This year, NoHLA is celebrating 20 years of working to improve access to health care for all Washington residents and fighting to make health a human right. First up, NoHLA’s Health Care at the Movies features The Providers, an award-winning documentary, followed by a panel discussion with local leaders that explores the challenges low-income and rural families face while trying to access health care.

NoHLA 20th Anniversary Event: Health Care at the Movie
March 14, 2019, 6 pm @ UW Ethnic Cultural Theater
3931 Brooklyn Avenue NE, Seattle 98105

GET YOUR FREE TICKETS 

While the event is free, donations to support NoHLA’s advocacy are encouraged

Set against the backdrop of the physician shortage and opioid epidemic in rural America, The Providers follows healthcare providers who work safety-net clinics that offer care to all who walk through the doors, regardless of ability to pay. With intimate access, the documentary shows the transformative power of providers’ relationships with marginalized patients who would otherwise be left out of the healthcare system.

After the short film, we’ll host a panel discussion, featuring:

• Janet Varon, Executive Director, NoHLA
• Aaron Katz, Principal Lecturer, UW Department of Health Services
• Laura Green & Anna Moot-Levin, Directors & Producers, The Providers (via Skype)

Our event is held in collaboration with the Social Justice Film Institute and thank you also to the University of Washington School of Public Health for their support.
Please join us and help spread the word by forwarding this email. Reserve your free tickets here!

All the best,

Alisa
NoHLA Board Member

See attached flyer for more information.

Diversity Week Information

 

The mid-career graduate program (MA in Applied International Studies) is hosting a Crisis Negotiation Simulation in partnership with the U.S. Army War College during spring quarter 2019. This year’s ISCNE is set against the backdrop of an Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit. The meeting has been called to negotiate an end to the conflict in the South China Sea.

Ambassador Thomas Pickering, who served as the U.S. Ambassador and Representative to the United Nations and as the U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation, India, Israel, El Salvador, Nigeria, and Jordan will act as the Head of ASEAN.

This is a unique, hands-on experience in crisis management and negotiation, which offers opportunities to engage with high-level diplomats, business executives and military leaders. The course is open to both graduate and undergraduate students as well as faculty and staff and led by Professor Robert Pekkanen.

There are multiple enrollment options, please see website for more details.

VIVA!

Our next and last meeting of the quarter is scheduled for March 7, 2019 from 1-2pm in Room 306.

VIVA! is a group that works to amplify the voice, visibility and skills of Latinx students at the School of Social Work. We welcome BSW’s, MSW’s, PhD students, faculty and staff to our meetings.

If students have any questions, they can email us at sswviva@gmail.com.

UW SSW VIVA!

Representatives:

Ana Magaña, MSWc

Abby Aparicio, MSWc

We won’t let a little snow hold us back! With a new date, MONDAY, MARCH 4^th, we’re making sure our quarterly Pop-Up Cafe tradition continues!
Come join us at the School of Social Work for our winter pop-up cafe event focusing on youth and young adult homelessness advocacy.

Start your Monday off right with free lunch and coffee!

Join us for:
12:30 – Advocacy 101 Training with Nancy Amidei
1:00 – Advocacy Panel featuring Seattle leaders in housing and homelessness

Stick around for:
Re-Writing the Media Narrative on Homelessness
Community Cafe Design
Networking with U District Service Providers and Organizations

 

You are invited to the

9th Annual Womxn Who Rock (un)Conference

Dance the Archive: Memoria Ancestral

Free and all ages!

WHEN: March 16, 2019 (Sat.), 2-5pm

WHERE: Centilia Cultural Center: 1660 S Roberto Maestas Festival St, Seattle, WA, 98144

REGISTRATION (Opens Feb 20): https://bit.ly/2DXj6AW

FACEBOOK EVENT: https://www.facebook.com/events/2910365282521445/

WEBSITE: https://womenwhorockcommunity.org

Womxn Who Rock: Making Scenes, Building Communities (un)Conference brings scholars, musicians, performers, visual artists, media-makers, community leaders and activists together to explore the role of womxn in the creation of popular music that anchors cultural scenes and social justice movements.

This year we gather to acknowledge the value of community, the power of circle dance as a protective container, and rhythm as our connector. Memoria Ancestral is our archive of embodied knowledge that holds, transmits, and performs relational information to create and renew narratives of belonging for the survival of generations across space and time.

Afro-Latinx maestras of the traditions of bomba (Puerto Rico) and son jarocho (Veracruz, Mexico) will guide participants through movements and rhythms that tap into the vast resources of women’s creativity, compassion, skillful communication, self-reflection and collective healing.

Featuring special guest maestras: Ivelisse Diaz, Milvia Pacheco,

Dr. Jade Power Sotomayor, Amarilys Rios,and Iris Viveros.

The year’s event will feature:

– a participatory rhythm and movement skill-share

– a dialogue about the healing power of rhythm and dance

– children’s station and button making

– Puerto Rican bomba workshop and batay

– craft and clothing vendors, food vendors

– and more

If you’d like to volunteer the day of the event, please contact Michelle Habell-Pallán at mhabellp@uw.edu

We look forward to celebrating with you!

Carrie Lanza, on behalf of the Womxn Who Rock Collective

Funding opportunities from the UW Center for Human Rights:

 

We are pleased to announce three different funding opportunities through the Center for Human Rights for graduate and undergraduate students from all three UW campuses. US citizenship/permanent resident status is not required.

 

1. Dr. Lisa Sable Brown Endowed Fund for Human Rights. $1900 available. Graduate students only (including professional studies). For studies or (thesis/capstone) research.

2. Peter Mack and Jamie Mayerfeld Endowed Fund for Human Rights. $4000 available. Graduate students only (including professional studies). For studies or (these/capstone) research.

3. Abe Osheroff and Gunnel Clark Endowed Human Rights Fund. $4000 available. Undergraduate and graduate students (including professional studies). For hands-on human rights project through direct action.

 

Applications are due on March 29, 2019 at 5:00 PM PST.

 

More info at: https://jsis.washington.edu/humanrights/funds/

 

We’re happy to talk to students about whether their projects may or may not be a good fit and answer any questions they may have (contact uwchr@uw.edu).

It’s tax time again … and Student Fiscal Services is once again holding 1098T tax classes for students. I have also attached a poster about upcoming tax classes that you can post. Please forward this email to your student lists, as appropriate. Thanks! Kyra

Student Tax class for US Resident Students:

2/27/2019 2pm – 3pm

Odegaard Library, room 220

You’ve received your 1098T tax form! Student Fiscal Services is presenting this workshop to help US Resident students understand the information on the 1098T tax form. This class will go into detail as to how the 1098T tax form relates to education tax credits and tax issues regarding scholarships and grants. This class is appropriate for undergraduate, graduate and professional students. The class is free of charge and you do not have to register to attend.

Space is still available at the Cheerful Givers Volunteer Event on Wednesday, Feb. 27, from 12-1 p.m. in the UW Tower Cafeteria.

The UW Combined Fund Drive and The Whole U are cohosting a Birthday Bag Blitz with Cheerful Givers, a nonprofit organization that provides birthday gift bags to children who otherwise wouldn’t receive a birthday present on their birthday! The bags will be donated to Mary’s Place in Seattle for children in our community.

To register for this event, a $15 minimum donation is required to cover the expense of the toys, bags, ribbons and stickers, and will provide birthday gifts to 312 children!

If you wish to donate via payroll deduction, register for payroll deduction here. If you prefer to make a credit card donation, register for credit card donation here.

We look forward to making 312 happy birthdays this year!

Hello!

KOMO News is producing a NATIONAL town hall on opioid abuse. It is set to air on March 7^th here at our studios, 140 4^th Avenue North, Seattle, WA 98109.  We will tape at approx. 2pm and be finished by 3pm.
We are hoping to invite STUDENTS to the discussion, students from your school and surrounding campuses.  We would hope to seat about 10-15 of your students.

Our audience will be able to ask questions of our guests and hosts.

A little about the show…. It’s an hour-long discussion of the Opioid Crisis affecting all Americans.  This important Opioid Town Hall is a national epidemic that has touched every one of the communities that we serve.  It will be hosted by Eric Bolling. Eric and his wife Adrienne lost their son to an accidental opioid overdose. Since then, Eric has been on the front lines, battling the Opioid Crisis in America. This Town Hall continues our commitment to help local communities stop the growth of this epidemic. Our goal is to not only raise awareness but focus on finding solutions to this epidemic, which is a national health crisis.

9th Annual Womxn Who Rock (un)Conference
Dance the Archive: Memoria Ancestral

Free and all ages!

WHEN: March 16, 2019 (Sat.), 2-5pm
WHERE: Centilia Cultural Center: 1660 S Roberto Maestas Festival St, Seattle, WA, 98144
REGISTRATION (Opens Feb 20): https://bit.ly/2DXj6AW
FACEBOOK EVENT: https://www.facebook.com/events/2910365282521445/
WEBSITE: https://womenwhorockcommunity.org

Womxn Who Rock: Making Scenes, Building Communities (un)Conference brings scholars, musicians, performers, visual artists, media-makers, community leaders and activists together to explore the role of womxn in the creation of popular music that anchors cultural scenes and social justice movements.

This year we gather to acknowledge the value of community, the power of circle dance as a protective container, and rhythm as our connector. Memoria Ancestral is our archive of embodied knowledge that holds, transmits, and performs relational information to create and renew narratives of belonging for the survival of generations across space and time.

Afro-Latinx maestras of the traditions of bomba (Puerto Rico) and son jarocho (Veracruz, Mexico) will guide participants through movements and rhythms that tap into the vast resources of women’s creativity, compassion, skillful communication, self-reflection and collective healing.

Featuring special guest maestras: Ivelisse Diaz, Milvia Pacheco,
Dr. Jade Power Sotomayor, Amarilys Rios,and Iris Viveros.

The year’s event will feature

• A participatory rhythm and movement skill-share
• A dialogue about the healing power of rhythm and dance
• Children’s station and button making
• Puerto Rican bomba workshop and batay
• Craft and clothing vendors, food vendors
• And more

If you’d like to volunteer the day of the event, please contact Michelle Habell-Pallán at mhabellp@uw.edu

We look forward to celebrating with you!

Carrie Lanza, on behalf of the Womxn Who Rock Collective

Roots Deeper Than Whiteness: Building emotional strength and political clarity for collective liberation
Online Course with White Awake
Facilitators: Eleanor Hancock and David Dean
https://mailchi.mp/whiteawake/roots-deeper-than-whiteness-2019-online-course-1765469
“One of the problems that most afflicts this country is that white people don’t know who they are or where they come from.”  – James Baldwin

Roots Deeper Than Whiteness is an online course for people socially classified as white who seek greater emotional resilience and political understanding in their work against racism and for a better future for all.

The course centers the hidden histories of how our ancestors’ ethnic identities and liberatory politics were replaced with a false “white” racial identity designed to turn them against their allies of color and make them compliant with the agenda of the ruling class. Through reflection and embodied exercises, we will work together to replace feelings of shame or reactivity to the discussion of racism with resilience and memory of our ancestral stories. From this rooted place, the course will support participants in developing action plans to integrate this learning and healing into their work for social change.

This workshop is designed to help you:

• Reduce shame as it relates to white guilt and/or reactivity around the topic of race and racism
• Gain historical knowledge and political analysis that illuminates the role “white” people have been groomed to play in society at large, and helps you carefully choose a different path
• Develop deeper love, acceptance, and understanding of yourself and your ancestors, while gaining greater capacity to face the role white people have played in causing harm
• Learn tools for resourcing yourself that can help you stay healthy and engaged in social change, and increase your capacity for effective alliances with indigenous people and folks of color
• Develop an action plan that builds on the work of this class to support your engagement in social movements for collective liberation.

– This course is a white caucus. For more information about this, see our ground rules for live session participation. –

Feb 24, March 3, March 17, and March 24 
5-7pm ET (2-4pm PT)

Sliding scale $75-125 fee for course
No one turned away for lack of funds

 

Click here to register on our site
Sessions will be recorded. Live attendance is not mandatory.

This will be a great opportunity to hear Dr. Edwin Lindo speak on how our current healthcare system impacts access to care across various populations based on race, sexual orientation, immigration status, among others. In addition, Dr. Lindo will be outlining how a Medicare for All system may positively or negatively impact these issues.

These are important topics to consider and discuss in light of the new Medicare-for-All bill that will be introduced [soon] by Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA-7).

Who: Anyone interested in healthcare disparities, intersectionality, Medicare for All, and healthcare reform
What: Speaker presentation & discussion with Dr. Edwin Lindo, Single Payer intro by SNaHP
Where: T-435
When: Monday, February 25th, 5:45-7:00 PM

Please RSVP here for food (Indicate any dietary restrictions!):
https://www.wejoinin.com/sheets/rnrrc?fbclid=IwAR0fKrYIYxdp306QObkuXm2TXjq6StdHHyukqpUdwIISMK7wOphOgzFZfN0

Because T-435 is not a zoom capable room, the event will not be streamed.

We would appreciate your continued help in getting the word out to graduate and professional students from the UW’s three campuses to apply for the Husky Seed Fund by forwarding this reminder.  Successful applicants will be awarded up to $5,000.  

The Fund was created by students, for students to support innovative ideas that will enhance the UW student experience. For projects to be considered, they need to be impactful, inclusive, and inventive. Last year’s second round of funding resulted in Husky ADAPT, Speak Freely and UW OpenSidewalks. We hope to build on that success in this third year.

I cordially invite you to an information session about becoming involved with Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) at University of Washington. Refreshments provided!

What is Alternatives to Violence Project?

AVP is a grassroots organization that conducts experiential workshops on increasing communication skills, resolving conflict, and building community. The workshops were developed by civil rights leader Bernard Lafayette, peace activists, and prisoners who had been relocated following the Attica prison riot in 1971. Workshops are now held in prisons, schools, and communities across the globe—including Rwanda, Guatemala, and right here in Seattle. AVP suffers a bit from a name problem, as it is beneficial for everyone—not just folks associated with physical violence.

This is an information session about becoming involved with AVP and, if you so desire, becoming a group facilitator for workshops in prisons and in the community.

Who would be interested in getting involved with AVP at UW?

Anyone who wants to…

• Learn group facilitation skills
• Increase their communication and conflict resolution skill
• Work with individuals involved in the criminal justice system
• Learn about an intervention to address the school-to-prison pipeline
• Participate in transformative change

The information session will be on Monday March 4^th at 6:30pm in Paccar Hall (the business school), room 192, from 6:30-7:30pm

Members of the affordable housing industry make several educational scholarships available to people receiving housing assistance. Seattle Housing Authority residents and voucher participants, who want to pursue college degrees or post-secondary certificates can apply for these scholarships.

https://shar.es/amWWG7

You are invited to watch a public screening of the new documentary “To Err Is Human” on March 14^th at 6pm in UW Medical Center’s Hogness Auditorium. The movie is free, but attendance is limited to 200.

About the film: The #3 leading cause of death in the US is its own health care system, with medical mistakes leading to as many as 440,000 preventable deaths every year. Yet most Americans are unaware of the existence of this problem. To Err Is Human is an in-depth documentary about this silent epidemic and those working quietly behind the scenes to fix it.

Through interviews with leaders in healthcare, footage of real-world efforts leading to safer care, and one family’s compelling journey from tragedy to triumph, the documentary provides a unique look at our healthcare system’s ongoing fight against preventable harm.

Directed by Michael Eisenberg, the son of late patient safety pioneer Dr. John M. Eisenberg, To Err is Human is named after the groundbreaking 1999 report by the Institute of Medicine (now National Academy of Medicine). Film website: www.toerrishumanfilm.com.

When:                  Thursday, March 14, 2019

Time:                    6:00 PM, PST

Run time:            90 minutes, discussion led by Dr. Thomas Gallagher to follow film

Location:             University of Washington Medical Center

Hogness Auditorium, (Room A-420)

1959 NE Pacific Street

Seattle, WA 98195

Cost: Free

Registration:      Mandatory.

Register at:  to-err-is-human-wpsc-uw-screening.eventbrite.com

Presented by UW Medicine, the UW Center for Health Sciences Interprofessional Education, Research and Practice and The Washington Patient Safety Coalition.

Spring 2019
Critical Race Theory & Medicine (1 credit)
FAMED 550A
Tuesdays, 5:30-6:30pm
SLN:21149
For add code email instructor at eglindo@uw.edu.

Course Description:

This course provides an introductory survey of Critical Race Theory and other Critical Studies frameworks to help us understand Race and Racism and their applicability to medicine and their effects on marginalized communities. In this course we will explore the necessities of critiquing and bettering medicine through a Critical Race Theory lens, with the goal of eliminating bias and decreasing health disparities within marginalized communities.

Instructor:
Edwin G. Lindo, JD
(he/him/his)
Lecturer
Department of Family Medicine
Associate Director, Critical Teaching and Equity
CLIME (Center For Leadership And Innovation in Medical Education)
University of Washington | School of Medicine
Health Sciences E-304 | Box 356390 | Seattle, WA 98195
206.685.7438 | eglindo@uw.edu

How Pregnancy, Poverty, and Race Shaped Surveillance and Control in Domestic Food Assistance Programs “

Annie McGlynn-Wright

UW Sociology

Monday, February 25th
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
*Q&A until 2:00 pm

School of Social Work, Room 305A

Abstract: This paper examines the disparate trajectories of two U.S. food assistance programs: the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women Infants and Children (WIC). One simple question orients the paper: Why did WIC and SNAP take divergent approaches to participant dietary restrictions?  Using comparative historical methods, this paper draws upon congressional records, presidential records, USDA documents, and media from 1961 to 1972. I argue that racialized conceptions of the poor as ignorant and unable to make healthy food decisions dominated early discussions about WIC and the Food Stamp Program. However, rhetoric about the WIC program also contained concerns that poor dietary choices were detrimental to fetal and infant health. As a result, pregnant women’s rights were restricted as the government chose to act in loco parentis—making strides to strip WIC recipients of decision-making power otherwise granted to Food Stamp recipients. The paper offers that pregnancy, in addition to other statuses, is critical in understanding how control and surveillance become infused in means-tested social welfare programs.

See link for events:  Celebrate Black History Month at UW with events throughout February

Also:

Winter Quarter Social Justice Film Series
WHERE: Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center Lobby
Each Wednesday evening, 6:30pm

Movie Line Up (tentative):
2.20 The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross
2.27 Dark Girls
3.6 Ladies First
3.13 Neerja

https://depts.washington.edu/ecc/event/winter-quarter-social-justice-film-series/?instance_id=74&_ga=2.150435504.769612318.1550083216-1034714354.1540498766

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