We have seats open in NUTR 512 United States Food Systems Policy taught by Jennifer Otten in WIN 2019. The course meets T Th, 1:00 – 2:20 in THO 125.

This course offers a broad introduction to food and nutrition policies in the United States and their impacts on population health. Real-world controversies and debates are used to illustrate policy principles, research tools, and policy analysis. It is taught with an undergraduate section, NUTR 412.

It is open to students from the following schools / colleges: Built Environment, Environment, Public Health, and Public Policy & Governance. Any others with interest may contact Susan Inman (206-685-9435) for access.

Sign up today for the Winter quarter Bodemer Interprofessional Ethics Lab!

We invite students in the healthcare professions (e.g., MSW, MPH, MD, DDS, PharmD, BSN, DNP, PT/OT/SLP) to join the Department of Bioethics & Humanities and the Center for Health Sciences Interprofessional Education, Research & Practice for dinner and an evening of connecting with colleagues and engaging in ethical dilemmas!

In this interprofessional ethics lab, we will focus on applying some key approaches of clinical ethics to cases in which patients refuse recommendations by their healthcare team. We will consider the influence of factors such as patient decisional capacity, cultural/religious beliefs, patient preferences, and trust in the healthcare system. Ethics Consultants and clinicians from UW Medical Center and Harborview Medical Center will help guide small group discussion using some of the language, principles, and tools that guide bioethicists.

Learning Objectives

• Learn about principles of ethics and how they can be used to analyze a case of ethical conflict or uncertainty.
• Work as a collaborative team to apply ethics analysis tools to the healthcare decision-making process.

When: Tuesday January 8, 2019, 6:00-8:00pm (food available at 5:30pm!)

Where: UW South Campus Center, Room 316

Please register by January 1, 2019 using this link:  https://tinyurl.com/IPethics

Space is limited and registration link will close when capacity is reached.

Questions? Contact: rlazzar@uw.edu

Volunteer Registration Now Open for Count Us In 2019

All Home is now seeking volunteers for Count Us In 2019, our annual Point in Time (PIT) Count of people experiencing homelessness. The count will take place in the early hours of the morning of January 25, 2019 from 2am-6am. The core purpose of our annual Point in Time (PIT) Count is to collect data on the needs of people experiencing homelessness in our community. The count also provides an excellent opportunity to increase awareness of homelessness and to spark action. A successful and accurate PIT Count is an essential component to informing our system response to the need in our community and to ultimately making homelessness rare, brief and one-time.

Register here

Hunger’s Response to Homelessness

The Seattle Food Committee’s Hunger’s Response to Homeless event is open for all individuals interested in learning how hunger response agencies can collaborate to address homelessness in Seattle and King County.

Register here

Job Opportunities

Neighborhood House
Teacher
Community Health Associate II – Navos

Space is still available in EDPSY 528, Achievement Motivation in Education with Matthew Kim. Please see the attached flyer for details.

EDPSY 528 Flyer WIN 19

We are seeking student representatives for the Health Sciences Service Learning and Advocacy Committee (HSSLA).  This committee is associated with CHSIE (Center for Health Sciences Interprofessional Education) and it provides guidance and support for interprofessional community engagement projects like the Common Book Series, the Seattle King County Clinic Listening Project, etc.  HSSLA is currently attended by interested faculty from the UW health sciences schools and we are seeking student input and involvement.

Please take advantage of this wonderful opportunity to learn more about the world of service learning and advocacy!  Information on how to apply is attached and copied below.  If you have questions, please contact Leonora Clarke, clarkel@uw.edu.

HSSLA Student Representative Application:

The Health Sciences Service Learning and Advocacy Committee (HSSLA) has openings for student representatives from the six health sciences schools (Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Dentistry, Social Work, Public Health, (as well as PT/OT and MEDEX), .  Students will be selected for a one-year term.  We are looking for one student representative for each school. Applications are due December 5th!

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The Graduate School is pleased to announce a new course for the Winter quarter entitled:

“Breaching Borders: Intersectional pathways towards equity and justice”

We invite graduate students, faculty, and staff from all disciplines to participate in this interdisciplinary course which seeks to engage and breach the boundaries between our various intersecting identities, and how these identities interact across issues of equity and social justice. Inspired by Gloria Anzaldúa’s concept of “borderlands”, we introduce the concept of “breaching” to invite participants to engage with, resist, and transgress across these invisible lines that have been constructed to divide us (e.g. gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, language, ability, mental health, and nation/states). The course will work as a collaborative space to explore the meaning of such identities in our lives and society, and strategize for fostering intersectional pathways towards equity and justice.

Please see the attached flyer for more information, and distribute widely across your department/unit.

You may email Saejin Kwak Tanguay (sjk119@uw.edu) with any questions.

Winter 2019 Course Flyer

Amidst the joys and challenges of your studies, along with those of our nation and the world, may we each take a moment to note we again have the opportunity to celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.  This coming January 17^th 2019, our annual tribute acknowledges academic community members who are engaged in community service and volunteerism.  We are now seeking nominations for the 2019 Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Volunteer Recognition Award for the School of Social Work.  Our question to you: Who among us should be noted for their work’s continuing the legacy of Dr. King?  Won’t you take a moment to nominate that person or program?

With our Health Sciences Center colleagues, we will recognize awardees at this two-part commemoration that honors individuals or groups who exemplify this national holiday’s principles through their:

• Commitment to addressing community needs, particularly communities of color and those who are marginalized
• Development and implementation of significant programs to improve the human condition
• Outstanding efforts to protect and empower all people.

Please nominate a school of social work student, staff, faculty member or group!

• Describe the good work that person or group has done;
• The ways it matches the above criteria of the award;
• Please submit a brief letter (or email) of support for your nomination(s) to this sender, Khalfani Mwamba, mwambk@uw.edu, no later than Friday, December 07^th at 0500p.m.

We so appreciate your help in identifying these deserving persons!  Don’t delay, nominate today!

         Past awardees:

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PUBPOL 569 A: Race & Public Policy (SLN 19560)

Instructor: Laura Evans, PhD

Meets: Tuesdays, 2:30pm – 5:20pm

This course analyzes racial disparities in social, economic, and political outcomes. In the course, students will examine the ongoing consequences of historical and institutional racism; evaluate contemporary racial attitudes and their consequences for policy and management; and consider the policy and management alternatives to reduce racial bias and race‐based disparities.

PUBPOL 570 A: Foundations of Social Policy (SLN 19561)

Instructor: Bill Zumeta, PhD

Meets: Mondays & Wednesdays, 4:00pm – 5:20pm

This course is an introduction and overview of the broad field of social policy primarily within the U.S. The course will provide an overview of structural factors affecting the nature and evolution of social policies in the U.S. as well as some coverage of recent developments in demography, inequality and politics that are affecting social policy issues and policymaking today. We will consider the role of policy analysis tools and instruments in the social policy sphere and offer at least an overview of American approaches in the various specific policy areas that fall under the broad umbrella of social policy including: income transfer and antipoverty policies; policies relating to families and social services; health, housing and criminal justice policies (these three will be touched upon fairly briefly); and education policies from early childhood through postsecondary education.

PUBPOL 598 C: Citizen Behavior Change for Social Good: The Social Marketing Approach (SLN 19569)
Instructor: Nancy Lee

Meets: Wednesdays, January 9, 16, 30, February 6 from 10:30am – 12:50pm

This 1-credit course provides an in-depth and hands-on introduction to Social Marketing, a proven citizen behavior change discipline first distinguished in the early 1970s. It has had a profound impact on influencing citizen behaviors for social good, ones that:

• Improve public health: Tobacco, HIV/AIDS, Obesity, Immunizations, Physical Activity
• Prevent injuries: Traffic and Pedestrian Safety, Workplace Safety, Drowning Prevention
• Protect the environment: Water Quality, Water Conservation, Air Quality, Alternative Transportation, Energy Conservation, Waste Management, Fish and Wildlife Habitats, Stormwater Runoff
• Contribute to communities: Blood Donation, Crime Prevention, Literacy, Voting, Homelessness
• Enhancing financial well-being: Retirement savings, College funding, Checking accounts for the poor.

It should be noted that Social Marketing is not the same as Social Media, which is only one tactic in the Social Marketer’s toolbox for behavior change for social good.

PUBPOL 599 E: Advanced Program Evaluation (SLN 19575)

Instructor: Carlos Cuevas, PhD

Meets: Thursdays, 2:30pm – 5:20pm

This course aims at preparing students to address performance monitoring and evaluation of programs they find already in progress when they enter professional practice, as well as familiarizing them with advanced topics in program design and evaluation. It does have a strong emphasis on implementation/process evaluation since this area of evaluation work seems dominant in professional practice. Students will have taken PUBPOL 526 Program Evaluation, and ideally advanced multivariate analysis. Please contact the instructor at cecuevas@uw.edu if you have questions regarding prerequisite requirements.

There are 5 spaces open in JSIS 578 A: Cross-Cultural Religious Literacy with Chris Seiple. This course meets on Mondays in winter 2019 from 11:30a-1:20p.

Finding solutions to global challenges demands different perspectives, as well as partnerships among individuals and institutions who do not share the same values. How does one build unity without uniformity across sectors—each of which possess believers and faith-based actors—in order to effectively lead in complicated times? Through theory, case study and the practical experience of both the instructor and the students, this course understands and wrestles with the role of religion in context—at least as an underexamined analytic factor, and perhaps even as tremendous force for the common good – and seeks to teach the skill sets of evaluation (self & contextual), communication, and negotiation as a means to mutual literacy and respect across cultures and countries.

I wanted to let you know about two Post-Masters Social Work Fellow positions at Counseling and Psychiatric Services (CAPS) at the University of Colorado, Boulder.  The positions start on August 5, 2019.  The job description can be found at https://colorado.avature.net/jobs/JobDetail?jobId=14492.  The application deadline is December 16, 2018.

The NCORE Student Scholarship supports a paid conference registration for each student recipient. Both undergraduate and graduate students are eligible. It is hoped that the scholarship awards will serve as an incentive for higher education institutions to support student participation in the conference.

Key Requirements:

• Submission Opens: October 24th, 2018
• Submission Deadline: December 17th, 2018
• Student Scholarship Recipient Notified: January 8th, 2019
• Student Scholars Must Accept No Later Than: January 31st, 2019

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To all students interested in health equity and social justice:

• Do you see things in the communities you work with and/or are a part of that you wish were different?
• Do you want to help change the systems that produce health disparities?
• Are you ready to take action?

Join experienced Sound Alliance community organizers and students from across the Health Sciences this fall in UCONJ 624. We will develop your skills in advocacy and community organizing for health equity. Participate in different campaigns that work upstream to address the social determinants of health.

• Learn the fundamentals of advocacy, organizing, and their ability to impact health.
• Apply skills, gain confidence, & collaborate around a community-driven goal.
• Work with local leaders to engage in community driven listening campaigns.
• Address the social & structural injustices that contribute to & perpetuate health disparities.

Course details:

• UCONJ 624
• Winter quarter 2019
• Thursdays 5:30-7:20pm
• Classroom: TBD

Contact Leonora Clarke at clarkel@uw.ed for an add code or with questions! 

RSVP: bit.ly/uwlgbtq

FB Event: here

(RSVP not required. But if you are comfortable please do to help us with planning)

Join your fellow Graduate and Professional Queers for “a night of well-mannered frivolity!” Multiple graduate and professional programs across UW have been collaborating to put this event on for YOU!

UW Grad/Professional Student Mixer

Friday, Nov 30 @ 6:30PM

Capitol Cider 

Come meet new friends you otherwise would not have the chance to meet around UW!

**FOOD IS PROVIDED!**

A huge thank you to our sponsors: Out In Business, Out In Public, Outlaws, Nursing LGBTQ, QMED, and Social Work QT Group!

21+ to enter, valid government-issued ID required.

RSVP: bit.ly/uwlgbtq

FB Event: here

Here’s an offer of cash prizes for winning clinical papers based on field-placement experiences of your social work graduate students! We offer prizes to first year grad students (Osman Prize) and final year grad students (Holm Prize), a total of $4500 in scholarship money! We are EPICC Social Work and we need your help in getting this message through to your grad students. EPICC Social Work is a national online community of students and entry-level professionals in clinical social work. We are sponsored by the not-for-profit Center for Clinical Social Work, which has been offering clinical-paper scholarships for twenty years. Please contact me, Ariana Tagliamonte MSW at atagliamonte@abecsw.org Check out our website at epiccsocialwork.org Scholarship paper guidelines can be found at epiccsocialwork.org/education/scholarships The winning submissions for the 2018 Holm Prize can be found at epiccsocialwork.org/education/clinical-journal Thank you for your time!

Here’s an offer of cash prizes for winning clinical papers based on field-placement experiences of your social work graduate students!

We offer prizes to first year grad students (Osman Prize) and final year grad students (Holm Prize), a total of

$4500 in scholarship money!

We are EPICC Social Work and we need your help in getting this message through to your grad students.

EPICC Social Work is a national online community of students and entry-level professionals in clinical social work. We are sponsored by the not-for-profit Center for Clinical Social Work, which has been offering clinical-paper scholarships for twenty years.

Please contact me, Ariana Tagliamonte MSW at
atagliamonte@abecsw.org

Check out our website at epiccsocialwork.org

Scholarship paper guidelines can be found at epiccsocialwork.org/education/scholarships

The winning submissions for the 2018 Holm Prize can be found at
epiccsocialwork.org/education/clinical-journal

Thank you for your time!

For students who are trans, nonbinary, or questioning and interested in attending trans open office hours this academic year, please complete this interest form!

https://goo.gl/forms/3YMsCClL5dkEXUdj1

T-Time is a 1-2 hour drop in space I host 1-3 times per quarter where we can chat, co-work, etc. It is hosted in the semi-private PhD student offices and their is an expectation of confidentiality around who is in attendance.

This course will be open to all graduate students in Period II registration, beginning on Monday, November 19, with no add codes needed.

COM 597 D: Special Topics – Family Communication, Kristina Scharp, TTh 10:30-12:20, 5 credits

All families are discourse dependent. This means that every family requires communication to create a shared family identity. Yet, some families are more discourse dependent than others. When families lack blood or legal ties and/or deviate from cultural expectations, they require more communication to construct what it means to be a family both for themselves and to people outside of the family. In this course, we will not only explore the central theories and major processes that serve as the foundation for family communication, but also interrogate the ideologies that render certain families as more discourse dependent than others. Consequently, we will focus on the three “R’s” of (post-nuclear) family theorizing: remaking, resistance, and resilience. In doing so, we attend to the ways post-nuclear families are marginalized and stigmatized – both in public policy and in hearts and minds.

Below are some topics we will cover in this course:
Central Theories
·      Communication Privacy Management Theory
·      Family Communication Patterns
·      Intersectionality
·      Relational Dialectics Theory
Major Processes
·      Conflict and Divorce
·      Estrangement and Marginalization
·      Supportive Communication
·      Uncertainty Management
Discourse Dependent Families
·      Adoption and Foster Care
·      Arranged Marriage and the Diaspora
·      Infertility, Miscarriage, and Childfree Couples
·      Language Brokering

For questions, please feel free to contact Dr. Scharp at kscharp@uw.edu.

Position Announcement: U501 WordPress page creator

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As the U501 Wordpress page creator, you will organize existing project documents in google drive and transfer them into WordPress to make a how-to toolkit. You will also upload existing U501 videos into Microsoft Stream.

U501 “flips” orientation so graduate students view online modules in Canvas containing text and videos with students, faculty and staff introducing key information before they arrive on campus. For its development of U501, the UW Graduate School won ETS/CGS’ 2017 Award for Innovation in Promoting Success in Graduate Education, which includes a $20,000 grant. As U501 has been so successful that peer institutions have reached out for tips on how to develop their own online orientations, we will use a portion of this grant to create this toolkit for other institutions making their own orientations. We are calling this next phase “U501: Beyond UW.”  This hourly student U501 WordPress creator position works collaboratively with the U501 project team and works independently. Please note that this is not a Graduate Staff Assistantship, and therefore is not eligible for a tuition waiver or health benefits.

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For those students unable to attend the presentation on 11/6, here’s a link to the recording:

Below is a link to the presentation by Common Book author, Ellen Forney that took place last Tuesday evening.  The introduction was done by MS3 Andy Wen.

https://mediasite.hs.washington.edu/Mediasite/Play/999ae104d7114b738c9db4194c3fecc21d

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