The application period for CSWE’s 2018–2019 Minority Fellowship Program for Master’s Students is now open! Applications are due by May 23, 2018, at 11:59 pm ET.

The 1-year MFP Master’s fellowship

• enhances the training of full-time, direct-practice focused, social work master’s students in the final year of study;
• features specialized training on mental health and substance use disorder issues
• includes a monetary stipend; and
• offers access to professional development support.

Applicants must be committed to seeking employment in a behavioral health setting with the target population immediately after graduation, for at least 2 years.

Visit the CSWE website for complete eligibility information and application instructions.

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I am reaching out from Helping Hands Visitation Services, an agency that provides supervised visitation services to families dealing with family law matters.

We are currently looking to hire some on call individuals that are willing to work Saturdays and Sundays. Helping Hands offers the flexibility to accept a case for just one time, or to take it on a continuous basis.

Applicants must have strong report writing skills, enjoy working with children, have a background in social work or law and the ability to pass a criminal background check. Compensations starts at $18/hr and is dependent on experience in the field.

If interested, students should reach out to Helping Hands either by phone or email. Please do indicate that this email reached the correct audience and if it would be helpful if I brought it some flyers or applications.

I look forward to hearing a response.

Anastacia Fedina

Owner/Operator

Helping Hands Visitation Services

www.helpinghandsvs.org

helpinghandsvisitation@gmail.com

253-298-2379

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Public Space, Public Life

UrbDP 498A / 598A

(MSW students should register for 598A; BASW for 498A)

Summer full-term, 3 credits, T/Th, 10-11:50a
Open to all students

Instructor: Peter Dunn (ptdunn@uw.edu)

This class introduces students to the concept of public space, its role in the city’s social and political relations, and the tools for intervening in public spaces. How are public spaces democratic? How d
o people present themselves, view others, and interact in these spaces? What are the rules of behavior, and how are they enforced? Who belongs there? Is a mall or a coffee shop a public space? Does it matter if everyone is looking down at their screens? How can physical design or programmed activities change the character of public spaces? This class will explore these issues in two ways. First, we will use foundational readings and exemplary case studies as a basis for class discussions on how public spaces have been theorized, created, and studied. Second, we will use Seattle spaces as our own case studies for students to practice looking at, inhabiting, and intervening in public space for their own creative projects.

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Your fellow students in Soc W 506 this quarter desperately need survey responses for their projects from other MSW students. Please review titles and deadlines below and respond to as many as you have time. There will be a second batch of surveys going out towards this end of this week. Your peers thank you.

PROJECTS
Social Media’s Impact On Credible News Consumption
Hadley Cronk, Hcronk@uw.edu
Target Audience: all UW MSW students
Link: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/hcronk/352784
Deadline: May 2nd

UW MSW Student Perceptions of Substance Users
Meghan Rowley , mrowley2@uw.edu
Target Audience: First year MSW students
Link: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/mrowley2/352794
Deadline: May 2nd

Perceptions of Poverty and MSW student’s Social Work Practice
Students Conducting Research:
Lily Cory lcory94@gmail.com
Alex Strout astrout@uw.edu
Target Audience: All MSW students (1st, 2nd, Advanced, EDP)
Link: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/astrout/353262
Deadline: May 2nd

LGBTQ Social Work Identity
Nick Dominique, nd11@uw.edu
Target audience: All students in any MSW program, specifically those who identify as LGBTQ
Link: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/nd11/353526
Deadline: May 4th

Perceptions of Cultural Diversity of Students in the MSW Program at the UW
Kristen Alstott , ka19@uw.edu
Target Audience: MSW students who will graduate in 2019 (First year DAY students and 2nd year EDP students)
Link (do NOT take survey until 6pm on 4/23) https://qtrial2018q2az1.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3f4WhTBVX0Oxm3X:
Deadline: noon on 5/11 for chance to win $25 Amazon gift card

Mapping Change Ideologies
Melina Di Stefano, melina.j.distefano@gmail.com
Target audience: All MSW graduate students (advanced, day, extended)
Link: Mapping Change Ideologies
Deadline: May 11th, 2018

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Hello,

The Northwest Leaders in Behavioral Health Program (NLBHP) is now accepting applications. The NLBHP is working to recruit and train a cadre of outstanding social work practitioners prepared for behavioral health prevention and clinical intervention with individuals across the lifespan who are at risk of or who have developed a behavioral health disorder. MSW Day, Advancing Standing, and EDP students in direct practice concentrations who are starting their advanced practicum in Summer 2018 or Fall 2018 are eligible to apply. Additional eligibility criteria can be found at the following link: https://socialwork.uw.edu/programs/behavioral-health/behavioral-health-faqs

The NLBHP includes an integrative seminar that meets for three quarters, as well as the completion of specific social work courses. Additionally, there is a $10,000 stipend awarded to NLBHP trainees. For additional information, please follow this link: https://socialwork.uw.edu/programs/behavioral-health/behavioral-health-curriculum

The application requires an applicant statement, a resume, a copy of your unofficial transcript, and a letter of recommendation. The deadline to apply to the program is May 7, 2018.

To apply, please follow this link:  https://socialwork.uw.edu/programs/northwest-leaders-behavioral-health-program

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A light meal and beverages will be served.

Please RSVP HERE

Note that he will also be speaking at 2 other events:

• Pecoraro Lectureship, 5/2: 6:00-7:15 pm Talaris Conference Center  “The Physician-citizen: Reaffirming Responsibilities for Civic Engagement”
• Grand Rounds, 5/3: 8:00-9:15 am HSB T-625 “Five Big Ideas in the Education of Physicians”

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“Sharing Across Generations: Honoring Indigenous Food Kinships: The Living Breath of wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ”

Indigenous Foods and Ecological Knowledge Symposium

May 4 and 5, 2018

8:45am – 5:00 pm 

UW wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ Intellectual House

Includes continental breakfast and traditional foods lunch both days!

UW Students FREE! Other students and elders half off

Join us for this year’s Living Breath Indigenous Foods and Ecological Knowledge Symposium. This year we have opened our doors to invite you to two days of amazing panels and break-out sessions in honor of Native Youth and Elders. Elders have much to give and pass on. What are the best ways to listen to and  honor our knowledge bearers? How do young people look to the future of our Native nations and communities and their sacred relations with their place and their planet? This year we make the conversation between elders and youth prominent! Join us to share knowledge, experience and expertise on tribal food sovereignty initiatives, food justice and security, traditional foods and health, indigenous foods systems and global climate change. We invite all of you who hold these issues dear to join us for this important conversation. Your voice is welcomed!

* A link to the two-day schedule will be uploaded to the American Indian Studies website soon.

We have a great line-up of speakers and presentations!

– “Transformational Eating: Ceremony of Gratitude.”

– “Rotinoshon:ni Seeds and Sovereignty, from Creation to Contamination: Looking at the Effects of Genetically Modified Organisms on Indigenous Seeds and People.”

– “Iskwew mācīwin, Woman hunting, among the paskwāwiyiniwak, muskegowininiwak, and sakāithiniwak (Plains, Swampy & Woodland Cree peoples).”

– Empowering Muckleshoot Youth through Traditional Foods, Plants, Medicines, and Living Cultural.”

– “Everyday Healing Practices: Implementing Immaterial Cultural Wealth to Combat Intergenerational Trauma.”

– “Native Youth Culinary Roots.”

– “Building and Sustaining an Indigenous Community Garden.”

– “Yahowt Indigenous Women’s Permaculture Program.”

Register at: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3339286

* All prices include a continental breakfast and a traditional Northwest Coast foods lunch included for day or days purchased.

Adults: 20.00 for a day or 35.00 for both days

UW Students (Seattle, Tacoma and Bothell) FREE but must register.

Youth rate (12-21):10.00 one day/15.00 both days

Elders: (65 and over)-10.00 one day/15.00 both days

NOTE: A one-day ticket allows you to enter whatever day that you use it. One-day tickets aren’t issued specific to date. Please purchase and we will record your entrance at event.

TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR SALE AT THE DOOR

For more information contact symposium coordinator Stephanie Riedl at stephanie@naahillahee.org.

For registration questions contact the registration coordinator Jordan Woolston at jorbrowo@uw.edu.

Symposium sponsors: Na’ah Illahee Fund, UW’s American Indian Studies Department, Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity, College of the Environment, Devon Peña (The Acequia Institute) Bill Holm Center, UW-Tacoma, Social and Historical Studies, UW-Tacoma, Office of Equity & Inclusion, wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ Intellectual House, Lucy Jarosz (Department of Geography), Jackson School/Canadian Studies, Dr. Marc Gladney.

Planning Committee: Dr. Charlotte Coté, Dr. Dian Million,  Jessica Hernandez, Dr. Michelle Montgomery, Susan Balbas, Dr. Clarita Lefthand Begay, and Jordan Woolston.

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Charlotte Coté (Tseshaht/Nuu-chah-nulth), Ph.D.

Associate Professor, University of Washington, Department of American Indian Studies, Box 354305,Seattle, WA, 98195,(206)221-6549,https://ais.washington.edu/.

Author: Spirits of Our Whaling Ancestors: Revitalizing Makah and Nuu-chah-nulth Traditions, UW Press,http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/COTSPI.html.

– Affiliated Faculty, UW Canadian Studies Center Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, https://jsis.washington.edu/canada/

– Chair, UW wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ Intellectual House Planning Committee, http://www.washington.edu/diversity/tribal-relations/intellectual-house/committee-members/.

– Chair,”The Living Breath of wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ” Indigenous Foods and Ecological Knowledge Symposium Planning Committee,www.facebook.com/UWLivingBreath?fref=ts.

– Co-Editor, Indigenous Confluences Series, UW Press, http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/books/series/SeriesIC.html.

– President, Potlatch Fund, http://www.potlatchfund.org/.

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Seattle Milk Fund provides child care grants and family support to low-income, full-time students at approved King, Pierce and Snohomish County colleges and universities. While parents are in school, their children receive a valuable learning opportunity in a licensed, quality child care facility or preschool. Seattle Milk Fund helps parents realize their higher education potential, which can create a brighter and more stable financial future for their families.

As one of Washington’s longest-running charitable organizations, Seattle Milk Fund has been fueling families’ futures since 1907. Parents can receive up to $2000.00 each quarter/per child, depending on the age of your child(ren) and the cost of your child care, and family support throughout the year.

For more info and eligibility requirements:  https://www.seattlemilkfund.org/requirements/

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The WSSCSW has partnered with Seattle U’s School of Social Work to be able to welcome licensed clinical social worker Vanessa Jackson, MSW from Atlanta, Georgia! Ms Jackson is an author, therapist and trainer. In addition to her therapy practice with clients, she is passionate about supporting activists to create healthy balanced lives.

October 20, 2018

Transforming Powerlessness Into Power:

Emancipatory practices for healing trauma in activists and other woke folks

Co-Sponsored by the WSSCSW and SU School of Social Work

Central to Ms. Jackson’s work is an analysis of power. In our conference she will explore the importance of “power literacy” when working with marginalized communities and their allies. She will offer attendees a framework of the Seven Healing Questions to support exploration into how power impacts our functioning, our relationships and our capacity to maintain a state of emotional well-being.

I think that Ms Jackson’s work will be a great next learning step to follow the last two conferences: on racial literacy with Robin DiAngelo and Deborah Terry-Hays last spring and then the feminist therapy perspective on culturally competent trauma work with Laura Brown this last fall.

I hope you will join me this October to learn with Vanessa Jackson, your fellow WSSCSW members, social work students from UW and SU and other interested therapists. See you there!

Registration is open now!

As always, discounts are offered for members, associate members, and students.

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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.

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Paid focus group about stress for trans/non-binary folks, please forward/share freely

Hi folks! My name is Vern (they) and I am a social work doc student at UW. I am helping out Natasha out with her dissertation study. She is a Psych student in California who works with trans clients and does trans advocacy work. We are recruiting trans/enby etc folks for focus groups, and you will be compensated for your time. Feel free to let trans/enby friends know about this 🙂 I know that we are burdened with research studies because we’re ‘trendy’ all of a sudden, but I truly believe in this project, am a real live trans person myself, and the time is compensated with a stipend and snacks.

The information gathered by this study will be used to inform practitioners (by way of poster/conference presentation and paper publication) about the ways trans folks experience stress. I am also committed to making sure research findings are accessible to community members and organizations, so always find alternative ways to make information accessible (primarily through my website and resources I create that are publicly available, classes I teach, organizations I volunteer or consult with, etc). Additionally, community/academic partners are shown on the flier. Natasha and I are both happy to answer any questions about the study, how the information will be used, etc–as she’s the lead, I might defer to her, depending on the question/concern.

Seeking Trans and Non-Binary Adults for Interview Study

▪Do you identify as trans, non-binary or genderqueer?
▪ Are you comfortable talking to a group about your experiences with stress?
▪ Would you like to help with a dissertation research project?

This study involves one 2-2.5 hour visit to the Equal Rights Washington office in Seattle in early May. Participants are offered $25 payment for their time spent in a focus group discussion.

To be eligible, you must: 1) Identify as transgender
and/or non-binary/genderqueer (see note below); 2) Be at least 18 years of age; 3) Speak, read, and write in English.

For more information please contact:
Natasha Gadinsky, (415) 964-0362, Natashag@stanford.edu

*If you are unsure if this includes you, please call Natasha Gadinsky to ask.

Independent Contact: If you are not satisfied with how this study is being conducted, or if you have any concerns, complaints, or general questions about the research or your rights as a participant, please contact the Stanford Institutional Review Board (IRB) to speak to someone independent of the research team at (650)-723-5244 or toll free at 1-866-680-2906.

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Spring is local scholarship season and there are several upcoming scholarship deadlines for students to be considering. Our office is also hosting a plethora of scholarship-related workshops and information sessions for students gearing up for the coming onslaught of post-grad and grad school scholarships and admission season. Please share this information with students in all fields.

Examples of Upcoming Scholarship Deadlines: (find more in our database)

— UW Women’s Center Meena Vashee Scholarship is awarded to one individual each year who is a survivor of domestic violence or the child of a survivor. You must be a UW undergraduate student to apply. The scholarship is awarded in the amount of $2000. The 2018/2019 scholarship application is now available Apply by April 21!

— UW’s Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies awards an average of $100,000 or more a year to students and faculty at the University of Washington. Annual scholarships and fellowships support students passionate about the study of labor and labor activism, while the Best Paper Prize honors quality scholarship on labor issues produced by students. Apply by April 23!

— Mortar Board Alumni/Tolo Foundation annually provides over $40,000 in total scholarships each year to rising and current UW sophomores, juniors, seniors, and graduate students based on their demonstration of Mortar Board’s ideals of exceptional scholarship, leadership, and service on campus and in the community. Apply by April 23!

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Green Dot is a national research-based program that confronts behaviors associated with power-based personal violence like stalking, harassment, and sexual assault. It relies on the community to take responsibility for increasing care and vigilance by getting us to look out for each other in the world and take action to prevent violence. We would love to have you join us Saturday, April 28th from 10-1 for an active bystander training!

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#MeToo and Beyond: Round Table Discussion

In partnership with SARVA, the Women’s Center is hosting a panel & roundtable discussion highlighting diverse perspectives of and experiences with #metoo. Panelists and guests are invited to engage in conversation on how to create a more inclusive #metoo movement.

Location
UW Seattle Campus
Husky Union Building
Room 332

Date & Time
Tuesday April 24th, 2018
3:30-5:00 pm

Event is free but space is limited: please RSVP ASAP
For details see Facebook Event

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Practicing Disability Allyship Workshop

Wednesday April 25th at 3PM – 4:30PM

Mary Gates Hall Room 058

Like many communities working for social justice, allyship is a key tenant of how the disability community can continue to demand justice, equality and understanding.

Please join Dr. Heather Evans from UW’s Disability Studies Program and D Center staff, Lily Zimmerman, Arden Weaver and Lesley Ellis for an interactive workshop on how to practice disability allyship.

We will share ways to celebrate and support disabled people and disability communities working in disability justice, allowing space for reflection and understanding of the central issues. We also welcome disabled students, staff and faculty to join the workshop to contribute to the conversation if they wish.

Accessibility: MGH 058 is mobility aid accessible and scent free space. Please do not wear any fragrances. CART captioning and ASL interpreting have been requested. For any other access inquiries please email dcenter@uw.edu

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No Husky should go hungry

The UW Campus Food Pantry envisions a UW community wherein success is not impeded by hunger.

The Campus Food Pantry allows UW students, staff, and faculty to be supplied with nonperishable groceries and select fresh produce for no cost. Anyone with a Husky ID is eligible to receive support. The Pantry uses a pop-up model with locations in HUB 214 and the Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center, and runs once a month at each site. They also take drop-in appointments for those in urgent need of assistance who cannot attend a pop-up, uwpantry@uw.edu or 206-543-4972.

Questions about the Campus Food Pantry, donations, food drives and volunteering: uwpantry@uw.edu

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