Writing a Teaching Statement workshop

October 23, 3:30-5:00, @Gerberding Hall 142

Discover what teaching statements can look like, how to develop one (even if you have never been a TA), review examples, and brainstorm with peers.

Register at tinyurl.com/workshop-oct23

Join the Washington Fair Trade Coalition and community allies to mark the 20th Anniversary of the WTO Protests! We will start off the day with a rally at Occidental Park from 10:00-12:00pm, which will feature a number of speakers that will discuss where we have been in trade and where we are now, and where we want to be in 20 years.

Later in the day, at 3:00pm, the event will continue at Seattle Town Hall where there will be nine trade justice workshops that will cover how trade affects and intersect with a number of key issues facing our global community today.

The workshops will cover how trade organizing has impacted:

Environment, Labor, Public Health, Immigration, Indigenous Sovereignty and Extractive Industries, People Powered Movements since 1999, Food Sovereignty, Tech and Data, and Militarism.

We will end the event at 7:30pm with our keynote speaker Joseph Stiglitz, an American economist, public policy analyst, and a professor at Columbia University. Stiglitz is known in trade organizing circles for his critical view of the management of globalization, laissez-faire economics and international institutions such as the World Trade Organization, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank.

The keynote will also include a brief Action Orientation with Lori Wallach, the director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch. This orientation will cover the trajectory of the trade movement since 1999.

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Submit content now for Children’s Justice event

The Children’s Justice Conference has issued its annual call for content for the 2020 event set for May 11-12 in Spokane.

The CJC attracts approximately 1,200 to 1,500 attendees every year with the mission of ensuring every professional who has contact with a child has the necessary training and skills to properly assess, investigate, and prosecute child maltreatment.

Content requested spans many topics and can be in the form of a presentation, case study, panel discussion or hands-on training. The deadline is Dec. 13. See full guidelines and requirements on the website.

All submissions will be collected electronically. Contact Paul Seabaugh, paul.seabaugh at dcyf.wa.gov, with questions regarding proposal submissions.

Important dates

• Dec. 13: Submission window closes
• Jan. 24: Accepted submissions notified
• April 27: Session handout materials due

More information

For information about submitting a workshop proposal: https://web.cvent.com/event/a1ebf2f7-635a-41d3-b79f-41e516f753c6/websitePage:4693e299-55c0-4db3-8c94-fd2b5c2d2a38

Learn more about the conference: <http://www.dcyfcjc.com/>

My name is Cheyenne Stolmeier, and I work with United Way of King County’s Free Tax Preparation Campaign. You have probably already heard about our Volunteer Tax Preparer opportunity, but we have another very exciting volunteer opportunity that would be perfect for your students. With the 2020 Census coming up, our Census and Benefits Navigators will also serve as a resource for community members to get information and help while completing their Census Questionnaires. Would you please share the below opportunity with students and colleagues?

“In addition to preparing taxes, United Way’s Free Tax Preparation Campaign helps to connect individuals and families to savings opportunities and public benefits they may not have known were available to them. This year, volunteers will also have the exciting opportunity to ensure clients are prepared to accurately and confidently complete the 2020 Census Questionnaire. This is an exciting and hugely important role that will help guarantee an accurate representation of our communities, particularly in already marginalized populations, such as immigrant communities and communities of color. An accurate count and representation will help ensure that critical public resources remain available for those who rely on them most.

United Way’s Free Tax Campaign has been making a huge impact in the community for the last 17 years, and we need your help to see it grow. Volunteers can pick from 33 tax sites throughout King County! There’s bound to be a site conveniently located near your home, work, or school!

Our volunteers develop practical skills, network with community, and most importantly, make a huge, tangible impact. Last year, our volunteers secured $30.1 million in refunds for the community and made over 4,000 referrals to additional services like financial coaching, Basic Food, and utility discount programs. This year, our goal is to reach 25,000 clients, and we need your help to make it happen!

The volunteer commitment is only 3-4 hours week from January to April. We provide free, comprehensive training. To get more information and register, students can visit www.uwkc.org/taxvolunteer. Please also share this with friends and peers!”

If you are interested, I would be more than happy to meet with you in person, speak over the phone, or even speak briefly with your students in class. Whatever it takes to fully support your students in making the most of this opportunity, I can do. Let me know if you would like flyers or posters sent to you.

I look forward to working with you, and I hope to hear from you soon.

Best Regards,

Cheyenne Stolmeier (She/Her/Hers)
Tax Campaign Associate
United Way of King County
cstolmeier@uwkc.org
206-461-8544

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Title: Grieving, Angry and Scared: Clinical Implications of Climate Change

When: November 20, 2019, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM

Who: Andrew Bryant, MPH, LICSW

Where: UW School of Social Work, Rm 305 A/B
(Map: https://goo.gl/maps/fvbEBWLfqUxVmFad8)

Link to Registration: https://www.wsscsw.org/event-3509768

Description: As climate change becomes more evident, we, and our clients, face the possibility of an unknown and unstable future. In response to increased awareness and concern, clients may present with a range of existential, climate-specific responses involving anxiety, depression, trauma, guilt, and despair.

Mental health professionals are called upon to assist clients in coping with very reasonable fears and fear responses; and to help them find meaning and purpose in the face of a frightening future. In this clinical evening, we will explore research and interventions related to climate psychology; and we will have a dialogue about the challenges clinicians face in working with these themes.

Continuing Education: 1.5 credits

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify the ways in which climate change impacts mental health and community health.
2. Identify the ways in which vulnerable populations are most likely to suffer from climate-related mental health issues.
3. Identify therapeutic techniques for helping clients deal with climate-induced anxiety, depression and grief.

We’re excited to inform you that the National Academies for Science, Engineering, and Medicine’s (NASEM) Action Collaborative on Preventing Sexual Harassment will be meeting on UW’s campus November 19^th and 20^th. This is a collection of over 40 universities (including UW) who are raising awareness, sharing evidence, and contributing to a research-based agenda on reducing sexual harassment (http://sites.nationalacademies.org/sites/sexualharassmentcollaborative/index.htm). I am a member of UW’s Advisory Workgroup related to this effort. I’m writing because we are looking for volunteers who are willing to help with the summit on November 19^th (8am-5pm) and/or 20^th (8am – 12:15pm). If you are available one or both of those days, please contact Paula Nurius (nurius@uw.edu) and she will forward your information to the volunteer coordinator. Thank you!

Greetings!

You are cordially invited to attend the annual PhD Program Open House on Wednesday, November 6th from 5:00pm – 6:30pm in the School of Social Work Room 305AB! As we are now in the midst of admissions season, we are offering the opportunity for prospective applicants to meet with current doctoral students and faculty to learn more about the PhD in Social Welfare program.

Please kindly forward this PhD in Social Welfare Open House announcement to your networks as well.  Thank you in advance for helping us spread the word about our event!

For further inquiries about the event, please feel free to contact me at creang@uw.edu or 206.685.1680.

Are you a current PhD or MFA student? Perhaps a Post-Doc? Join GO-MAP for a special event with the Rochester Institute of Technology!

Come to the Communications Building in Room 302 on October 18th from 1 pm-2pm or 2:30pm-3:30pm to hear from the wonderful Dr. Donathan Brown, Assistant Provost, Assistant Vice President and Associate Professor in the Office of Faculty Diversity and Recruitment at Rochester Institute of Technology.

We will be discussing tips and advice on applying for faculty roles, ways to enhance your cover letter for search committees, faculty job opportunities at the Rochester Institute of Technology, and more!

There will be two separate sessions:

1. 1PM-2PM
2. 2:30-3:30PM

Make sure you sign up for either session when reserving your spot
by clicking on the button below!
RSVP for the RIT event here >

 

Don’t miss out on the first Power Hour this quarter with Dr. Clarence Spigner.

Dr. Spigner, who studies race and society, will facilitate an interactive discussion entitled: Thriving in Graduate School- 10 Tips for Graduate Students of Color. The presentation will focus on the following tips:

• Less obsessing on grades
• Staying within program requirements
• Not changing career paths
• Reading everything even if it doesn’t always stick
• Increasing writing skills
• Acknowledging the staff
• Reaching beyond the program
• Not getting side-tracked
• Maintaining physical/social/emotional health
• Always looking-out for each other.

RSVP for Power Hour here >

Come chat & let’s get real at the first Real Talk Tuesday of the quarter!
Join us on October 22 in CMU 129 from 12:30PM-2:00PM.

GO-MAP and the Center for Communication, Difference, and Equity (CCDE) join together to organize Real Talk Tuesdays (RTT) — a safe space to engage in real talk about issues that impact graduate students of color.

In these biweekly conversations, you bring the topic and we’ll talk about it. The discussions are organic and nurturing for the participants.
Also, come hungry- there will be pizza!
RSVP for RTT here >
 

FIUTS Global Ambassador Day will be next Friday, October 25^th 11am-3pm. Any UW international student who is interested in teaching a fun and interactive lesson about their home country and culture in a local elementary school should sign up at www.fiuts.org/gad-signup by this Thursday, October 17^th. Lesson planning support, transportation, and a light lunch are all provided.

When is the last time you really took a day to focus on yourself, reduce stress, connect with your body and mind, and set intentions for the months ahead?

Whether it was yesterday, it’s been a while, or even never…we know that any amount of mindfulness has exponential benefits. Invest in yourself by setting aside time to be mindful and explore meditation.

There is something to gain from mindfulness for all people, so take a chance! Give yourself this precious time and see what mindfulness all is about at a special UW retreat right on the water.

Moving Inwards: Introspection, Creativity, and Sweet Connection (a day-long retreat)
Saturday, October 26
UW Waterfront Activities Center

You will:

• Acknowledge the gifts that are currently present in your world
• Move your body through simple movements to increase circulation and breath flow
• Utilize meditative techniques (loving-kindness meditation, breath mediation, body scan relaxation, and journaling) to move inside and gain more clarity
• Spend a little time creating an inspirational collage as a tool that will support your intentions and focus
• Connect with other like-minded individuals within the UW community
• Take time out from your daily routines to rest, rejuvenate, and savor physical and mental spaciousness

The retreat costs a flat rate of only $45! A portion of the proceeds goes to offering students with financial need discounted quarterly mindfulness passes.

Learn more and register here!

Investing in yourself in one of the best things you can do, give mindfulness a chance and join us.

“From Waiting to Burning: Hong Kong in 2014 and 2019”
October 21 @ 5:00 pm, Gowen Hall 201
Speaker: Professor Lai Kwan Pang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

This talk first brings us back five years ago when the Umbrella Movement, the biggest and most peaceful one among all other occupy movements globally, unfolded in Hong Kong, generating a rich surge of creativity and also boundless frustrations. The political demands were fallen on deaf ears, but occupiers developed sincere bonding among each other, and they lived the central democratic idea of cohabitation. Five years after, when the hope for democracy is simply denied, the Hong Kong protesters are seemingly discarding their hard-earned democratic logic to embrace a more violent confrontational logic. But democracy is still at the core in the soul of this city, probably more so than most liberal-democratic countries.

Seats are limited, please RSVP here.

Please join us for the Othello-UW Commons October Open House.

Othello-UW Commons Open House RSVP

 

Hello all,

Our Southern Lushootseed Language Table is back and will begin today (Thursday, October 10^th) 4:30-6:00pm in Thomson Hall 335. The table is open to all, including members of the community, you don’t have to be affiliated with the UW to attend. Anyone can drop in for the language table any time. No previous experience necessary. You can come for just one meeting or every week through the end of the quarter. We guarantee you’ll leave with basic pronunciation principles, useful everyday phrases, and some new friends.

You can find the event on Facebook as well. Please share as you see fit and let me know if you have any questions.

All the best,

Kai Wise

Academic Adviser
Department of American Indian Studies | Phone 206.543.9082 |  kaiwise@uw.edu  |  www.ais.washington.edu

 

 

October 17, 2019

School of Social Work, Room 305

5:00-5:30 p.m. Registration with light refreshments
5:30-7:00 p.m. Presentation

RSVP: https://events.uw.edu/c/express/d5d2a69c-38ed-495d-8ca6-415f8d43f8b8

Over the past forty years, “the end of life” has become the center of extensive economic, policy, ethical, and medical discussions. Health economists measure and evaluate its cost; ethicists debate the morality of various approaches to “end-of-life care”; policymakers ponder alternative “end of life”-related policies; and clinicians apply a specialized approach (hospice and palliative care) to treat patients whom they diagnose as being at “the end of life.” This talk analyzes the proliferation of conversations on “the end of life” as emblematic of a peculiar moment in human history.

Roi Livne is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Michigan. Values at the End of Life will be available for purchase at the event.

 

Dear UW students, faculty, and staff,

You are cordially invited to attend a UW Resilience Lab event – “A World of Strength” – about cultural understandings of resilience on Thursday, October 17, 4:30-6:00 p.m. in The Great Room at Maple Hall (UW Seattle campus).

International students will share stories of stamina, strength and ultimately success in the face of adversity from their home cultures and at the UW. This event will also feature opportunities for participants to reflect on and discuss what resilience means within their own story and in various contexts. Join us to learn about cultural strategies for success and expand your understanding of resilience.

This event is free and open to the UW community (with light appetizers, coffee, and tea available); it is co-sponsored by the UW Resilience Lab, CIRCLE, International & English Language Programs, Housing and Food Services, and FIUTS. We invite and encourage all UW students (international and domestic) to come and share their perspectives. Faculty and staff are also welcome to join.

We hope to see you there!

 

Greetings!

You are cordially invited to attend the annual PhD Program Open House on Wednesday, November 6th from 5:00pm – 6:30pm in the School of Social Work Room 305AB! As we are now in the midst of admissions season, we are offering the opportunity for prospective applicants to meet with current doctoral students and faculty to learn more about the PhD in Social Welfare program. Please kindly forward this PhD in Social Welfare Open House announcement to your networks as well.  Thank you in advance for helping us spread the word about our event! For further inquiries about the event, please feel free to contact me at creang@uw.edu or 206.685.1680.

Warm regards,

Chanira Reang Sperry

 

Hello SSW community!

ARWAG is back for the 2019-2020 school year! Weekly meetings this quarter
will be on Fridays from 12pm-1pm, starting October 18th in room 116.
Meeting locations may change from week to week, so make sure to subscribe
to the listserv by emailing sswarwag@uw.edu

*What is ARWAG?*Anti-Racist White Allyship Group (ARWAG) is an open group
at the School of Social Work for students, staff, and faculty of all
identities, and particularly those who benefit from white privilege. It is
a space for critical self-reflection, dialogue, accountable community,
opportunities for action, and deepening our commitment to racial and social
justice. For more detailed information, check out the group description
attached to this email.

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Join us at Honoring our Superheroes: Indigenous Educator Warriors Powwow October 19th from 11am-8pm! We are honoring the life of Carol Edelman Warrior, PhD and our superheros walking in both educational and traditional worlds. We invite everyone to come celebrate with us while supporting our Indigenous community.

For more information about the event and Powwow Etiquette, please see the links below.

If you would like to volunteer for this event, please email Olivia Morgan at omorga@uw.edu. 

Event Information:  https://iwri.org/news-events/our-events/#/?i=1

Powwow Etiquette:  https://www.powwows.com/pow-wow-101-frequently-asked-questions-native-american-pow-wows/

 

Fall Community Event: Holhpokunna Hatak Chanspo il Okchanyachi: Transcending Historical Trauma and Living the Dreams Our Ancestors Envisioned For Us with Dr. Karina Walters

The RSVP site is now open until Thursday, October 10th at midnight at:
https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/sswstsrv/378395

Live-streaming will be provided through Zoom.

When: Oct 11, 2019 04:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Topic: UW-SocialWork-Walters Lecture-2019-10-11-430pm pacific

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Good Morning,

Please find attached clinical related job postings for Compass Health.

Compass Health Job Postings

Please contact stephen.darcy@compassh.org | Phone: (425) 349-8450 if you have any questions!

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