The Native Center for Alcohol Research Education (NCARE) Webinar Series presents:

Transitions to Recovery
with Dr. Patricia Valverde, Callie Noomah, and Riley Witte
Wednesday, October 30, 2019, 11AM-12PM PDT

Data from the Fairbanks Native Association Gateway to Recovery (GTR) detoxification program in 2018 showed that only about 2% of individuals receiving detox services transitioned to longer-term treatment. Transitions to Recovery (TTR) is a pilot study being conducted in Fairbanks, Alaska, that aims to increase the number of detoxification center consumers who initiate long-term recovery within 30 days of discharge.

This webinar will describe the intervention, including the motivational interviewing session and the patient navigation support commonly provided to participants as part of the TTR intervention. In addition, there will be discussion about the challenges to facilitating transitions to recovery for particularly vulnerable consumers, including those experiencing chronic homelessness.

We invite you to learn more about the work being done in this pilot project by attending the webinar on October 30.

More information about this webinar can be found here: https://ireach.wsu.edu/ncare/category/webinars/

This webinar is free, but registration is required.

Please register here.

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 >
 

“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.

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!

 

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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Do you want to become a better leader? Would you like to network with professionals at the forefront compassionate leadership?

If so, you should attend The Compassionate Leadership Summit coming to the UW HUB on Friday, November 8^th and Saturday, November 9^th. This is a 2-day event, bringing together regional leaders from across sectors to explore how we might bring compassion and mindfulness more effectively into organizations and communities.

The Summit represents a remarkable opportunity to interact with thought-leaders and innovators in the work of creating a more compassionate society, in business, education, healthcare, government, and non-profits.

The UW has a limited number of complimentary 1 or 2-day tickets to give out worth up to $400. If you are interested, please complete the Ticket Application below.

Here is a link to read more about the summit: https://compassionateleadershipsummit.com/

Attached is the narrative arc to learn more about the topics.

Ticket Application: https://forms.gle/aqMUzm4wLsxjNuFN9

Application deadline:  Friday, October 11 @ 5 p.m.

Questions? Email Megan Kennedy (meganken@uw.edu) or Fran Lo (franlo@uw.edu)

Dear students,

As part of its Student Engagement Initiative, the Latino Center for Health has an outstanding opportunity to sponsor up to three graduate students in the Health Sciences to attend the 14th Annual Latino Health Forum presented by Sea Mar Community Health Centers on Wednesday, October 30th, 2019. This year’s theme is Resilience in the Latino Community: Uniting Our Voice to Improve Latino Wellbeing.

The Latino Center for Health provides leadership to promote the health and wellbeing of Latinxs. We do this by building capacity to support culturally responsive research and shaping the next generation of leaders equipped to respond to current and emerging health issues facing diverse Latinx communities in the state and region.

Specifically with this effort, we aim to offer graduate students in the Health Sciences the opportunity to join us at this year’s Latino Health Forum to participate in open dialogue on current topics affecting the health of Latinxs; to network with practitioners, researchers, and community activists; and to gain valuable resources and skills towards shaping health policy and greater health equity for Latinx communities in the Pacific Northwest region.

If you are interested in being sponsored to attend the forum, please fill out the attached short application and send it to latcntr@uw.edu by Monday, October 14th. The application includes an information sheet and a 250-word-or-less essay. We will announce the sponsorship recipients by Wednesday, October 23rd.

For more information on the Latino Health Forum, please visit their website: https://www.seamar.org/latinohealthforum/

LHF Student Sponsorship Application

I would like to follow up on my previous email inviting your University’s students and graduates to the United Nations Conference Centre to the capital city of the second largest economy in Southeast Asia, Bangkok, for the 2019 International Diplomacy Forum, to be held July 10-12.

Designed to recognise, develop and enhance the next generation of global leaders, the inaugural Forum, held in to the capital city of the second largest economy in Southeast Asia, will comprise of interactive workshops, solution-based discussions, negotiation exercises, career advice and networking. Delivered by respected Ambassadors, MPs, Government Officials, Media and World Leading Diplomacy Experts, delegates will gain fundamental skills, insights and connections, essential for their roles as social justice advocates, within their future careers concerning sustainable and inclusive international relations and partnerships. The respected Forum provides dedicated individuals with an experience that differentiates them from the population of emerging graduates, whilst simultaneously providing a global opportunity to engage with the International Diplomatic Community.

To enable your faculty to easily distribute this opportunity to your student/graduate population, I have linked a short blurb here (easily copied and pasted), used by our other partnered universities via email, announcements and various student/graduate platforms. For more information about the International Diplomacy Forum 2019, registration fees and themes to be discussed, please find our e-Brochure linked here, or visit our website www.internationaldiplomacyforum.org.

Former President of the UN Security Council, Professor Kishore Mahbubani will deliver the Keynote Address at the inaugural International Diplomacy Forum 2019.

Professor Mahbubani is the Senior Advisor, a Global Relations expert, as well as a Professor in the Practice of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. In April 2018, The Ash Centre for Democratic Governance and Innovation, a leading research centre housed at Harvard Kennedy School, announced the appointment of Professor Mahbubani as a Senior Visiting Scholar. Professor Mahbubani also serves in many Boards and Councils of institutions around the world, including the Yale President’s Council and World Economic Forum. Most recently, he was selected by Prospect magazine as one of the top 50 world thinkers.

Applicants can either be nominated by faculty members to represent your University, or apply independently by submitting their CV to our Global Partnership Associate, Ms. Claire Emery at claire.emery@humanitarianaffairs.org.

Due to limited seating at the United Nations Conference Centre, and to ensure your students/graduates have ample time to organise flights, we would like to request that students/graduates from your select university apply before May 31. While applications are still open after May 31, those who apply before this date will receive the highest consideration for acceptance. Please note this email serves as the final call for all applications.

Chasing the Butterfly Dream: Zhuangzi and Early Medieval Chinese Culture

Date: Thursday, May 23, 2019

Time: 4 – 5 PM

Location: East Asia Library (Gowen Hall) 2M Room, UW

Admission: Open and Free to public

Presenter: Professor Ping Wang, Dept. of Asian Languages and Literature, UW

The “Qi wu lun” 齊物論 chapter is arguably the most important and at the same time an extremely difficult chapter from the Zhuangzi 莊子. Its enigmatic and elusive ending — the famous butterfly dream narrative — signifies something unattainable in human’s pursuit of life’s meaning and the cosmic truth. In the centuries following the collapse of the Han Empire (202 b.c.e – 220 c.e.), Zhuangzi rose to be an essential text whose interpretations led to unprecedented explorations of cultural ideals that would ascribe meaning to the identity of the exiled Han population and, to a great extent, establish the genetics of Chinese culture. In other words, in order to understand modern China and contemporary Chinese society, we have to delve into the minds of Early Medieval Chinese thinkers. The way the educated elites lived their lives and pursued their dreams by negotiating the philosophical and spiritual dimensions of the Zhuangzi has much to teach us about our own “cultural selves.”

This lecture is offered by the Confucius Institute of the State of Washington

WCPC Seminar Series on Poverty and Public

“Public Information Infrastructures and Inequality after Disasters: Historical Perspectives “
Megan Finn
UW iSchool

Monday, May 20th
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
*Q&A until 2:00 pm

School of Social Work, Room 305A Policy

Full Schedule

The UW School of Social Work’s pursuit of solution-focused Impact Science includes opportunities to bring members of our science and practice/policy communities together. By sharing perspectives regarding issues salient to the profession, we foster spaces for cross-fertilization. We open with a focus on some of the national Social Work Grand Challenges Initiative topics.

Guest Speakers:

• Eric O. Agyemang, MSW, CLI Program Manager, Puget Sound Sage
• J. David Hawkins, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Prevention, School of Social Work
• Liz Wilhelm, MS, CPP, Drug Free Communities Coordinator, Prevention WINS Coalition

Social Work Building, Room 305

Tuesday, May 14, 2019

4:30—6:30 pm

4:30-5:15: Meet and Greet, with refreshments

5:15—6:00: Program

6:00—6:30: Community Conversation

Please follow the link to RSVP, as refreshments and light hors d’oeuvres will be served: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/impact-science-series-unleashing-the-power-of-prevention-tickets-54381030125

To request disability accommodation, contact the Disability Services Office at least 10 days in advance at 206.543.6450/V, 206.543.6452/TTY, 206.685.7264 (FAX), or email dso@uw.edu.

 

Creating Co-Regulation Supports for Adolescents: What, Why, and How

Date: Monday, May 20

Time: 3:00-4:00 PM Eastern  (12-1 Pacific)

Click here to register

Description: The term “co-regulation” has typically referred to younger children, but is now being broadly applied to describe an interactive process of support within the context of caring relationships across the lifespan. Like early childhood, early adolescence is a time of rapid brain growth, with the opportunity to build long-term perspective and problem-solve increasingly complex life situations. 

Although peers become increasingly important during adolescence, youth still need caring adults who can listen supportively, model and reinforce healthy coping strategies, provide space and support when they experience strong feelings, and help them reflect on how well their strategies are helping them attain important goals. Adolescence is a critical time for co-regulation support. Unfortunately, most prevention programs for adolescent self-regulation do not train parents and teachers to systematically and intentionally utilize such strategies in day-to-day interactions with youth. 

This webinar will present a co-regulation model for adolescents that was developed based on cross-disciplinary theory and literature reviews. The initial work on this model was supported by the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) through the creation of the Self-Regulation and Toxic Stress Series. 

The presentation will: 
– provide ACF’s rationale for this work; 
– describe the co-regulation model and how it can be translated into specific actions; and 
– address how co-regulation approaches are similar to and differ from parent education and therapy programs, how they can be integrated into existing programs, and how they can promote well-being on a public health scale.

Presenters: 
– Desiree Murray, Senior Research Scientist, Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 
– Aleta Meyer, Team Lead, Division of Family Strengthening, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families 
– Aly Frei, Project Director, Public Strategies 

Beyond Bars: Higher Education and Carceral Space
Speaker: Gillian Harkins
Tuesday, May 28, 2:30 to 3:20 p.m.
Room 220, Odegaard
RSVP for this free event: http://bit.ly/ahersgh

Send questions: aher@uw.edu
This is an Advances in Higher Education Research Seminar: Gillian Harkins is an associate professor of English and adjunct associate professor of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at the UW.  She specializes in cultural studies of the novel and contemporary sexual politics as well as the intersection between education justice and prison abolition. She currently works with three regional higher education in prison programs in the Puget Sound Area.
Sponsored by the Center for Teaching & Learning, this seminar series highlights original research in college-level learning and instruction. Multidisciplinary in scope, each seminar addresses the broad themes of our work as instructors, including the cognitive processes by which students learn, and the classroom context in which they do so.
All seminars are free and open to the public. Presentations will be followed by a Q&A session and opportunities for discussion.

For more information:

https://www.washington.edu/teaching/innovation/advances-in-higher-education-research-seminar/

 

Hello UW Community and Partners!

Wondering about life after graduation? Curious about the career opportunities for your degree and wondering what life will look like five years from now?
Interested in connecting with global health organizations?
Want to hear from some experts in the field about their work?
Thinking about joining the Peace Corps?
Want to have fun and show off your trivia knowledge?

Then join us for these exciting events during GLOBAL HEALTH CAREER WEEK!

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What can adversity, struggle, and failure teach us about success, meaning, identity, resilience, and ultimately, how to Fail Forward?

Wednesday, May 15, 2019, 6:00–8:00 p.m. Kane Hall 130 Free

Come hear UW leaders share the setbacks, struggles and failures they experienced on their paths to success in a panel discussion moderated by Undergraduate Academic Affairs’ Dr. Anne Browning and Vice Provost and Dean Ed Taylor. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. This event is free but space is limited. Register today to save your spot! Register

Please join us for the second annual UW Health Equity Conference on May 7th from 6:00-8:30pm, presented by the Housestaff Quality and Safety Committee and the Network for Underrepresented Residents and Fellows. The conference will feature a keynote by Dr. Leo Morales, Chief Diversity Officer of the UW School of Medicine, and sessions working with faculty, trainees, and students from a wide range of disciplines on specific healthcare equity issues including housing status, race, immigration status, and gender identity. This is a great opportunity to learn more about these issues, hear about diverse perspectives, and help design solutions!

NURF-HQSC Health Equity Conference
May 7th, 2019 from 6:00-8:30pm
Harborview R&T 117
300 9th Ave, Seattle, WA 98104
Please RSVP here
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Alcohol-Exposed Pregnancy Prevention in American Indian Communities: A New Randomized Controlled Trial of a Preconceptual Approach with Drs. Michelle Sarche and Jessica Hanson Monday, May 13^th, 2019, 12PM-1PM PDT

This presentation will explain the importance of a preconceptual approach to alcohol-exposed pregnancy prevention, detailing efforts to prevent alcohol-exposed pregnancy in American Indian communities in particular. It will illustrate how these efforts have informed the design and implementation of a new randomized controlled trial of Native-Changing High-risk Alcohol Use and Increasing Contraception Effectiveness Study (Native CHOICES) (an adaptation of CHOICES) with one Northern Plains American Indian community.

This webinar is free but registration is required.

Please register here.

Originally scheduled for February 12^th, but cancelled due to the suspension of campus operations, this event is rescheduled for Tuesday, May 14th, 2019. The time, place, and format will be exactly as before, 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.  So that we may plan a more enjoyable experience for all, please RSVP by May 8^th using the Eventbrite link:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/impact-science-series-unleashing-the-power-of-prevention-tickets-54381030125

The UW School of Social Work’s pursuit of solution-focused Impact Science includes opportunities to bring members of our science and practice/policy communities together. By sharing perspectives regarding issues salient to the profession, we foster spaces for cross-fertilization. We open with a focus on some of the national Social Work Grand Challenges Initiative topics.

Guest Speakers:

Eric O. Agyemang, MSW CLI Program Manager Puget Sound Sage

J. David Hawkins, PhD Emeritus Professor of Prevention School of Social Work

Liz Wilhelm, MS, CPP Drug Free Communities Coordinator Prevention WINS Coalition

Social Work Building, Room 305

Tuesday, May 14, 2019

4:30—6:30 pm

4:30—5:15: Meet and Greet, with refreshments

5:15—6:00: Program

6:00—6:30: Community Conversation

Please follow the link to RSVP, as refreshments and light hors d’oeuvres will be served: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/impact-science-series-unleashing-the-power-of-prevention-tickets-54381030125

To request disability accommodation, contact the Disability Services Office at least 10 days in advance at 206.543.6450/V, 206.543.6452/TTY, 206.685.7264 (FAX), or email dso@uw.edu.

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