Colectiva de Latin American Social Workers is hosting a movie screening and discussion panel centralizing the conflict occurring in Puerto Rico. We would like to extend the invitation to all SSW students and faculty!

Do you have an idea for a product that you’d like to take to market? Discover the possibilities for your idea through the Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship’s first annual series of Consumer Product Workshop events organized in partnership with Seattle Made!

The Maker’s Journey: Consumer Product Food Festival + Panel 
Friday, 2/14 – 1-4pm (Anthony’s Forum, DEM 302)

• 1-2pm – Sample Seattle-made food products and meet the business owners!
• 2-3pm – The Maker’s Journey: Panel Discussion
  • Shannon Davis, Selamet Designs
  • Phebe Rossi, Nuflours Bakery
  • Peter Keckemet, Joe Chocolate Co
• 3-4pm – Continue to enjoy Seattle-made food products!

Consumer Product Workshop – Product Design, Manufacturing, Retail Strategy + more!

Saturday, 2/15 – 9:30am – 3pm (Anthony’s Forum, DEM 302)

• 9:30am – Breakfast provided by Honest Biscuits (gluten-free options will be provided)
• 10am – Welcome + Intros
• 10:15am – Product Design 101 – bring your creative energy!
• 11:45am – Lunch provided by Healthy Creations (all food will be vegan, gluten free and very delicious!)
• 12:15pm – Bringing Your Idea to Market: Panel Discussion
• 1pm – Mini Workshops (30-min rotating sessions)
  • How to Build a Thriving Customer Community
  • Retail Strategy: Online Sales vs. Brick + Mortar Businesses
  • Manufacturing Your Product
• 3pm – Reflection + Next Steps!

Click here to RSVP!

The Northwest Universal Design Council invites you to our first event of 2020, a Forum on Universal Design and Pedestrian Wayfinding!

The Forum will take place on Thursday, February 27, from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. and will feature an expert panel and a discussion on designing wayfinding systems and tools to meet the mobility needs of all.

This forum is FREE. Registration is encouraged but not required. To register, please visit the EventBrite registration page at https://bit.ly/2GyMSgR.

Light refreshments will be provided. Hearing loop, real-time captioning, and assisted listening devices will be provided.

For other disability accommodations or accessibility information, contact me at 206-684-0654 or jon.winters@seattle.gov as soon as possible.

More information and an event flyer are on the News and Events page of the Northwest Universal Design Council website, Environmentsforall.org

 

The SSW Faculty Council and Dean’s Team are delighted to host an informal exchange with our very own Professor Susan Kemp, on Friday, January 31^st at 4:30 pm.  Heavy hors d’oeurves and libations will follow her talk.

Susan will talk about her current work to advance new, critically needed local, national and global social work partnerships around environmental change.  

 More details to follow.  But for now, SSW faculty, staff and students, please mark your calendars. You will not want to miss it!

Join UW Provost and Executive Vice President Mark Richards as he discusses academic excellence, graduate education, the arts and the impact of the University’s work.

February 26, 2020

3:30–4:30 p.m.

Hub Lyceum

Reception to follow outside the Lyceum.

If you have questions for Provost Richards, please submit them in advance to provost@uw.edu.

No RSVP required. A livestream of the town hall will be available on the provost’s website.

First-Gens Share Their Digital Stories
Wednesday, February 5, 3:30 pm – 5 pm (Doors open at 3)
Room 305, School of Social Work Building, Seattle campus
Send questions to cpinfo@uw.edu
RSVP recommended: bit.ly/digitalfirsts

This event is free and open to the community.

To request disability accommodation, contact the Disability Services Office at 206-543-6450 (voice), 206-543-6452 (TTY), 206-685-7264 (fax), or dso@uw.edu

Photos will be taken during this event. Images may be posted on Core Programs websites, facebook pages, and graduate student outreach materials. Please feel free to contact Core Programs’ staff at cpinfo@uw.edu, if you have any questions or feedback.

Health Science Library presents Still Around

Includes 15 short films commemorating the anniversary of the epidemic and guest speaker Manuel Venegas, City of Seattle LGBTQ Commission

Date: 2/20 from 11 am – 12:30 pm

Hello health sciences students!

You are invited for an evening of theatre and discussion on campus. This event aims to provide space for students to engage with each other across health professions, about the challenges and grief that can accompany or arise from the very human work of being a healthcare provider.  A short play will be performed live by professional actors, with discussion to follow.

February 19, 2020, 5:30-7:30pm
South Campus Center
Dinner will be served!

A brief description of the 15-minute play, Untold:

When Faith Morgan comes to the hospital to deliver her baby, she knows he is stillborn, but does not know the full-extent of what “giving birth to death” means. With the assistance of Dr. Audrey Armstrong and Nurse Paul George, Faith goes through the physical pain of childbirth and rides out her conflicted emotions while Dr. Armstrong and Nurse George relive their own stories of child loss.  Together they come to a determination of how best to honor this child.

Warning:  The play contains scenes of childbirth and may trigger feelings of depression and grief especially among those who have suffered miscarriage, still birth, failed IVF and unsuccessful adoption.

Space is limited and pre-registration is required. Please register by February 10, 2020, by clicking here.

Questions? You can contact Tracy Brazg: tbrazg@uw.edu.

This interprofessional education (IPE) event is co-sponsored and developed by The Grief Dialogues, the Center for Integrative Oncology and Palliative Care Social Work, and the Center for Health Sciences Interprofessional Education, Research and Practice.

Health Insurance Webinar for Graduate Students
Wednesday, January 22, 12:00–1:00 p.m.
Webinar link will be e-mailed to the first 100 RSVPs
Send questions to Core Programs.

Health insurance can be one of the most confusing parts of life as a graduate student. During this webinar, you’ll learn about:

– International Student Health Insurance Plan (ISHIP) or Graduate Appointee Insurance Plan (GAIP)
– health insurance options if you’re not eligible for ISHIP or GAIP (UW does not offer other types of graduate student insurance)
– resources on understanding your insurance benefits
– ways to access health services on and off campus
– services provided by UW Hall Health, UW HR and Public Health-Seattle King County

Note: The webinar will also be recorded and accessible online at a later date.

This webinar is hosted by Core Programs—Office of Graduate Student Affairs in The Graduate School, facilitated by Health Promotion at UW Hall Health, and supported by UW Hall Health, UW HR and Public Health-Seattle & King County.

 

Please join 2016/17 Common Book Author, Josephine Ensign on Sunday, January 26^th at 2pm for a lecture at Town Hall

She will be speaking on her Catching Homelessness book, but this is just a starting point. She will also include content and ideas from her 2018 UCSF Medical Humanities book, Soul Stories: Voices from the Margins and her soon-to-be published Johns Hopkins University book provisionally titled Skid Road: The Intersection of Health and Homelessness in an American Frontier City--about the history and current situation of homelessness in Seattle-King County. That book includes her oral history interviews of many social workers, nurses, physicians, clergy, and activists in Seattle. This Town Hall event will counter the “Seattle is Dying” narrative and will focus on what works and how people can become better informed and involved.

https://townhallseattle.org/event/josephine-ensign/

“Lessons from Housing Voucher Users: Residential Histories, Housing Searches, and Residential Outcomes”
Erin Carll

UW Sociology

Monday, December 2nd
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
School of Social Work, Room 305A

Below is the live link for the Panopto recording of Judith Perrigo’s colloquium presentation today and her short bio:

https://uw.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=c06d4b21-8661-46f8-99db-ab00015ae1ac

Judy draws from her personal background as a Salvadoran immigrant and her professional applied clinical work (more than 15 years) with children and families to inform her scholarship. Judy’s research focuses on the well-being of young children, birth to five years old, with an emphasis on prevention and early intervention (PEI) initiatives. Her dissertation explores the role of parental involvement among low-SES students, preschool through second grade, who are closing the low/high-SES achievement gap. The strengths-based, two-phase explanatory sequential mixed methods dissertation enhances the existing longitudinal and experimental study, the NIDDK-funded Chicago Heights Early Childhood Center (CHECC) (PI: Samek). Access to the CHECC infrastructure, along with a multidisciplinary dissertation committee enables Judy to have a rich, unique, and transdisciplinary perspective. Public health implications of her dissertation highlight possible points of intervention to improve early childhood education programs that benefit low-SES preschool students. Additionally, Judy has taught graduate-level practice and research courses in the USC Keck School of Medicine and USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work.

Judy lists her research and practice interests as:

• Global and Domestic Child Protective Services
• Young Children’s Neurocognitive Development
• Early Childhood Education
• Children with Developmental Delays and Disabilities
• Underserved Ethnic Marginalized Children, Families and Communities

Exhibits 6-7:30pm
Lecture/Panel 730-9pm
Tickets: Free for students with code LEO19
RSVP HERE

Please join a public lecture by Leonardo da Vinci historian Domenico Laurenza, followed by a panel discussion with UW faculty experts from a range of Leonardo’s areas of interest and exploration.

Enjoy pre-lecture exhibits and demonstrations by UW faculty, staff and students, illustrating the interface of science, art and technology.

“The Difference a Day Makes: How Pretrial Detention Informs Future Criminal Justice Contact”

Monday, November 18th
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
(Q&A until 2:00pm)
School of Social Work, Room 305A

Led by Sandra Susan Smith, Sociology
University of California, Berkeley

5:00 – 6:00 pm (Doors open at 4:30)
Pacific Conference Room – Health Sciences Library, lower level, Room T229 (on the bottom floor of the Health Sciences Library)

Watch Trailer bit.ly/2JA5ejv

This hour-long documentary reflects on the historic struggle of civil rights activists who fought to make the American healthcare system equal and accessible to everyone regardless of skin color. Using the incentive of Medicare dollars, the federal government virtually ended the decades-long practice of racially segregating patients, doctors, medical staff, blood supplies and linens in a matter of months. And although these events took place more than a half-century ago, many of the issues surrounding health equity and the role of the government in healthcare continue to be relevant today.

Here’s what audiences had to say about the film:

“Having spent most of my career studying the civil rights movement, I assumed that I was well informed about its many dimensions. But watching Power to Heal was a revelation to me. The film is a fascinating and instructive story about the long American struggle for social justice.”
Clayborne Carson, Professor of History, Founding Director, The Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute, Stanford University

“It is essential that students and young physicians from all backgrounds know their history and how our profession both supported and worked to dismantle segregated healthcare in our country. This is a critical film that not only speaks to a time that has passed in our American history; it foreshadows to the present. Segregated healthcare still persists and is highly invisible in this country – except to the people who experience the ills of it. And so this film challenges us all as physicians and soon-to-be physicians to recognize that our collective work to ensure justice in health must always move beyond our typical work within hospital walls.”
Aletha Maybank, Deputy Commissioner, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Director, Center for Health Equity

WCPC Seminar Series on Poverty and Public Policy

Join us on Monday, November 4th, as we kick off our quarterly seminar series with a pair of short research presentations about service charges and a local program to help families receiving housing vouchers move to “opportunity neighborhoods.”

Monday, November 4th

12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
*Q&A until 2:00 pm

School of Social Work, Room 305A

Research Briefs:

• “Service Charges Versus Tipping: Perceived Impacts on Service Workers” Crystal Hall, UW Evans School & Annette Case, independent policy consultant
• “Designing a Program to Help Families Move to Opportunity Neighborhoods” Andria Lazaga, Seattle Housing Authority & Sarah Oppenheimer, King County Housing Authority

Fall Schedule

To request disability accommodation, contact the Disability Services Office at least ten days in advance at:

206-543-6450/V, 206.543.6452/TTY, 206.685.7264 (FAX), or dso@uw.edu

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