receiving coaching from environmental professionals and entrepreneurs. Excellent preparation for the Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge. Questions? Email Cassie Maylor.

Health Innovation Practicum (2 credits) | Thursdays | 5 to 6:50 pm

Cross-listed: ENTRE 445/545

Students will hear inspiring guest speakers discuss the challenges every young business in healthcare or life sciences could face. By the end of the course students will have an awareness of the system of regulation of health technologies, the process of development, and the economics of healthcare. Great preparation for the Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge or healthcare careers. Questions? Email Terri Butler.

Washington Medical Case Management Association is holding their Fall conference at the Lynnwood Convention Center.

WMCMA Annual Fall Conference 2018- Student Discount notice

There is a GREAT webinar about health resources and health insurance on campus at:

https://vimeo.com/user16721111/review/290542593/ac2730c776

This addresses insurance, health and mental health care, etc.

Also, Hall Health has extended hours to 5:30, M-F.  More information:

Hall Health’s is now open and seeing patients until 5:30PM, Monday through Friday:

• Monday – 8AM-5:30PM
• Tuesday – 9AM-5:30PM
• Wednesday – 8AM-5:30PM
• Thursday – 8AM-5:30PM
• Friday – 8AM-5:30PM

Note that our lab closes at 5PM each day, so students will not be able to drop in for lab tests (i.e., measles immunity blood tests) after 5PM.

Pharmacy hours

The Hall Health Center Pharmacy is open Monday through Friday from 9AM-5PM.

After hours care

For free after-hours medical advice, students should call (206) 744-2500. Students experiencing a mental health crisis after hours should call King County Crisis Connections at (206) 461-3222.

For in-person after-hours needs, UW Neighborhood Clinics – Ravenna is located within walking distance of campus and offers evening and weekend urgent care.

The Department of Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Informatics has an outstanding opportunity for a part time RESEARCH STUDY ASSISTANT.  Research investigators are currently seeking a highly motivated and organized individual to serve as an assistant to a team of faculty and staff studying the “science of team science”—specifically focusing on barriers and facilitators to collaborative research and delivering and evaluating team training to research teams. The research assistant will assist with data collection (survey, text, and interview) and analysis. The UW Institute of Translational Health Sciences (ITHS) supports this work. This a great opportunity to obtain valuable experience in the field of team science research.

Please submit resume via email at nwoodard@uw.edu on or before September 21 at 5:00 pm. More information here.

Our partners at the Northwest Center for Public Health Practice just announced a funding opportunity for health professions students completing practice-based projects.

Twenty students will be funded up to $3,500 each during the 2018-19 school year.

For more information visit the Student Projects page on their website.

Come volunteer with University District Street Medicine (UDSM)

Our mission is to serve as an interdisciplinary, student- and community-driven bridge to care for those experiencing homelessness in the University District through: Dedicated Street Outreach, Close Community Partnerships, and Free Clinic-based Care.

A bit more about us: We have several outreach sites in the U District as well as a few new upcoming project sites in Belltown and Capitol Hill!

Our volunteering commitment is very flexible, and since outreach groups are small, there is a lot of close interaction with our clients and preceptors. We also aim to provide ongoing education and training opportunities to our volunteers so we can become better providers to communities experiencing homelessness in our future practice.

We are having our Fall Recruitment event on Tuesday, Sept. 25, 5:45 – 7:45 PM, at HSB T-435. Dinner provided!

We will have an introduction to our work in the first hour, and a walk-thru to get fully onboarded as a volunteer in the 2nd hour.

You’ll walk out of the event ready to volunteer with us!

Please sign up here at: https://www.wejoinin.com/sheets/wdzzb

For more information, please check out our website at: tinyurl.com/udsmed

OR feel free to contact me (Joan) at joanc17@uw.edu (I’ll also be at the Activities Fair on Tuesday 9/18 so please come say hi!)

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https://www.wsscsw.org/clinicalconferences

Transforming Powerlessness into Power: Emancipatory Practices for Healing Trauma in Activists and other Woke Folks

Co-Sponsored with Seattle University School of Social Work

Vanessa Jackson, MSW

Visiting Seattle from Atlanta, Georgia, licensed clinical social worker Vanessa Jackson, MSW will explore the importance of “power literacy” when working with marginalized communities and their allies. She will offer attendees a framework of the Seven Healing Questions to support exploration into how power impacts our functioning, our relationships and our capacity to maintain a state of emotional well-being.

Course Objectives 

• Participants will demonstrate knowledge of Power Wounding as a traumatic experience and how it manifests in clinical and community settings.
• Participants will demonstrate knowledge of the three aspects of power and how to create culturally conscious and emancipatory interventions and supports in the service of healing.
• Participants will demonstrate their ability to utilize the Seven Healing Questions as a tool for individual, family and community assessment and healing.

About the Presenter

Vanessa Jackson, LICSW is Soul Doula and owner of Healing Circles, Inc., a personal and professional development consulting practice.  Ms. Jackson earned a Master Degree from Washington University-George Warren Brown School of Social Work.  Ms. Jackson is the author of In Our Own Voice: African-American Stories of Oppression, Survival and Recovery in Mental Health Systems and Separate and Unequal: The Legacy of Racially Segregated Psychiatric Hospitals, monographs on the history of African-American psychiatric experiences , Surviving My Sister’s Suicide: A Journey Through Grief  in Living Beyond Loss: Death in the Family (Monica McGoldrick and Froma Walsh, Eds.), Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: Feminist Reflections on Therapy with Low-wage Earning Women  in Psychotherapy with Women: Exploring Diverse Contexts and Identities ( Marsha P. Mirkin, et al ,Eds.) and Families of African Origin: An Overview with L. Black in  Ethnicity and Family Therapy, 3^rd Edition ( Monica McGoldrick, et al, Eds.)  . She co-edited a book, Understanding Power: An Imperative for Human Services with Elaine Pinderhughes, MSW and Patricia Romney, Ph.D. on power in clinical and community settings. Ms. Jackson’s passion is supporting activists in creating healthy and balanced lives. She offers an Activists Assistance Program to provide politically conscious and clinically sound counseling and healing workshops to Atlanta-area feminist/queer/social justice non-profit organizations.

Saturday, October 20, 2018
9:00am to 4:00pm
Registration- Events Calendar

Schedule
Saturday, October 20, 2018
8:30 am- Registration Opens
9:00am- Conference Begins
12:00pm – 1:30pm Lunch Break
1:30pm – 4:00pm Afternoon Session

Early pricing ends October 1st!
WSSCSW General Members: $125/$155
WSSCSW Associate Members: $50/$80
Students: $25
Non-Members: $150/$180
SU Social Work Students: Free (contact SU SW office for registration code)

CEU’s Offered, included in the price: 5.0

Meeting Location
Seattle University- Campion Ballroom (Campion Residence Hall)
914 E. Jefferson St.
Seattle  98122

Questions: PD@wsscsw.org

* The upcoming PSYCLIN 571 course for Fall 2018 will provide students with an in-depth, hands-on introduction to evidence-based, parenting interventions for use with children and families. The course will use the Helping the Noncompliant Child textbook to provide a solid foundation in evidence-based parenting approaches such as Parent-Child Interaction Therapy and The Incredible Years.  Students will learn the fundamentals of how to assess and treat behavioral problems in children and work with parents.  The course will also focus on adaptations to match client presentation, ethnicity, culture, socioeconomic status, and treatment setting. This course will include an integration of theory and practice.  A significant part of the course will involve opportunities for practice (e.g., role-plays, modeling in the classroom in a fun and supportive atmosphere. Practicing skills as homework will also be encouraged.  A goal of the class is for students to achieve competency on a subset of the skills via in-class skills demonstrations, and feedback from both the instructor and students will be given.  Still have questions or want an add code? Please contact the course instructor, Won-Fong Lau Johnson at fongj8@uw.edu. *

PsyCln 571A (3 credits)

Thursdays, 2-4:50pm

Offered C/NC (which is fine for MSW students for electives.)

I’m reaching out because we are currently seeking to hire a student Career Development Office Assistant in the Evans School of Public Policy & Governance Career Development office. This is a work-study position that would last for the 2018-2019 academic year—open to both graduate and undergraduate students. I would appreciate it if you could forward this announcement along to your network and any interested students! While the position will primarily be database and email management, it’s a great opportunity for any student interested in learning more about public sector careers and job search. The student would be working very closely with career development and student services staff, and regularly communicating with employers in the public sector, so it’s a great networking opportunity. There is also potential for project work that may align with a students’ interests and skills.

Please feel free to reach out with questions and to pass this information along to interested students! Students can apply by emailing their resume and cover letters to me at smerch15@uw.edu.

2018 Career Development Office Assistant

SAVE THE DATE!

ART MARKET & AUCTION

November 29^th, 2018

The School of Social Work Auction team is back and looking forward to raising funds for Student Scholarships!

If you are interested in helping the Auction Team with this fun event, please join us at our first planning meeting, Wednesday, Oct. 3rd, 1pm – SSW Gallery (1^st floor).

Start pledging your donations now:

* gifts of your fabulous art and craft work

* incredible services (doggy care, fishing trips, kayak lessons, gardening, painting, house cleaning, guided hikes…)

* private catered dinners or delivery of scrumptious goodies to the highest bidder

* a stay in your vacation hide-a-way or a day on your boat

* anything you can imagine to help raise $$ for our students

WE NEED LOTS and LOTS of GOODIES for all of us to bid on.

 

Send details NOW via our google form– send questions to Jenn Maglalang (jennmag@uw.edu).

The University of Washington School of Law is pleased to offer the “Professional Mediation Skills Training” program that will take place October 5, 6, 7 & 13-14, 2018 in William H. Gates Hall, Seattle campus.

On Friday, October 5, 2018 the program will take place from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.  On both weekends, October 6,7,13 and 14, 2018 the training will be from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. each day.

 The basic skills training course will locate mediation among the array of dispute resolution processes, and examine the differences between facilitative and evaluative mediation.  Participants will learn a step-by-step process to assist parties in conflict to find mutually agreeable solutions.

 For more information, to download the brochure and to register online please visit: https://cvent.me/x0Pzm

My name is Ellie Qian and I am a Research Coordinator at the Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences. I am writing to see if we could get your help with recruiting students for Psych 571 Fall Course on Parenting Interventions. No one has registered so far, so if you could spread the message to your department as well as students who might be interested, we would really appreciate it! I’ve had the instructor, Dr. Won-Fong Lau Johnson, prepare a description of the class below. It is open to all disciplines, but they do need to email Dr. Johnson directly for registration approval and an add code.

* The upcoming PSYCLIN 571 course for Fall 2018 will provide students with an in-depth, hands-on introduction to evidence-based, parenting interventions for use with children and families. The course will use the Helping the Noncompliant Child textbook to provide a solid foundation in evidence-based parenting approaches such as Parent-Child Interaction Therapy and The Incredible Years.  Students will learn the fundamentals of how to assess and treat behavioral problems in children and work with parents.  The course will also focus on adaptations to match client presentation, ethnicity, culture, socioeconomic status, and treatment setting. This course will include an integration of theory and practice.  A significant part of the course will involve opportunities for practice (e.g., role-plays, modeling in the classroom in a fun and supportive atmosphere. Practicing skills as homework will also be encouraged.  A goal of the class is for students to achieve competency on a subset of the skills via in-class skills demonstrations, and feedback from both the instructor and students will be given.  Still have questions? Please contact the course instructor, Won-Fong Lau Johnson at fongj8@uw.edu. *

PEER SUPPORT TRAINING INVITE 

Please join us September 21-23, for 3 days of experiential learning. The training will be held in beatiful downtown Seattle, hosted by the Wounded Warrior Project.

Our training was developed by veterans and mental health professionals, and is designed for veterans, civilians, businesses and organizations committed to the wellness of veterans. The training has been accredidted by the Washington Mental Health Couselors Association and is eligible for 20’5 CEU’s.

Learning objectives include recognizing and understanding the symptoms, causes and cycles of stress and PTSD, and facilitating healthy conversations and outcomes by the use of nationally recognized best practices in Peer Support.

Many veterans avoid seeking help for life challenges, effective informal peer support can be the difference between sickness and health, even life and death.

Come learn how to make a difference for veterans in your community.

Help Spread the Word

Please share this opportunity with individuals and organizations that would benefit from this Peer Support training

Register Here

Thank You Bob Woodruff Foundation

Our Peer Support Training is made possible through generous support from the Bob Woodruff Foundation

Questions? Contact Scotty Irwin at  irwin@GrowingVeterans.org

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