Hello Health Equity Circle! We would like to invite you to Lobby Day 2018!

What: HEC Lobby Day 

Date: February 19 (President’s Day) 2018

Time: 9a-3p in Olympia (meet at SOCC at 6:30a to carpool)

Other Info: Bring a lunch or plan to eat near the Capitol/in the café on site.

Note: Sign-up google form will be sent to listserv soon

What is Lobby Day?

Every year on President’s Day (Feb. 19), Health Equity Circle brings 50+ students (from schools of public health, medicine, law, social work, and more) to Olympia to voice support for or against the passage of specific bills that are critical to health equity in WA. As a group, we decide on 4-5 bills that we want our legislators to vote for or against, host trainings on lobbying, and schedule appointments to meet with legislators. During Lobby Day, students will meet with individual politicians to tell their stories and influence votes. Not only is Lobby Day a chance to advance policy around social justice issues, it’s a great opportunity to learn more about the legislative process in WA, meet students from across UW, and grow as an advocate.

Here is a PDF of a flyer for a job opportunity as a program director.

Program Director Job Announcement-Final- January 2018 (002)

We are excited to announce several workshops and events for Winter quarter along with the UW SSW Student Event Calendar. More information and details pertaining to the calendar can be found on the website.

For the following events, It’s imperative that you RSVP for workshops and sessions that you plan on attending. This helps us immensely with planning purposes.

Winter Cohort Meetings:

Friday, January 26th, 12:30-1:30pm in SWS 306 (1^st Year EDP weekend)

Friday, January 26^th, 4:30-5:20pm in SWS 305 (EDP2 & 3 weekend)
Wednesday, January 31^st, 5-6pm in SWS 305 (evening, all years)

RSVP here for a cohort meeting by January 29. Evening students can attend a Friday session based on the appropriate year, if needed. Weekend students can attend the evening session if your schedule is more suitable.

PERSONAL DEVLEOPMENT WORKSHOPS:

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We are excited to announce several workshops and events for Winter quarter along with the UW SSW Student Event Calendar. More information and details pertaining to the calendar can be found on the website.

For the following events, It’s imperative that you RSVP for workshops and sessions that you plan on attending. This helps us immensely with planning purposes.

Winter Cohort Meetings:

Thursday, February 1^st, 12-1pm in SWS 305 (1^st Year Day)

Thursday, February 1^st, 5-6pm in SWS 305 (2^nd Year Day and Advanced Standing)

RSVP here for a cohort meeting by January 29.

PERSONAL DEVLEOPMENT WORKSHOPS:

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Join our small and mighty team!
Spread the word and help us find our Member Services Coordinator and Operations Manager

The Coalition is growing and we are hiring for two important new positions to help us be collaborative, strong, and effective. Please review and disseminate the detailed job descriptions below and on our website.

Applications are due by close of business (5.00 p.m. PST) on January 26, 2018. Applications submitted after that date may be reviewed in a second round.

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Paid Internship in Washington, DC: The National Academy of Social Insurance (www.nasi.org) is now accepting applications for paid internships for students either studying for or interested in careers in social insurance policy. Our internship programs cover a wide array of policy areas including Health and Income Security Policy (Washington Internship), Aging and Long-term Care Policy (Somers Internship), Disability Policy (Eileen Sweeney Internship), and Health Policy (Rashi Fein Internship). The programs consist of a 12-week summer semester internship that usually spans May to August, depending on the student’s schedule. Students receive a $4,500 honorarium for their internship experience and academic credit may be arranged. International students with valid student visas are encouraged to apply.  For more information, visit our Internship Opportunities page or contact us at internships@nasi.org.  Application deadline: March 1, 2018. 

Note to MSW social work students: Students may count 3 of these credits toward the MSW elective requirement.

LGBTQ Communities, Public Health, and Migration in Mexico

Application Deadline: JANUARY 31

Program Dates: July 19- August 17, 2018

Total Program Fees: $4300

Location: Mexico City, Mexico

Program website: https://chid.washington.edu/study-abroad/2018/summer/lgbtq-communities-public-health-and-migration-mexico

Our time in Mexico City and surrounding areas will introduce students to local LGBTQ activists, organizations, and change-makers. We will learn from our community partners about how a country’s history shapes its LGBTQ communities. Questions we will engage include: What can we learn from the challenges and successes of LGBTQ communities in Mexico’s capital as they work to mobilize and create change throughout the country? How does the contemporary landscape of migration affect identity issues in Mexico? How do LGBTQ rights intersect with other areas of human rights in the country such as environmental justice, women’s rights, access to education, etc.?

Curious about what it means to participate in one of the only LGBTQ focused study abroad programs at UW? Check out the Queer Study Abroad Resource (QSAR), created by alumni of this program: https://issuu.com/mexicocitylgbtqstudyabroad/docs/mexicocityqueerstudyabroadresource

 

Questions? Contact Sasha Duttchoudhury at sasha9@uw.edu or Dr. Taranath at anu@uw.edu.

 

Students can get GWSS credit for this course, contact Laura Marquez at gwssadvs@uw.edu for details!

NOTE for Social Work Students – In almost all cases, the summer FLAS program works better for our students. It’s incredibly difficult to attend language courses and do your practicum, since the language courses almost always meet on campus 5 days/week.

Did you know that there are approximately 140 FLAS fellowships per year for UW students?

Interested in studying a foreign language and learning about different cultures? FLAS Fellowships award $7,500-$33,000 to UW students studying foreign languages.

(Available to current and incoming undergraduate, graduate and professional UW students who are U.S. citizens or U.S. permanent residents).

Applications now open! Due January 31, 2018 at 5 PM PST.
For more information and to apply, visit jsis.washington.edu/advise/funding/flas/

UPCOMING FLAS INFORMATION SESSIONS:
Th Jan 11, 10-2 (FLAS Table), Study Abroad Fair, HUB Ballroom

Th Jan 11, 10:30-11 AM, 2:30-3 PM, ‘Funding Your Study Abroad Program,’ HUB 214

Wed Jan 17, 3:30-4:30 PST Web Chat (see website for access instructions)

Tu Jan 23, 2:30-3:30 PST Web Chat (see website for access instructions)

Th Jan 25, 2-5:30 PM (FLAS Table), Scholarships Fair, Mary Gates Hall Commons

Th Jan 25, 2:30-3 PM ‘Last-minute tips for FLAS Applicants,’ Mary Gates Hall 171
Questions? Contact Robyn Davis at rldavis@uw.edu

For more information, see attached flyer here.

FREE CITIZENSHIP ASSISTANCE AND

IMMIGRATION CONSULTATIONS

Seattle United for Immigrants and Refugees

Saturday, February 3, 2018 at 10 AM
Exhibition Hall at Seattle Center 301 Mercer Street, Seattle, WA 98109 (free parking)

More information?  Call 206-386-9090

Our attorneys and experts can help you with your citizenship application.

Have other immigrations questions? Free legal consultations available at the workshop.Open to anyone who needs help

• Sign up for a time slot
  • Walk-ins are also welcome.
• Come prepared
  • Here is a list of what you need to bring with you.
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  • Share our multilingual flyers

Building Practice-Based Research Networks: Forging Practical

Science/Field Collaborations

8:30-10:00 January 30^th, room 305

A Colloquium and Opportunities for Consultation

Dr. John Brekke, University of Southern California SSW

A PBRN Is defined as a collaboration between practitioners and academic partners who come together to understand real-world problems observed in daily practice, engage in solution-focused research, and then use the results to improve practice/service. Although varied in size and form, this involves service providers and field leaders coming together to identify key topics/questions directly impacting the field, engaging with researchers toward answering these questions, and using the results to improve service delivery or other targeted aspects of field needs. Although there is a history of use in some areas of service and care, PBRNs are newer to social services—and bring strong potential to help develop timely, sustainable partnerships.

Dr. John Brekke (USC School of Social Work) will describe his experience in helping to form a PBRN focused on health disparities of people who experience severe and persistent mental illness. Dr. Brekke will use that experience to illustrate aims, strategies, challenges, and solution building—with an eye to helping our community consider possibilities. PBRNs are a potentially useful form of engagement, consistent with our Innovation to Impact aims. We will have other opportunities for discussion with Dr. Brekke later that date, which will soon be posted.

Please join us in learning more about and discussing these partnership avenues!

In Autumn quarter, we provided opportunities for you all to attend gatherings of each of the concentrations to facilitate your decision as to which concentration will work best for you. It is now time to choose your concentration and the process for declaring your concentration is relatively simple – you’ll log into STAR and answer 3 questions about how you are envisioning your advanced practicum – then we ask you which concentration you’d like to declare.

Please do this by Sunday, January 7th in order to allow us to start planning for next academic year.  It should take 10-15 minutes to complete, at the most.

STAR is found at:  https://star.ssw.washington.edu/secure/

• Click the “STAR” link in the “Get Access” box.  You will sign in using your UWNetID.
• You may go in and work on your learning plan and “SAVE” it as many times as you like until January 7^th, but please remember to “SUBMIT” before the 7^th.

IF YOU STILL CAN’T DECIDE —

If you’re still having difficulty deciding, please speak again with your field faculty member or contact the faculty associated with the concentrations you are considering asap – that contact info may be found in the “MSW Day/Advanced Standing|Overview of Concentrations” at: http://socialwork.uw.edu/students/msw/msw-dayadvanced-standing-overview-concentrations

You can also contact our Assistant Director of the MSW Program Aliyah Vinikoor at 206-543-3416 or aliyahv@uw.edu.

If you change your mind after you submit, you still may be able to change for another month or two, but switches will be approved on a space available basis and we will need to receive an email from your field faculty member, approving the change, before we could reopen your learning plan for you to edit.

ASSIGNMENT OF FACULTY ADVISORS

Around the beginning of February, you will all be assigned permanent faculty advisors from within your concentration.  We will let you know when these assignments have been done. We will be facilitating setting up meetings with your faculty advisors shortly thereafter.

WHEN DOES CONCENTRATION CHOICE TAKE EFFECT?

Once you declare your concentration in STAR, it will be reviewed by the field faculty and approved or they’ll ask for more clarification if anything is unclear.  You actually won’t be coded into your new concentrations until after Spring registration and your new concentration will take effect in early May for registration for Autumn Quarter 2018.

Any questions?  Please email Student Services, sswstsrv@uw.edu.

Best wishes and let us know if you have any questions!  Please have a wonderful, restful and stress-free break and come back refreshed in 2018!

Best,

Student Services

Carlson Leadership & Public Service Center
University of Washington Career Center

Graduate Student Community Liaison and Mentor

The Carlson Leadership & Public Service Center seeks to recruit a paid graduate student intern to build out and facilitate community-based internships for undergraduate students in non-profit organizations in neighborhoods in SE Seattle, Tukwila and Renton.

Hours: 15 hours per week: Winter, 2018-Spring, 2018 (possible continuance through summer)

Compensation: $19 per hour

Position Description: Through a partnership with the UW’s Career Center, the Carlson Leadership & Public Service Center will work with a team of graduate students in the on-going development and implementation of the Carlson Center’s Undergraduate Community-Based Internship Program (UCBI). This paid internship provides a unique opportunity for graduate students at the UW to learn more about facilitating student learning, linking experiential opportunities to career readiness, program management, and a better understanding of the strengths and challenges faced by non-profit partners and communities in the Seattle/King County area.

Under the guidance of Carlson Center staff and Career & Internship Center collaborators, the selected graduate student will join a team of Graduate Student Mentors to engage in the following scope of activities:

Foster strong community-campus partnerships:

• Foster partnerships with nonprofit organizations in their assigned community/topic area who may be interested in hosting an undergraduate intern.
• Assist in the application and selection process for host organizations
• Assist in the recruitment, interviewing and placement of undergraduate interns into host organizations
• Coordinate an orientation for accepted host organizations.
• Perform site visits during each quarter to meet with the supervisors of students.
• Maintain communication with organizations throughout the duration of the internship.
• Communicate clearly and regularly with other Carlson Center staff regarding partnership strengths, challenges, and successes.

Mentor undergraduate interns:

• Work with undergraduates to develop personal and professional development plans as they relate to their goals at their host organization.
• Coordinate weekly professional and personal development opportunities for interns.
• Meet with students individually and in small groups to provide opportunities for reflection and coaching in relation to their personal and professional goals.
• Coordinate learning opportunities for students in relation to issues of anti-oppression strategies, social justice, and professional development.
• Implement a collaborative performance evaluation process.

Qualifications:

• Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing
• Ability to work collaboratively with other graduate students
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Organized and detail-oriented
• Self-motivated to solve issues that may arise
• Interested in learning program skills in program implementation
• Committed to creating equitable campus-community partnerships
• Familiar with principles in student learning, asset based partnership, and anti-oppression work.

To apply please submit the following:

• A current resume as well as the names and contact information for two references.
• A cover letter outlining why you are applying for this internship and articulating your interests in mentoring undergraduate interns, working with under-represented communities, and developing community-campus partnerships. Please also include a description of 2-3 things you seek to learn from this graduate student internship.

 

Deadline: Please submit all materials via email by January 16^th at 11:59 pm Pacific time to Rachel Vaughn, Director, Carlson Leadership & Public Service Center, rvaughn@uw.edu. Questions may be addressed to Rachel via email, or via phone at (206) 685-2705.

Both Merit-based and Need-based, the competitive Cobell Scholarship is annual, non-renewable, and available to any post-secondary (after high school) student who is; an enrolled member of a US Federally-Recognized Tribe, enrolled in full-time study and is degree-seeking. Applicants must plan to attend or be attending any nationally, regionally and industry accredited non-profit, public and private, institution.
Applicants must be pursuing a vocational certificate or diploma, associate’s, bachelor’s, master’s, doctoral or professional degree, or certificate.

https://cobellscholar.academicworks.com/

I wanted to share with you details about our upcoming community Forum as I thought the topic might be of interest to you and your networks.  The title is, “Infant and Early Childhood Trauma:  Core Concepts and Tools to Build Resilience,” and will feature Dr. Chandra Ghosh Ippen, a leading expert in complex childhood trauma from University of California at San Francisco. It will be held on Tuesday, February 6th, at the Washington State Convention Center.  Dr. Ghosh Ippen is an engaging presenter who can take science/research and translate it into what all of us can understand.

A little about our community Forums:  NWCF Forums bring together stakeholders in child welfare – parents, educators, researchers, health care professionals, service providers, first responders, legal professionals, public servants, and more – to share exciting new research and interventions, learn from each other, and forge partnerships to maximize our collective impact on our community’s children.   This year we are expecting 450 + people to learn and work together to address the topic of childhood trauma, an issue we believe is one of our region’s more urgent public health issues.

Attached is a colorful flyer.  Below is a PNG image that can be easily forwarded and here’s a link to the Facebook event – https://www.facebook.com/events/386828291760905/

NWCF 2018 Forum Flyer

Please see below and attached for information regarding a three-credit nursing seminar course offered winter 2018.

 

NURS 505 Selected Topics in BNHS

Pathways to Board Service:  Introductory Health Sector Focused Seminar

Winter 2018, 3 Credits

Wednesday, 2:30-5:20; Health Sciences T521

Instructor:  Marla E. Salmon, ScD, RN, FAAN (msalmon@uw.edu)

Professor, Psychosocial and Community Health

Professor, Global Health

NURS505 11 flyer

Contact Andrea Gierlich for an add code (gandrea@uw.edu)

You’ve been invited to participate in a research study!

Participation involves a 10-15 minute multiple-choice questionnaire regarding your sexual experiences. If you complete the questionnaire, you are eligible to be part of a random drawing for 1 of 5 Amazon gift cards (one worth $100, two worth $50, and two worth $20) as a way to thank you for your participation.

If you are interested in participating, you can click on the following link where you will receive more information on the study and be asked to go over a consent form. After going over the consent form and agreeing to it, you will be able to fill out the questionnaire. You can fill out the questionnaire anytime between now and February 24^th, 2018:

Click this link to participate in the study: tinyurl.com/uwsexsurvey

Your responses will be anonymous; there is no way for anyone to know who filled out the questionnaire. Your participation is entirely voluntary; you may skip any questions that you do not want to answer. At the end of the questionnaire, you will be directed to a completely different website where you will be asked to input your UW email so that you can be part of the random drawing. Your questionnaire responses will not be capable of being traced to your UW email in any way.

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