Please join us today for Amy Peloff’s talk!

GWSS TALK

Thursday, February 28, 2019

3:30-5:00 p.m. – HUB 214 (Husky Union Building)

Amy Peloff, Ph.D.  –  Should I still Watch This Show? Pop Culture in the #MeToo Era

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Canada House is buzzing with excitement over the upcoming CANADA WEEK! Scheduled for March 4-9, 2019, Canada Week makes its return to Western’s campus after a few years’ hiatus with a list of exciting campus and community-wide events. There will be a film series, including a screening of Zachary Richard, Toujours Batailleur and discussion with filmmaker Phil Comeau, as well as a screening of Haida language film Sgaawaay K’uuna, (Edge of the Knife). Some outstanding Canadian authors will also be visiting Bellingham, including Terese Marie Mailhot to discuss her recent book Heart Berries and Sophie Labelle to share her web comic Assigned Male. As well, Canada Week will hold lectures, student-faculty connection events, and field trips. K-12 Education and Curriculum Specialist Kyla Sweet will also host an event “Reading the North” with WWU librarian Sylvia Tag for local schoolteachers.

 

Click here for a full listing of events, times, location: https://canam.wwu.edu/canada-week-2019/

And check out the Canada House Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/canamwwu/

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

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.

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.

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

I’m excited to announce that Salomé Valencia-Bohné will be presenting a lightning-talk titled ‘Sharing Power: Supporting Latinx Patients in Palliative Care’ at the upcoming Scholars’ Studio event on Thursday, Feb. 21!

Please invite departmental graduate students, staff, and faculty to attend this fun, TED-talks style event in collegial support of Salomé. More details below.

Event Details

Scholars’ Studio: Community Engagement@the Commons

Thursday, February 21, 4 pm – 5 pm

Presentation Place in the Research Commons, Allen Library South, UW Seattle

Campus calendar entry:

https://www.washington.edu/calendar/?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D131015713

Attend this fun, informal event to hear grad students from across the disciplines talk about their grad work on the theme of community engagement–all in front of a supportive, cross-disciplinary audience!

Reception to follow presentations with lights foods and refreshments.

This free event is a partnership between the UW Libraries Research Commons and Core Programs–Office of Graduate Student Affairs in The Graduate School.

 

Come join the ECC and Black Student Commission on February 21, 2019 at 5:30 pm. for the Social Justice Speaker’s Series featuring Aaron Dixon. Aaron Dixon is one of the founders of Seattle’s Black Panther Party. Recently, he wrote about his experiences in activism in the riveting book, My People are Rising. He will be discussing his book and engaging with folks for a Q&A. Books will also be available for sale!

Please join us at the ECC! refreshments and snacks will be provided! When else will you have a chance to engage with a legend???

Doors open: 5:30 pm, Unity Suite, Ethnic Cultural Center

Hello Health Profession Students ~

iPALS is an opportunity for students from across the health sciences to prepare themselves to practice effectively on interprofessional teams, through actively engaging together about topics of interest in healthcare and population health.

There is one remaining Winter quarter iPALS session coming up and we encourage you to sign up to attend!

Positive & Proactive Healthcare for Older Adults Across the Cognitive Continuum
Tuesday March 5, 2019
3:30-5:20pm in South Campus Center 316
Register for March 5, 2019 iPALS session: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/tbrazg/364820

Space is limited. Please sign up ASAP!
Watch for information about Spring quarter iPALS sessions in March!

 

https://mailchi.mp/da4bbaa492f9/register-now-nwpttc-webinar-the-pharmacology-of-cannabinoids-1522761?e=3797b8bb0f

Join the School of Social Work and campus partners on February 27^th for film, food, and conversation with a FREE screening + postfilm discussion of “For Ahkeem.”

After a school fight lands 17-year old Daje Shelton in a court-supervised alternative high school, she’s determined to turn things around and make a better future for herself in her rough St. Louis neighborhood. But focusing on school is tough as she loses multiple friends to gun violence, falls in love for the first time, and becomes pregnant with a boy, Ahkeem, just as Ferguson erupts a few miles down the road. Through Daje’s intimate coming-of-age story, For Ahkeem illuminates challenges that many Black teenagers face in America today, and witnesses the strength, resilience, and determination it takes to survive.

“For Akheem”

Wednesday, February 27^th

6-9 PM

Ethnic Cultural Theatre

Mark your calendars for an upcoming event organized and co-sponsored by CHSIE, UW Medicine, and The Washington Patient Safety Coalition.

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.

Hello SSWers,

I am on the board of the Washington State Society for Clinical Social Work and I am excited about spreading the word about the upcoming WSSCSW spring conference because it is hard to come by good family therapy training. The trainer is coming in from the Ackerman Institute in New York to offer this workshop. Choose between attending the full day or a day and a half of family therapy institute learning the Ackerman Relational Approach. Throughout the training, attention will be paid to how issues of class, race, gender and culture impact the therapeutic relationship and family struggles.

Day 1, Friday, May 17th will focus on implementing the ideas from family systems theory into your therapeutic approach to work more effectively with children, families, and couples with complex struggles.
Day 2, Saturday, May 18th will focus on treating children and families who have experienced relational trauma and therapeutic model to help heal these relational wounds.

See the information below or see the attached flyer. You can register here: https://www.wsscsw.org/event-3218723

The D Center staff would like to extend an invitation to you to attend our upcoming event: Disability is An Asset: An Evening with Haben Girma. This will be the largest and most high profile event the D Center has hosted to date. We are so thrilled to be welcoming Ms. Girma to UW and that UW President Cauce has accepted our invitation to introduce her. The event has generated a great deal of interest among the Husky community and the greater Seattle area and Ms. Girma’s message surrounding access to higher education is a vital conversation we are hoping to spark among all spheres of the UW.

Details:
Wednesday, February 13th 2019
HUB Lyceum Doors at 4:30. Program begins at 5pm

RSVP  and access details Here:

Bio of Haben Girma:

The first Deafblind person to graduate from Harvard Law School, Haben Girma advocates for equal opportunities for people with disabilities. Named as a Champion of Change by President Obama, Haben also received the Helen Keller Achievement Award, and a spot on Forbes 30 Under 30. Haben travels the world consulting and public speaking, teaching clients the benefits of fully accessible products and services. Haben is a talented storyteller who helps people frame difference as an asset. She resisted society’s low expectations, choosing to create her own pioneering story.

WCPC Seminar Series on Poverty and Public Policy

“Neighborhoods and Children’s Oral Health”

DONALD CHI – UW School of Dentistry

Monday, January 28th
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
*Q&A until 2:00 pm
School of Social Work, Room 305A

Abstract: Place is an important determinant of child health outcomes. Previous studies have shown that neighborhood features, including social capital, are positively associated with behaviors like pediatric dental care visits. Less clear is (1) whether neighborhood social capital influences physical health outcomes, like tooth decay and gum health, and (2) potential mechanisms underlying these relationships, including biological stress and hygiene-related routines within the home. In this work-in-progress seminar, Dr. Chi will describe a recently completed observational study of 330 children ages 12-17 years enrolled in the Oregon Medicaid program. He will present preliminary data and highlight challenges of conducting neighborhood-level clinical studies.

For the full schedule of West Coast Poverty Center winter quarter seminars, click here.

POWERFUL CITIZENSHIP IN 2019

How will you activate your civic power this year? 

The University of Washington is hosting the 2019 Washington & Oregon Higher Education Sustainability Conference (WOHESC) on February 25-27 in the HUB. This is the second annual WOHESC event, which brings together students, faculty and operational staff from campuses across the region to advance sustainability, equity, diversity and inclusion in higher education.

The conference program features many University of Washington students, faculty and staff who will be sharing their experiences and lessons on incorporating sustainability into higher education and beyond in sessions, panel discussions, networking groups and more.  There are workshops specifically relating to sustainability and social justice, anti-racist practices, etc.
Registration for the conference is open now, with early pricing available until January 25, 2019. Use discount code UW2019 for a 30% discount on registration.
Register at wohesc.org/register

UW Sustainability has a few free registrations available for UW students. To apply for one of the complimentary registrations, students must fill out a short form describing why they’d like to be considered and actions they’ve taken for sustainability. Submissions must be received by Jan. 18, 2019, at 5 p.m.

Details and the application can be found at https://green.uw.edu/blog/2019-01/apply-complimentary-student-registration-wohesc

 

You are invited to the Heathy Generations Hartford Center of Excellence Annual Lecture by LaShawnDa Pittman, PhD: “When You Say Grandmother You Still Say Mother: Black Grandmothering in the 21st Century.” Details are below and in the attached flier. Come hear about this exciting work!

Please RSVP here.

 

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