Application deadline is July 14, 2020. Action Academy Program Details can be found here.  Action Academy Application here

As we all know 2020 is a very important Election year that will shape the course of our democracy for decades to come.  Millennials and Gen Z’ers  will hold the largest share of eligible voters this fall and they have the power to make a difference. These new members of our democracy however, historically vote at lower rates than older cohorts. We can help change this historical trend by supporting initiatives to increase access to the democratic process. Folks at Common Power, a Seattle based organization that provides creative onramps to civic engagement have launched two Summer programs through our CP Future community that will provide ongoing, structured opportunities for this group of voters. It will provide everyone with a voice and take part in nonpartisan democratic engagement activities.

Action Academy is a 12-week program for young adults to explore voting rights, a cornerstone in our democracy. A range of activities from zoom calls, in-depth interviews, and meeting of professional mentors to name a few. Participants will receive a $1000 stipend upon completion of the program. Potential participants must apply.

For more information, feel free to contact Larcy Douglas at larcy@commonpurposenow.org. Don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions!

Application & More Information

• Seattle: https://redcap.iths.org/surveys/?s=8CWM8H4DXF&site=1&cohortyear=2020

Applications are now open for the interprofessional elective WWAMI AHEC Scholars Program. There is not a specific deadline, but spaces are open until filled.  This program is designed for students who will be a graduate student through the next two years, so good for DAY 1 and EDP 1 and 2 students.

Watch the video! Video Link:  https://youtu.be/FqsHsra3bms

Visit the website: https://depts.washington.edu/ahec/wwami-ahec-scholars-program/

 What is it?

• An interdisciplinary educational and training program focusing on increasing the diverse, culturally competent healthcare workforce that specializes in rural and underserved areas.
• It provides you with skills and experiences to better prepare you for work in these areas.
• It especially seeks to help students from disadvantaged backgrounds, rural areas, and racial/ethnic groups that are inadequately represented in health care (but that is not a stipulation for acceptance).
• The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) will identify AHEC Scholar students as having special training and experience with rural and underserved communities.

What is the structure?

• This is a two-year inter-professional program in which you would learn about other disciplines and develop team-based learning and skills that you can take into practice.
• You can take the courses for UW elective credit if you are a UW student or no credit/no cost.
• If you complete the program, you would will receive a certificate of completion.

Who can apply?

• You can apply if you are in a health professional program that ends in a certificate or degree. (The long list of accepted disciplines is in the application.)

• • Last year in Seattle, the program had students from UW Medicine, Nursing, Dentistry, Pharmacy, PT/OT, Prosthetics and Orthotics , PA (MEDEX) and N.D. students from Bastyr, Doctorate of Nursing students from Seattle University and and Shoreline Community College Nursing joined also.
  • This past year, 100 students across Washington and Idaho were enrolled in the program.

For more information contact:
Stacey L. Morrison, MLIS, MA
Associate Director, WWAMI AHEC Program Office
uwahec@uw.edu

As part of this new Interprofessional Health Sciences project students will connect with residents of Northhaven Retirement Center and Wisteria View Manor via letter/telephone/zoom.  These centers have identified many residents who are becoming increasingly isolated due to COVID restrictions.  Student volunteers will make a three-month commitment to contact their “grandparent” a minimum of once every other week.  Students who are fluent in other languages are encouraged to join.

For more information contact Patti Matsuda, pmatsuda@uw.edu

https://www.pce.uw.edu/certificates/evidence-based-practices-in-childrens-behavioral-health

In this certificate program, you’ll learn the core elements of various evidence-based treatments for common childhood disorders such as anxiety, depression, extreme/complex behaviors and trauma. Primary EBPs reviewed include: Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Anxiety, Trauma, Depression, Multisystemic Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy.

Three Courses
EBP in Counseling Settings:  Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Anxiety & Mood Disorders
EBP in Counseling Settings: Cultural Humility & Treatments for Trauma Disorders in Schools
EBP in Counseling Settings: Extreme & Complex Cases

Current MSW students who are in practicum and work with children meet the  requirements to apply.

UW Hall Health and a team of MPH students are studying mental health among students during the COVID-19 epidemic, and how UW could be more supportive.

10th annual Womxn Who Rock: Making Scenes, Building Communities 2020: Ofrendas For The Future.

The UW Libraries website wants to hear from you! Whether you’re a frequent visitor or have never logged on, we need your input testing features to improve the site.

Get a $10 Amazon gift card or $10 added to your Husky card for completing a 20-minute study and telling us what you think. Sign up here: https://tiny.cc/uwlib
If you have any questions about this study, please reach out to us at vwojnas@uw.edu

Free online course from Indiana University School of Social Work: Telehealth Basics for Social Work Educators and Clinicians

Click on the link below to access:
https://expand.iu.edu/browse/socialwork/courses/telehealth-basics-for-social-work-educators-behavioral-health-clinicians-responding-to-covid-19
You’ll need to sign up for a guest account and verify your email address before you can sign in.

The Indiana University School of Social Work is offering a free introductory program titled ‘Telehealth Basics for Social Work Educators and Clinicians’ responding to COVID-19.  The program is online and self-paced. It includes 3 modules that provide help with risk-management, ethical guidelines, service policies, social media, and strategies and skills for engaging with clients online. Participants that complete the program can earn 2 CEU’s.

 

The three modules in this course were adapted from our IUSSW e-Social Work Practice Certificate

~Submission Form (Deadline: Sun, April 26 @ 11:59 PM): https://docs.google.com/forms/d/15RoF3pVqxcoUZDzrWFXUhIFmZUcbk6g3nDuJguZCXKk/edit

Contact:  cjuw@uw.edu

We’re living through such unprecedentedly difficult times, and it is understandable to feel overwhelmed –with trepidation, grief, loneliness, exhaustion, and the muted desperation of having all sense of normalcy evaporate. We at Capillaries: The Journal of Narrative Medicine believe that writing and art has real power now, more than ever, to help us unpack our thoughts. Thus, we offer our journal to you, as a space to decompress and reflect on personal, community, national, and global issues.

Capillaries is a student-run project at the University of Washington. Since February 2018, our mission has been to provide the UW community (students, staff, and faculty) with the opportunity to reflect on experiences with medicine, healing, illness, and/or grief through prose, poetry, and artwork. Furthermore, Capillaries aims to support students and the community in their healthcare journeys and to promote greater understanding between the sciences and the humanities.

In our Spring 2020 issue, we want to encourage diverse perspectives and ideas from all members of the health sciences –reflections on being a student during this time, on caring for patients and one’s family, and on how this pandemic exposes the resilience, strength, and compassion of our society but also its flaws (e.g. discrimination/microaggressions, how people are profiteering off of this pandemic, inequities in access to healthcare resources and educational resources, etc).

~For previous editions of the journal (including a special-edition journal in collaboration with the Center for Health Sciences Interprofessional Education, Research, and Practice (CHSIE) and the Seattle-King County Clinic in Spring 2019) and submission guidelines, please see our website: https://www.capillariesjournal.com/

 

https://www.socialwork.career/2020/03/covid-19-resources-social-workers-therapists.html

Roundup of over 50 free resources that may be of help to you as a social worker, mental health professional and/or social work educator during the COVID-19 pandemic.

These include free on demand trainings (some of which offer free CEUs), resources to assist with hospice and palliative care, protecting immigrant families, and several social work and higher education specific resources.

In addition to these resources, there is a 30 free self-care tools such as meditations and workouts, and 50 more resources to help you serve your clients and educate/entertain your children.

bit.ly/sswoppcal

It can become really daunting, while managing a class schedule and personal life, to keep track of all of the upcoming deadlines to apply to vital opportunities including scholarships, fellowships, assistantships, and research presentations. To support you in staying organized Student Services is providing an “Opportunities Calendar”. This is a simple to use shared google sheet that has all opportunities, their due dates, and resource link. Use the tabs at the bottom of the page to navigate to a different month to see what deadlines are approaching. This will be updated weekly so this is a great link to save!

 

Hello Huskies!

We are recruiting research participants!

Are you interested in participating in our study that is seeking to analyze the association between major and marijuana usage amongst undergraduate students? You do not have to use cannabis to participate in this study. The study consists of 1 questionnaire that will take about 5-10 minutes to complete. All information will be collected anonymously.

• If you have any questions or would like more information, please contact the research team sabuchbinder@gmail.com. You can also contact the course instructors for SPH 480 at SPH480@uw.edu for any concerns about this project.

If you are ready to participate now, please click the link below and fill out the questionnaire completely and truthfully to the best of your ability.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf5CP4RQ0ScCVVx6jSWNKKatXTOHEmGELE6L2EV_6wmQp8_2A/viewform?usp=sf_link

The Washington State Society for Clinical Social Work is accepting submissions for their annual student paper award. As many of you are writing your final papers for the quarter, this may be a good time to consider submitting something that you’ve written recently that you are proud of. In addition to recognition for your good work, it’s also a nice way to share an area of interest with fellow clinical social workers in the field.

Below are the details from the WSSCSW website:

Papers will be reviewed and scored by volunteer WSSCSW readers. The two strongest papers submitted we are offering a 1 year membership to WSSCSW,1 year free entry to all Professional Development events, plus publication of their papers on the WSSCSW website. Winners will be acknowledged at the WSSCSW annual party.

Entries must be directly relevant to clinical social work practice. Your paper or project can (and probably should) be a paper or project you wrote for a class. You can edit for brevity.

Paper should be in double-spaced 12 point font, no more than 10 pages long, and must conform to APA formatting standards.

Due April 30, 2020

We are inviting students from all health sciences departments to share their writing and art in our upcoming Spring 2020 journal.

~~For previous editions of the journal and submission guidelines, please see our website:  https://www.capillariesjournal.com/

~~Submission Form (Deadline: Sun, April 26 @ 11:59 PM): https://docs.google.com/forms/d/15RoF3pVqxcoUZDzrWFXUhIFmZUcbk6g3nDuJguZCXKk/edit

Please do not hesitate to reach out to us at cjuw@uw.edu. We look forward to your stories!

Each year, we in the Health Sciences schools select a Common Book that addresses social determinants of health and health inequities that will impact our students as they move on into their chosen healthcare professions.  Throughout the school year we host a series of lectures, panel discussions, and seminars focused on the topic of the book, and which encourage interprofessional community engagement and activism.

In preparation for the coming year, we would like to gather your recommendations for the 2020-2021 Common Book.  Please fill out the survey here. 

This survey is open to all members of our health sciences community, please feel free to forward this email.

IMS is one of the Western world’s oldest and most-respected meditation retreat centers. We are dedicated to providing a spiritual refuge for all who seek freedom of mind and heart.

Insight Meditation Society

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