Are you looking for a paid opportunity serving the community during the Summer? Our United Way of King County AmeriCorps team is looking for Summer 2022 HungerCorps Associates to serve from June 13th to August 21st.

Your Role and What You Will Learn:

HungerCorps members serve in partnership with food banks, nonprofits, and city governments to ensure that every family in our community has access to healthy food. As a HungerCorps VISTA with United Way of King County, you will be assigned to a food bank or meals site, where you’ll use your skills and experience to support critical anti-hunger work. You will prepare and serve meals, pack boxes of food, engage with community members, & conduct grassroots community outreach to get the word out about available resources. You can expect to prepare meals or food boxes; distribute meals or groceries at apartment complexes, parks, community centers or food banks; manage meal distribution logistics, including maintaining federal program requirements; and build relationships with families and collect client feedback. You will gain experience working directly with the community. Training will be provided in site management, marketing, and data tracking – hard skills that will make your summer work influential on your resume. Service placements include Seattle, Tukwila, Renton, Auburn, East King County, Kent, and Federal Way. This is a paid, full-time position.

Apply by May 15th here!

Issue No. 117                                                                                April 26, 2022

Highlighted News and Announcements

Funding Opportunity for SSW Researchers
Public Interest Technology Network Challenge
UW Internal deadline: April 29, 2022
Announcing an excellent opportunity for SSW researchers! Public Interest Technology Network (PIT UN) universities are trying innovative tactics to produce graduates with multiple fluencies at the intersection of technology and policy. For its fourth year, projects are encouraged in the following priority areas: Educational Offerings, Career Pipeline/Placement, Faculty & Institution Building, and Strengthening the PIT University Network. UW will put forward 3 proposals; to be considered, submit a 1-page letter of intent with a description of proposed objectives, work plan, impact, timeline, list of collaborators, total amount requested and matching fund source(s) along with a CV (not NIH format) of the PI to welliver@uw.edu by 5:00pm Friday April 29.

Upcoming National Academy of Sciences Workshop
Structural Racism and Rigorous Models of Social Inequity
May 16, 2022, 7:00am-1:00pm
May 17, 2022, 6:00am-12:00pm
This workshop is designed to identify and discuss the sources and mechanisms through which structural racism operates. Invited experts will not only provide insights into known sources of structural racism and models of health equity, but also go beyond these to discuss novel sources and approaches. The workshop will help identify key research and data needs and priorities for future work on structural racism and health inequity. SSW Professor Michelle Johnson-Jennings will be a featured speaker at the workshop. Registration required.

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You are invited to join a webinar about the U.S. Presidential Management Fellowship program. This will be relevant for any students graduating this year or in 2023, who may be interested in employment with the federal government (in any agency, and any discipline!) The Evans School of Public Policy & Governance is coordinating this session, and is excited to invite graduate students from all programs at UW Seattle, UW Tacoma, and UW Bothell to join.

See more information about the PMF program, as well as the registration link to the Zoom session here and in the attached flyers: https://washington.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJApf-qupjotGNNzURTnopPNZPopZHLSgjA-

Ambulatory Sims Logistics:  Online, Dates/Times 

Wednesday 5/18/2022

• Session 1 8:00-10:00 AM
• Session 2 10:30AM-12:30 PM

Friday 5/20/2022

• Session 3 8:00-10:00 AM
• Session 4 10:30AM -12:30 PM

 Ambulatory (Outpatient, Clinic Settings) Simulation Description:

This highly interactive, interprofessional (SW, nursing, pharmacy, PT, dietetics), session will have participants learn effective team based communications specifically for the management of highly complex ambulatory patients. Students will have a chance to practice skills in a simulated “telehealth” environment with senior colleagues and expert facilitators.

Session Learning Objectives:

• Roles: (1) Communicate one’s own roles and responsibilities clearly to other team members; (2) Explain the roles and responsibilities of the other involved professions.
• Communication: (1) Share knowledge and opinions with other team members in an understandable way, avoiding profession-specific jargon; (2) Use closed loop communication appropriately for safe and effective team based care; (3) Convey critical information concisely using SBAR; (4) Elicit input from all team members.
• Teams & Teamwork: (1) Understand how psychological safety is established on a team; (2) Incorporate the knowledge and opinions of other team members into a patient care with curiosity, active listening, and respect; (3) Reflect on individual and team performance through debriefing.

 ** This is a free event

 

De-Escalation Sims Logistics: In person, Date/Time

5/19/2022

• Session 1 9:25-11:25 AM
• Session 2 12:15-2:15 PM

De-escalation Simulation Description:

De-escalation simulations train Clinical Social Work (MSW) students and senior Medical Students to work together in the clinical environment to de-escalate patient scenarios.  The focus will be on best practices of clinical de-escalation skills, and utilizing interprofessional team-based communications.  Students are required to complete preparatory modules for this simulation.  Simulations will be conducted with standardized patients (SPs) and volunteer student participants (you are not required to interact with the SP). Students not actively interacting with standardized patients in the simulations will still be active participants for interprofessional communication and feedback in small and large groups.  This is an in-person only session that will be located at the University of Washington Medical Center Montlake WISH Center

Objectives:

• Learn best practices for clinical de-escalation skills – prevention, situational awareness, physical safety training, psychological safety and self-management, self-awareness of about bias and stereotyping that occurs with perception of threat, when to involve safety officers.
• Learn and review best practices for interprofessional communication in high intensity environments – huddles, SBAR, debriefs.
• Practice de-escalation skills with standardized patients in pairs or triads
• Practice interprofessional communication skills in small groups

**This is a free event

 

For more information or to register for a specific session contact Charlotte Sanders, carlotat@uw.edu

UDSM is looking for volunteers to support the Seattle Health and Wellness Fair. This is a collaborative event that seeks to increase patient engagement and “improve engagement, one patient at a time”. For more information, click here.

Date: Saturday, May 14th 2022

Place: Sea Mar Cultural and Community Center (9635 Des Moines Memorial Dr. S Seattle, WA 98108)

Role Descriptions:

• CHILDCARE volunteers will be stationed inside. There will be a table and chairs with coloring supplies. If you love kids and can keep them corralled up and safe, this role is for you!
• PARKING ATTENDANT volunteers will work as a team to help keep parking lot traffic flowing smoothly. You should expect to be standing for your entire shift and should be prepared for it to rain on you. If you are calm and communicate well on teams, this role is for you!

For more information and sign-up here: https://www.wejoinin.com/sheets/rvfry

Please join for an intensive training experience on Somatics Clinical Practice!

Thursday May 5th, 1130a-215p

Room 026/030

**In-person seating is limited to first 40 students who register, but the event will be live-streamed, and a recording will be made available after the training.

Registration Link:

https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/sswstsrv/421223

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ABOUT HOPEWEST
Created through a community-wide vision, HopeWest has been providing comprehensive, expert, and collaborative care for those facing serious illness and grief since 1993.

HopeWest is a nonprofit organization that serves families across 10,000 square miles on the Western Slope in Mesa, Delta, Montrose & Ouray, and Rio Blanco counties. Our teams visit patients wherever they call home; home, nursing home, assisted living or other facility. Learn more about us @ www.HopeWestCO.org

HopeWest is recognized as a “Best Place to Work” & the “#4 Best Family-Friendly Workplace” in the Nation by Modern Health Care.

Our social workers are trained in both counseling and identifying practical and financial resources for patients and families. We will answer questions, facilitate family communication, and provide support to families in person and by phone.

These positions are located in our Delta & Montrose County offices.

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REHAB 566A: Disability and Health: Tensions, Intersections, and Future Opportunities (SLN: 14402)

Meets online, W 12:30-1:50, 1cr, CR/NC

Course instructors: Heather Feldner, PT, PhD, PCS; Silas James, MPA

Course Description

The goal for this online, one credit course is to use a disability studies framework to understand and interrogate disability and health within historical and contemporary healthcare practice and lay communities. Participants in this course will engage in critical analysis of multiple conceptualizations of disability and how tensions between various understandings of disability influence healthcare delivery, health professions education, and dominant social discourses of health and wellness. Systemic ableism and barriers to healthcare for disabled people will be addressed, and participants will consider future opportunities to promote health and access to healthcare services for disabled people while simultaneously working to counteract these issues. Course content will draw heavily from personal narratives and lived experiences of disabled people and their families, historical documents, and contemporary media.

Plain Language Course Description

The goal for this class is to work with students on learning and talking about different ways of thinking about disability and health in places like doctor’s offices or hospitals and in the community. People who take this class will think hard about their own beliefs about disability and health. They will also talk about how beliefs about disability may cause doctors, nurses, or therapists to think or act differently toward people with disabilities. Sometimes, it is hard for people with disabilities to get medical care because the equipment isn’t made for them, or it is hard to get a ride to go see a doctor, or doctors don’t listen as well as they should about what they need. Students in this class will also think about how to make some of these things better, as partners to people with disabilities. We will use videos and books that include people with disabilities and their families talking about what they like and don’t like about going to see a doctor, nurse, or therapist. We will also talk about the history of how people with disabilities are treated in this country. Finally, we will talk about how to treat people with disabilities better so they can always do the things they want, go to the places they want, and be with the people they want. The course will meet online once a week for an hour and a half, for 9 weeks.

Issue No. 116                                                                                April 19, 2022

Highlighted News and Announcements

Funding Opportunity for SSW Researchers
Public Interest Technology Network Challenge
UW Internal deadline: April 29, 2022
Announcing an excellent opportunity for SSW researchers! Public Interest Technology Network (PIT UN) universities are trying innovative tactics to produce graduates with multiple fluencies at the intersection of technology and policy. For its fourth year, projects are encouraged in the following priority areas: Educational Offerings, Career Pipeline/Placement, Faculty & Institution Building, and Strengthening the PIT University Network. UW will put forward 3 proposals; to be considered, submit a 1-page letter of intent with a description of proposed objectives, work plan, impact, timeline, list of collaborators, total amount requested and matching fund source(s) along with a CV (not NIH format) of the PI to welliver@uw.edu by 5:00pm Friday April 29.
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You are invited to attend UWNURF Diversity Lecture Series: Topic:  Climate change and Social Justice:  How Heat Inequity Leads to Health Inequity Date/Time:

Monday, May 2 7:00-8:00 PM PST

Register at: https://forms.office.com/r/tawucNykE2 or through the attached QR code Zoom Link:  https://washington.zoom.us/j/3117825083

Date: Thursday, April 28th from 3:00-4:00pm

Description:

Find it harder to meet friends or connect with others? Feeling awkward about meeting up? Our realities have changed since COVID-19 and so have we! Join UW Counseling Center Licensed Psychologist Charisse Williams, PhD to talk about resocializing and tips on engaging with others.

Registration Link:

https://washington.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMkfuivpjMrGdK38E4c_NUCOmoGi9j3bQD6

Labor Studies Scholarships and Fellowships – Open Now!

The Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies is pleased to announce that our scholarship applications for 2022-2023 are open now! We have seven scholarships and fellowships that are open to undergraduate and graduate students, with funding that ranges from $5,000 to $10,000 depending on the award. On top of that, students only need to fill out ONE online application to apply for all of our awards! We will do the work on our end to determine which awards you qualify for.

 

Please visit https://labor.washington.edu/scholarships-and-prizes for more information on each of our scholarships and to access the online application. The due date for applications is Monday, May 30th at 11:59pm.

 

If you are curious about the scholarship & fellowship selection process, how to strengthen your application, or any other questions, please register for our Scholarship Information Session on Thursday, April 21st, from 3:30-4:30pm.

 

In addition, please subscribe to our monthly newsletter, Labor Talks, for updates about funding opportunities, scholarship information sessions, and more.

 

For any questions, please reach out to Yasmin Ahmed at ypahmed@uw.edu!

UW Cultivating a Culture of Care Initiative (CCCI) invites you:

“Solidarity Walk and Garden Altar : Day of Remembrance and Community Healing” on Friday, May 13^th, 2pm at the Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center (ECC)

Join us in a Solidarity Walk and gathering at the Garden Altar to honor and remember the lives of loved ones we have lost and in support of those who are struggling. We gather as a caring community and stand together to say you are not alone and we remember our loved ones.

The Garden Altar is a space where you can reflect, leave notes, flowers, photos or cherished mementos. An honoring ceremony with music, words & space to share stories and heart as part of our individual and collective healing.  We hope to create a space for people and community to share stories as well as inspire life and healing.

• Please share this invite to your communities, family/friends & students. This is a Free and Open Event and your presence is valued.
• RSVP by May 6^th  if you and your organization members, friends and/or family can attend for programming preparation. The invite remains open thru day of event. UW/Community Organizations Names will be added to program if confirmed in advance.
• RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSetYtFcNjr71noyhJQiHPNQtkOAgOqMOFA5-ZMP4Ld0UaEA0w/viewform?usp=sf_link. Any questions, contact Linda Ando at riziki@uw.edu and if you have any questions and telephone message at 206-221-2836.

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PROGRAM

Date: Friday, May 13^th, 2022

(2pm-2:15pm) Opening

• Gather at ECC Garden Altar, Main Floor/Lobby
• Opening Welcome and Purpose of Event

(2:15pm-2:45pm) Solidarity Walk

• Line up for Solidarity Walk Procession with Luminaries and flowers

(3pm-4pm) Garden Altar Remembrance Ceremony

• Ceremony: Reading of names of remembrance
• Place Flower & Notes on Garden Altar
• Open Mic for people to share
• Closing words & gratitude

(4pm-5pm) Community Space & Reflection

• Open community space and time for people to connect
• Light Refreshments

Interested in Working with Academic Support Programs? ASP is hiring CLUE Tutors and Academic Success Coaches!

CLUE Tutoring

Do you have a passion for teaching, supporting other students, and are interested in enhancing your own skills?  Academic Support Programs is now hiring CLUE Tutors for the 2022-2023 Academic Year! Available positions include:

• Drop-In Tutors (Math, Chemistry, Physics, Writing, and Biology)
• Exam Review Tutors (Math, Chemistry, and Physics)
• Lead Tutor positions (Physics and Math)

To find more information about each position, how and where to apply, as well as priority deadlines, please visit: http://academicsupport.uw.edu/apply

Academic Success Coaching

Are you interested in supporting students in identifying and overcoming academic challenges? Do you enjoy the idea of sharing resources related to time management, motivation, and study strategies with students? Academic Support Programs is now hiring Academic Success Coaches for the 2022-2023 Academic Year! Available positions include:

• Academic Success Coaches
• Academic Success Coaches – EOP Support
• Allen School Academic Success Coach
• Graduate Student Success Coach
• Reinstatement Coach

To find more information about each position, how and where to apply, as well as priority deadlines, please visit: http://academicsupport.uw.edu/apply

Issue No. 115                                                                     April 12, 2022

Highlighted News and Announcements

Congratulations to Rona Levy, Margaret Kuklinski, and Jen Bailey!
Congratulations to Drs. Rona Levy and her colleague Tonya Palermo (Seattle Children’s Hospital) who, in collaboration with SDRG’s Drs. Margaret Kuklinski and Jen Bailey, have been awarded a five year NIH grant for a study entitled “Randomized controlled trial of an internet-based prevention intervention for young children at-risk for functional abdominal pain.” Rona explains “I am very excited about this study which will bring full circle into the prevention realm much of the observation and then intervention research our team has conducted over decades on the intergenerational transmission of the management of chronic pain and illness.”

Congratulations to Melissa Martinson and Tessa Evans-Campbell!
The Population Health Initiative has announced the award of eight Tier 2 pilot grants, and two of the funded projects (RODIS and STIM A SPU’US) include School of Social Work faculty! Congratulations to Melissa Martinson for the project “Population-Based Administrative Data to Understand Child Maltreatment and the Pandemic- The Risk of Death and Serious Injury Study (RODIS)” and Tessa Evans-Campbell for the project “STIM A SPU’US (“What’s In Your Heart”): A Culturally Adapted, Trauma Informed Parenting Intervention for the Colville Tribes”.

Funding Opportunity for SSW Researchers
Public Interest Technology Network Challenge
UW Internal deadline: April 29, 2022
Announcing an excellent opportunity for SSW researchers! Public Interest Technology Network (PIT UN) universities are trying innovative tactics to produce graduates with multiple fluencies at the intersection of technology and policy. For its fourth year, projects are encouraged in the following priority areas: Educational Offerings, Career Pipeline/Placement, Faculty & Institution Building, and Strengthening the PIT University Network. UW will put forward 3 proposals; to be considered, submit a 1-page letter of intent with a description of proposed objectives, work plan, impact, timeline, list of collaborators, total amount requested and matching fund source(s) along with a CV (not NIH format) of the PI to welliver@uw.edu by 5:00pm Friday April 29.

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Ride Now offers on-demand rides to eligible riders by providing ride vouchers up to $20 in value through Uber, Lyft or Yellow Cab to anywhere they want to go. While you don’t have to live in Seattle to use the service, your trip does have to start or end in the Seattle city limits. Riders can claim up to six $20 Ride Now vouchers per month (three roundtrips).

Riders can use the vouchers to connect to a transit hub or go someplace in their neighborhood not well served by transit.

To learn more about rider eligibility, how to use the service and to request ride vouchers, visit the Ride Now website.

Riders can choose which service provider they prefer based on their accessibility needs. Passengers who need a wheelchair accessible vehicle will be automatically routed to the Yellow Cab option.

In years past, the University of Washington’s Office of the Youth Protection Coordinator (formerly the Office of Youth Programs Development and Support) has hosted an annual Youth Programs Summer Job Fair for UW students interested in working in youth-serving settings. This year, we’ve decided to pivot and instead of hosting an event, we are dedicating a page of our website to a list of opportunities working with youth. 

Our Summer Jobs with Youth website lists employers from both UW and the community who are collectively recruiting for over 500 paid and volunteer positions. Year round employment may also be available.

We’d love your help spreading the word about this online resource to your students! Can you forward this announcement on to your students and/or share via social media?

Looking for a summer job? Enjoy working with youth? Check out the Summer Jobs with Youth website! There, you’ll find a listing of employers from both UW and the great Puget Sound community, all not-for-profit organizations, who are recruiting for paid and volunteer positions for this summer. Follow the links to job descriptions and application processes, and get ready for a great summer working with young people! Questions? Email uwminors@uw.edu.

The Spring Interprofessional Service Learning Fair is on Friday, April 22 from 11:15am-1:15pm at South Campus Center 316!

To order a free lunch and sign up for a van tour please RSVP here by Monday, April 18  https://forms.gle/GAR3D7girSNCSuHw8

• Learn more about service learning projects
• Take part in interprofessional conversation tables
• Sign up for a Mobile Health Outreach Van Tour
• Enjoy a free lunch!

Questions: Christina Tran, ctran17@uw.edu or Karissa Yamaguchi, kyama8@uw.edu

For more information and to apply: https://pointfoundation.org/point-apply/bipoc-scholarship/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=BIPOC_2022S&utm_content=static_ad_1&fbclid=IwAR0TUOLrAS8uaTl0KvfGMsRiK0cpFHJLMgLJY79Pveh3zlzCjIuWzccflko

The MSW Program Office will be hosting a social work licensure Q&A session on Thursday April 28th from 5-6pm via Zoom at this link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/91780319189 (Links to an external site.) (full Zoom info listed below)

This presentation will outline the steps you will have to take to become licensed as a Social Worker in Washington. Information on the different licensing categories, required work experience hours and required supervision hours to obtain your Social Work license will be provided. We’ll also be joined by Clinical Social Work faculty and the president of the Washington State Society for Clinical Social Work to discuss offerings provided to MSW students and associates.

Before attending the Q&A, please view our recorded licensure presentation, and review other relevant materials here: https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1387757/pages/licensure-and-certification-information. Attached is a cheat sheet on the path to licensure in Washington State that you may also find helpful.

This session will be recorded for those students who can’t attend live. Any follow-up questions can be sent to Aliyah Vinikoor, Asst. MSW Program Director, at aliyahv@uw.edu.

Topic: Social Work Licensure Q&A
Time: Apr 28, 2022 05:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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