Northwest Teaching for Social Justice Conference, the annual gathering of conversation, idea-sharing, and inspiration.

Saturday, October 17th online. The cost is $5 for students.
Register Here
https://nwtsj.org/wp/register/

Keynote talk this year — by Chenjerai Kumanyika and Demetrius Noble — is Revolutionary Public Education at the Crossroads of Race, Class, and COVID. Kumanyika teaches at Rutgers University, and is the co-executive producer and co-host of “Uncivil,” Gimlet Media’s Peabody Award-winning podcast on the Civil War. He also is a collaborator on Scene on Radio’s “Seeing White” podcast. Demetrius Noble is a radical cultural worker and scholar-activist. He is a professor in the African American & Diaspora Studies department at University of North Carolina Greensboro.

HSERV 552 Health Policy Development

SLN 16178, MW 10-11:20, 3 credits

If you’ve ever wondered how health policies are developed and adopted and about the role you can play in the policy arena, you can learn more in HSERV 552, Health Policy Development!

No matter what you do in your future career, policy will somehow touch your work. Health policy is pervasive – it touches transportation and workers’ rights, immigration and health equity, and healthy food access and agricultural practices. Policies offer the opportunity to improve health and improve health equity for the whole community by reaching many people. You will get the tools to understand who makes different types of policies and how, where they come from them and how to better influence them.

Explore about what policies are, agenda-setting, developing policy options, strategic communications, and policy adoption and advocacy, implementation and evaluation. Throughout the course, we will use real-life examples, feature various guest speakers doing this work in practice, and share examples from our own work as practitioners in the health care and public health policy fields.

For questions about the course, reach out to the instructor Molly Firth: mfirth@uw.edu.  If you’re interested in enrolling, please email hservmph@uw.edu for an add code.

JSIS A 504 Survey of Eurasia
SLN: 16846

This course provides an intellectual foundation for interdisciplinary study of Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia. Once part of a single political space, the region is now fragmented in many ways, yet legacies of the distant and more recent past remain. This course brings in a rotating cast of faculty from different scholarly disciplines to present on themes that define and unify the region. It is open to MA, PhD, and advanced undergraduate students interested in doing research on Eurasia.

For more information, please contact Dr. Scott Radnitz at srad@uw.edu.

Health Sciences students now have the option to engage in one or both of the two ways we are involved with clinics:

(1) Remote Support: students are paired with providers to support their patients by calling them in advance of telehealth visits and help them navigate set-up.

***All Health Sciences students are cleared to participate.   If you do not already have Epic access, we can grant you permissions for your work on this project.  It is also necessary to have HIPAA-compliant Zoom

(2) In-Person Support (New!): students set up a telehealth support kiosk in a clinic lobby to provide help with installation of software and use of telehealth-compatible devices.

***UW health science students who are cleared for IN-PERSON service learning (SOM, SON, SOP, MEDEX) may sign-up to participate! No access to Epic needed.

If you are interested, please leave your information at this wejoinin and they will get back to you with next steps: https://www.wejoinin.com/sheets/zolib

Please feel free to email Chris (chrisjy@uw.edu) with any questions.

JSIS 535: Technology, Society and the Future
TuTh 8:30-10:20am
Instructors: James Bernard and Scott Edwards
5 credits, Autumn 2020
SLN 24003

This course explores the intersection of policy, technology and society. Technology is rapidly changing the way that humans interact with one another, markets are formed, and information is stored, shared and utilized. While technology has held and does hold great promise for being a force for both economic and social change, it also has the potential to be used in ways that threaten civil liberties, national security and data sovereignty. Private sector and civil society actors, government and military leaders, and regulators must work together to understand how new and emerging technologies will drive change across a wide range of sectors, and they must develop policies to ensure that technology is used to help improve and enrich the lives of those across the socioeconomic spectrum.

Work alongside your health science colleagues to serve the needs of our local communities.

The Health Sciences Mobile Health and Outreach Van is a pilot program that works to address critical gaps in health access, and partners with local organizations such as University District Street Medicine, Georgetown Tiny House Village, and others to provide basic preventive health and street medicine services for people experiencing homelessness, housing insecurity and other barriers to accessing healthcare. In addition, the project provides interprofessional learning opportunities for health sciences students to engage with professionals and students from other disciplines, and to connect what they are learning in the classroom to a community setting.

Service learning and community engagement are ideal mechanisms for growing teamwork skills, while connecting classroom learning with real life experiences.  Students from across the health sciences are invited to demonstrate community caring through participation in programs such as The UW Listening Project and the Mobile Health and Outreach Program. We also work closely with the UW School of Medicine (SOM) Service Learning Program. For additional opportunities to work in interprofessional teams, while serving the needs of our local communities, please visit the SOM Service Learning Website.

The Team-Based SUD Training Program is an online, interprofessional training course that will take place over the three quarters of the 2020–21 academic year. Participants will learn skills and knowledge related to a healthcare team-oriented, non-stigmatizing approach to screening, assessment, and treatment of substance use disorders during three sessions.

Register Here
https://collaborate.uw.edu/student-portal/team-based-sud/

The SAMHSA-funded program was developed as a collaboration between the Harborview Addiction Medicine program and CHSIE. It is designed for students from across health professions, including medicine, nursing, social work, public health, pharmacy, dentistry, physical therapy, occupational therapy, physician assistant, speech and language pathology, and nutrition/dietetics.

The anticipated time commitment for this program is about five hours per quarter. The cohort will meet approximately one time per quarter in a required large group Zoom session, and one other time in small teams.  Below are times/dates for large group sessions that participants must attend. Small teams will arrange their own meeting times based on student availability.

Program Orientation
Monday, October 19, 2020, 5:30-7:30 pm on Zoom

Session 1: Substance Use Disorder Screening
Monday, November 16, 2020, 5:30-7:30 pm on Zoom

Session 2: Substance Use Disorder Assessment
Monday, January 25, 2021, 5:30-7:30 pm on Zoom

Session 3: Substance Use Disorder Treatment
Monday, April 19, 2021, 5:30-7:30 pm on Zoom

Learn about the impacts of military service and culture, the unique care needs of the Veteran population, and about the roles and responsibilities of various providers in caring for Veterans.

Register Here
https://collaborate.uw.edu/student-portal/ipals/

The Interprofessional Active Learning Series (iPALS) is a curricular IPE offering that provides opportunities for students to learn and practice the core competencies of collaborative practice. Through the use of clinical cases, examples of system-level interventions, tools for ethical decision-making, and skills for community advocacy, students are provided the opportunity to meet and work alongside future colleagues from across 12 health profession training programs.

Develop skills for working together as an interprofessional care team to provide safe, welcoming and high quality care to LGTBQ+ patients.

Register Here
https://collaborate.uw.edu/student-portal/ipals/

The Interprofessional Active Learning Series (iPALS) is a curricular IPE offering that provides opportunities for students to learn and practice the core competencies of collaborative practice. Through the use of clinical cases, examples of system-level interventions, tools for ethical decision-making, and skills for community advocacy, students are provided the opportunity to meet and work alongside future colleagues from across 12 health profession training programs.

Foundations for Interprofessional Practice is a three-part year-long sequence that introduces pre-licensure health sciences students to the competencies needed to practice in an interprofessional team. The series involves over 500 students from dentistry, dietetics, health administration, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, social work, and the MEDEX physician assistant program. Participation in the Foundations series is required for some students, as is determined by program. If you are not required to attend Foundations, but the sessions outlined below sound interesting to you, please contact Rachel Lazzar to inquire about the possibility of participating: rlazzar@uw.edu.

FOR THE EVENT
Engaging Differing Perspectives on Health: The Case of Inpatient “Doris”
October 26, 2020, 3:30–5:20 pm
“Doris” is an elderly woman hospitalized with congestive heart failure who does not accept many of the recommendations made for her care.  Her ongoing refusals create conflict amongst team members, who hold different perspectives on how best to care for her. This case-based session is an opportunity for students to experience tension within their teams, and to practice engaging constructively when there is inter-professional conflict.

Undergraduate Research Program is hiring! They are seeking a Program Development Intern (paid) to support URP’s mission and work with undergraduates engaged in research for 2020-21 academic year.

Program Development Intern: https://uw.joinhandshake.com/jobs/3975698/edit?initial_page=4

Please find attached our School’s OFFER Newsletter. You will find information on research related topics, including SSW community recent publications, funding opportunities, upcoming events of interest, training opportunities and more.

UW SSW Research Newsletter_Issue_09.08.20

The King County Mobility Coalition is preparing to apply for a pretty cool grant. As part of the grant application, it is seeking both individuals and community partners to engage in some qualitative storytelling related to the impacts of COVID-19.  Participants will be paid for their participation. Please see below for more information. If you identify with or support the communities they are looking for, I encourage you to get more information. If interested please contact Cassidy Giampetro cgiampetro@hopelink.org 

The King County Mobility Coalition is looking to submit an application for the Communities of Opportunity grant funding, Learning from Community Stories: the Impact of COVID-19. This opportunity seeks to tell the stories of communities disproportionately impacted by COVID-19 through qualitative and quantitative methods, and then develop distribution materials or deliverables to share these stories. The grant is looking for applicants that will use a participatory approach to community engagement, working alongside communities to elevate stories and gain data. We think this is a great extension of our Inclusive Planning efforts, bringing this lens of community-lead partnerships to assess and address needs into the COVID-19 space.

 The research question the KCMC is currently planning around is: how have changes in mobility programs and transit due to COVID-19 helped or hurt access to services for immigrants and refugees? Our intention would also be to intentionally reach elder immigrant and refugee and immigrant and refugee with disabilities populations.

The application for this grant is due very soon, on September 21^st. If awarded, the grant would span from November 2020 to December 2021.

Are you a first year, sophomore, junior, senior, grad student or ACCESS student looking for a great 2 credit C/NC course this Autumn? Check out:

Lessons (not learned) from the Holocaust (JEW ST 289B)
2 credits I&S, C/NC; Tuesdays, 4:30 pm

Examine the history and context surrounding the Holocaust, and the factors that made (and continue to make) atrocities of this magnitude possible, in this remotely offered lecture course. Lectures are 35 minutes long, followed by Q&A.

Email Prof Ahuvia at mahuvia@uw.edu with any questions.

Please find attached our School’s OFFER Newsletter. You will find information on research related topics, including SSW community recent publications, funding opportunities, upcoming events of interest, training opportunities and more.

UW SSW Research Newsletter_Issue_09.01.20

NASW Board Application NLIC 2019

2019 Position Description

My name is Michelle Landrum and I was last year’s MSW Student Representative for the Washington Chapter of NASW. I am reaching out to you because the chapter needs MSW and BSW student representatives.

I thoroughly enjoyed my time as the MSW Student Representative due to four main aspects.

1. I served time on a board and my professors had expressed the invaluable experience of being on a board.
2. I learned a great deal about how the Washington chapter of NASW works and how to get more involved.
3. My voice and input was valued and sought after by board members and other members.
4. Networking and being around magnificent, inspiring and very humble social workers all over the state with varied expertise.

If you are interested in being a representative and are currently an MSW or BSW student, please email Emily.tillotson@wallawalla.edu.

UWHR is seeking a DEI Intern to work collaboratively with the Diversity Recruiter for the 2020-2021 Fall, Winter, and Spring Quarters. The intern will be a part of a one year project to create a roadmap for a multi-year plan within UWHR to become an antiracist organization as measured by a review and shift in practices, policies, and procedures that have a local and institutional impact.

To Apply: Applicants should apply via Handshake and include a cover letter highlighting why you are interested in this internship and some specific things you want to do in the next year to further your development in diversity, equity, and inclusion work?

All applications received before or by September 11th, 2020 will be reviewed and considered.

If you have any additional questions, please contact Ebonee Anderson, Diversity Recruiter via eboneea@uw.edu

Our moderator will be Cody West, KCRC Advisory Board and Peer Seattle Program Director. We will have a panel of recovery coaching and peer services experts, including Jim Leingang and Rod Rushing, core trainers for CCAR’s Recovery Coach Academy and Neil Hilton of Familiar Faces in Olympia.

Register here: KCRC Presents September 2020

Join members of our coalition for a Zoom meeting where we connect, celebrate recovery, discuss upcoming projects and work together collectively to advocate for behavioral health services and policy, to raise awareness and reduce stigma, and more!. For additional info on what you can expect at one of our coalition meetings, go to…

Register here: Coalition Meeting

Team-Based Substance Use Disorder Training Program (Screening, Assessment, and Treatment.)

This program is an online, interprofessional training course that will take place over the three quarters of the 2020-21 academic year, and is geared toward graduate health sciences and BSN/ABSN students. Students from any UW campus in the WWAMI region are encouraged to apply! Participants will learn skills and knowledge related to a healthcare team-oriented, non-stigmatizing approach to screening, assessment, and treatment of substance use disorders. Students will be expected to attend one online orientation and three (quarterly) online sessions. More information in attached flyer

At the conclusion of the course learners will be able to…  

1) use at least one evidence-based screening tool to identify individuals with substance use disorders,

2) accurately assess for and introduce treatment options for individuals with substance use disorders,

3) utilize a non-stigmatizing approach when working with individuals who have substance use disorders, including appropriate terminology and harm reduction strategies,

4) apply principles of team collaboration, including recognition of unique professional roles, to effectively provide high quality patient-centered care for individuals who have substance use disorder.

To learn more specifics and to access the brief registration form on Catalyst, please visit: https://tinyurl.com/SUD2020

If you have any questions, please contact Rachel Lazzar – rlazzar@uw.edu

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