Social Work students, we are delighted to invite you to a special Licensure Informational Session tailored for social work students aspiring to obtain licensure. This session will offer valuable insights into the requirements, types of licenses, and resources available to support your success.

This is a comprehensive overview of social work licensure requirements in the state of Washington, featuring: explanations of applicable laws and rules (RCWs and WACs), detailed comparison of LASW, LSWAA, and LSWAIC, LICSW licenses (associate versus full licensure), and an interactive Q&A session.

Presented by Jeremy Arp, Executive Director for the Washington Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers, and Aida Wells, Associate Teaching Professor/Field Faculty at the UW SSW

• Monday, April 28, from 6:30-7:30pm
• RSVP and access Zoom link

Learn more about your career series here: SSW Spring Career Series 2025. If you have accommodation requests relating to access needs, disability, and/or health condition, please contact your SSW Student Services: sswstdnt@uw.edu.

SSW students, join us for a series of career-oriented events and programming this spring!

Join us for guidance on getting started with your job hunt, identifying helpful websites, defining your search criteria, and creating a spreadsheet to organize your potential jobs. We’ll also go over best practices and helpful campus resources for resumes and cover letter support.

• Monday, April 21st from 6:30-7:30pm
• RSVP and access Zoom link

Learn more about your career series here: SSW Spring Career Series 2025. If you have accommodation requests relating to access needs, disability, and/or health condition, please contact your SSW Student Services: sswstdnt@uw.edu.

****Revised as of June 6th, 2025: the program has concluded for the year.

MSW students, consider this free training and research opportunity. The training is titled, “Pathways to Safety: Empowering Social Workers to Counsel Clients about Firearms”, and is part of a UW PHI grant. This opportunity is open to all MSW cohorts.

Find the RSVP link here: https://redcap.link/PTStraining

MSW students, consider your registration for these free UW sponsored webinar(s). Commence forwarded message:

In Partnership with Seattle Children’s Hospital and the Partnership Access Line (PAL), Forefront Suicide Prevention is pleased to present a FAST Skills Workshop Series. The First Approach Skills Training (FAST) programs are designed to provide brief, evidence-based behavioral therapy methods for youth and families with common mental health concerns. These workshops, intended for parents/caregivers and/or school based mental health providers will give an overview of the FAST approach and accompanying resources and will build on our 2023-24 workshop series.

These trainings are approved for 1 Clock Hour per session for Washington state educators for those attending in real time. Sessions will be recorded and made available to all participants who pre-register, whether or not you are able to attend every session.

Scheduled Sessions:

• October 29: Youth Suicide Prevention, Part II (Dr. Jennifer Blossom) VIEW FULL VIDEO
• November 19: Anxiety, Part II (Dr. Jennifer Blossom VIEW FULL VIDEO
• December 4: Technology, Social Media & Youth Mental Health (Dr. Jennifer Blossom) VIEW FULL VIDEO
• January 21: Caregiver Self-Regulation & Consequences (Dr. China Bolden Jarvis) VIEW FULL VIDEO
• UPCOMING: February 25: Parenting Teens (Dr. China Bolden Jarvis)
• UPCOMING: March 18: Cultural Considerations for Youth Mental Health (Dr. China Bolden Jarvis)

View recordings of our 2023-24 FAST series

Register now for the upcoming workshops: FAST Skills Workshop Registration

MSW students, the Counseling Center is hosting two workshops focused on friendship and relationship building skills.  This is a two-part workshop, and you are welcome to join one or both of them. Registration is encouraged but not required.

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The second one focuses on healthy communication and setting boundaries. The workshops use interactive activities to help students have fun while learning new skills. Please refer students.

Connect with a Counselor: Husky Helpline: same-day consultation 24/7| Let’s Talk: drop-in consultation | Short-term counseling

The Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) is hosting their Annual Conference here in Seattle from January 15-19, 2025! The theme of this conference is “Strengthening Social Impact through Collaborative Research”.

The School of Social Work is one of the sponsors for this conference, and there will be many exciting events planned. Registration is now open– we hope to see you there! 

The UW BIPOC Adoptee Collective is hosted by the UW School of Social Work and is open to all adopted UW students, staff, and faculty who identify as Black, Indigenous, and/or a person of color. 

The UW BIPOC Adoptee Collective and AIRE Roots are sponsoring a workshop by Dr. JaeRan Kim on the Adoptee Consciousness Model.

Please join us if you identify as a BIPOC Adoptee. This event is open to the public. This event is intentionally designed as a space for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) Adoptees. We appreciate your understanding and respect for maintaining this as a BIPOC Adoptee affinity space.

Please RSVP for this event.

The Center for Deployment Psychology (CDP) which is a Department of Defense funded center based at the Uniformed Services University in Bethesda, Maryland, is offering a free 3-day virtual program in January and an in-person program in July each year. This is an opportunity for social work students interested in serving military-connected populations. 

Please see the website, Pathways to Military Behavioral Health Careers: The Winter Institute | Center for Deployment Psychology with further information, such as application materials and course of study. Applications are considered on a rolling basis and will close once the program is full.

To learn more about this opportunity, please reach out to April (she/her), april.thimpson.ctr@usuhs.edu

Find the flyer attached below.

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Please join the Office of Graduate Student Equity & Excellence (GSEE) for their first Power Hour of the academic year at the UW Seattle Communications Building (CMU), Room 126, on Wednesday, November 6, from 2:00 – 3:30 pm PT!   

GSEE Power Hours are designed with introspective and professional growth in mind. Graduate students impacted by racism and its intersections are invited to participate in interactive discussions surrounding topics that are unique to their academic and professional journeys. 

We are grateful to be holding space with our colleagues, Dr. Charisse Williams, Assistant Director and Counseling Psychologist at UW Counseling Center, and Sasha Duttchoudhury, MSW, LSWAIC, and Program Manager at the UW Resilience Lab. Together our facilitators will be leading graduate students through exercises and discussions that will invite them to consider what it’s like to practice resilience in changing times. As we engage with the pressures and uncertainties of course loads, finding community, and everyday life in the ever-changing times that we live in, we can feel exhausted and defeated. GSEE wants to provide a space for graduate students to be in community, rest, and recenter.

To RSVP for “Resilience in Changing Times” visit this webpage. 

Hosted by Jackson School Career Services & Jackson School Student Association (JSSA), on Thursday, November 7, 2024

Time: 5:30-6:30 PM Pacific

Location: Thomson 317

Want to crush your post-grad job hunt? Discover the Top 10 mistakes job hunter make and learn what to do instead. Peg Cheng, Jackson School’s Assistant Director of Student Services, will cover everything from how to write resumes and cover letters that will get you interviews, to how to know if you should apply for a specific job, to how to use logic and intuition to your advantage, and much more. Bring your own drink, snacks will be served. OPEN TO ALL UW STUDENTS AND ALUMNI.

Changes in the seasons, especially to darker and colder times of the year, can have surprising or unexpected impacts on our physical, mental, and emotional health. Learn about the science behind those changes and the skills to thrive more successfully during seasonal challenges.

Date, Time, and Logistics:

Thursday, Oct. 31, 2024
Husky Union Building (HUB) Room 340, UW Seattle Campus
Registration required as space is limited.
Free snacks and refreshments will be provided.

First session: Open to international graduate students   
11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Register: https://forms.office.com/r/09NJ3FZeTU

Second session: Open to first-generation graduate students and historically underrepresented graduate students  
12:15 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.
Register: https://forms.office.com/r/09NJ3FZeTU

These workshops will be facilitated by LiveWell Peer Health Educators, in partnership with the Center for International Relations & Cultural Leadership Exchange and The Graduate School’s Graduate Student Affairs and Graduate Student Equity & Excellence. 

Join us for Julie M Kafka, PhD, MPH’s talk on Intimate partner violence as a precursor to suicide: pathways, prevalence, and opportunities for prevention. Dr Kafka will describe how intimate partner violence (IPV) may lead to suicide, current estimates regarding the role of IPV in suicide, explore promising practices and opportunities to prevent IPV-related suicide, and speak to her recent JAMA Network Open publication “Deaths Related to Domestic Violence in Washington State”.

Julie M Kafka, PhD, MPH is an Assistant Professor with the University of Colorado Firearm Injury Prevention Initiative and a faculty member in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine. Her research is dedicated to the prevention and interruption of intimate partner violence, with a focus on systems response, policy implementation, and the role of firearms in violence escalation. The goal of her work is to conduct applied research that can help support victim-survivors while also addressing abusive behaviors by the people who perpetrate harm.

This workshop has been approved for 1 CEUs by the Washington Chapter, National Association of Social Workers (NASW) for Licensed Social Workers, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapists and Licensed Mental Health Counselors. Your Provider number is #1975-473

Seeking resources for mental wellness this quarter? Look no further! UWCC is pleased to offer a series of workshops. These are all virtual (zoom info is in the brochure) and no pre-registration is needed. Workshops are an easy and low-commitment way to start the mental wellness journey.

Workshops are weekly throughout the quarter. Please refer students to the workshops. If faculty choose to give extra credit for students who attend, please let us know and we will be happy to take attendance. Workshop info is attached below. See you there!

Are you a UW graduate student/faculty/staff member engaged in academic or professional work that you wish you could communicate to a broader audience? Interested in building your resume while learning how to tell compelling stories about meaningful topics? Curious about what you can do with a podcast?

If YES: the UW Libraries invites you to register for Storytelling Fellows! This is an innovative, hands-on program designed to highlight the interests and accomplishments of UW community members, using digital-storytelling skills and technologies. This totally free, four-week online program will take fellows through the start-to-finish process of envisioning and creating a podcast suitable for an online portfolio, professional presentation, or academic project.

Folks who have participated in past Storytelling Fellows programs have created podcasts for the following reasons: 

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We are happy to report that full scholarships are now available for any who wish to attend the Women Center’s upcoming anti-human trafficking conference!

To receive the scholarship please submit the registration form below, including your food preferences and sensitivities.

Thank you in advance and we look forward to seeing you at the conference!

Conference information:

The UW Women’s Center formally invites you to the 2024 International Conference: Ending Human Trafficking in an Era of Globalization: Problems, Perspectives, and Progress

September 5th, 2024

Full Scholarships Available via Link or QR Code

(Revised 4/2025: If you are interested in attending the 2025 SSW licensure workshops, please visit this link: https://depts.washington.edu/mswnews/2025/04/social-work-licensure-workshop-4-28/)

Hello DAY/AS students! Interested in being a licensed social worker? Are you curious about the steps to get there? Join us for our SSW Spring Career Series: Social Work Licensure Workshops- which aim to inform and train you for your ventures into becoming officially licensed.

There are TWO events- one open to the public, and one specific for the UW SSW community. See below for event logistics and registration details.

1.) “What Students Need To Know About Licensure”, a NASW Social Work Licensure Workshop — hosted by the Washington Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers 

Join the NASW-WA Membership Engagement Committee to learn more about the social work licensure in Washington and beyond!  This event is open to anyone–read more information here.

• Thursday, May 9th at 6:30pm
• Virtual via Zoom – Register for the event here!

2.) Social Work Licensure Workshop for UW SSW — Presented by Jeremy Arp, Executive Director of the Washington Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers 

This session is specifically for our UW SSW community and will cover similar information as their session on 5/9 and will also allow opportunity for follow-up questions.   This session will be recorded and available after.

• Thursday, May 16th from 12:30-1:30pm
• Log in: https://washington.zoom.us/j/92400491153

Ready to RSVP? Let us know which events you’re interested in attending so we can send you a reminder the day before: https://forms.office.com/r/sKrj8RbCXg

The Anti-Racism and Community Health (ARCH) Conference is a day-long program conference on Saturday, May 18^th from 10AM-4PM in the Hans Rosling Center for Population Health. ARCH works to facilitate a collaborative environment to identify and prioritize needs, barriers, and solutions in confronting how racism and white supremacy have caused detrimental health outcomes in our communities.

The conference will feature a range of public health professionals as speakers, workshop leaders, and panelists. As a collective, speakers and attendees will critically examine their own identities and lived experiences to question how our health has been impacted by racism. The cost of attendance for this year’s conference is $5 for UW Community members, and fee waivers are available. Food, drink, dessert & coffee are included in the ticket. You are welcome to check-in at any time before 3pm the day of the conference. More information is available on our Instagram, @scphuw! We hope to see you there!

Join the School of Social Work community for a teach-in by Dr. Nada Elia, PhD, titled “Feminism as an Indigenous Decolonial Praxis.” Dr. Elia will lecture on the historical context that led up to October 7th, including grassroots and non-violent resistance and the disproportionate and military response of Israelis towards Palestinian attempts to exercise their human rights.  All students, faculty, and staff of the School of Social Work are warmly invited.

About the facilitator:
Dr. Nada Elia is a Professor of Cultural Studies at Western Washington University, a scholar, writer, and grassroots organizer.  Dr. Elia is a vital member of the Palestinian Feminist Collective.

RSVP Here: Community Teach-In Invitation and RSVP
Date & Time: Friday May 3rd at 12pm 

Join us for a workshop on resources, rights, and advice for disabled+neurodivergent people navigating job hunts and career planning. Facilitated by the Disability Rights Washington.

Date & Time: Tuesday, May 7th from 6:30-7:30pm

Zoom link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/99111134838

RSVP for the workshop, and other SSW Spring Career Series events here: https://forms.office.com/r/sKrj8RbCXg

Registration is now open for the Northwest Nature and Health Symposium on May 1 at the Intellectual House! This year’s event features eight talks, one moderated discussion, a student poster session, and the chance to connect with interdisciplinary colleagues who are interested in conservation and health equity. Registration closes on April 27 and student scholarships are available.

Nature and Health illuminates the connections between nature and human health and well-being. We work with the community and decision makers to translate our findings into programs and policies that promote equitable engagement with nature.

Our symposia are:

• Led by our core values of equity and justice
• An opportunity to cultivate your network
• Filled with inspiring seminars and panels from leading experts

Logistics:

• Date: Wednesday, May 1, 2024
• Time: 9 AM – 5 PM PT
• Location: Intellectual House, Seattle, WA
• Registration: Register by April 27, 2024. There will be no on-site registration. $100 for professionals, $40 for students with scholarships available. Lunch and coffee/tea service are included
• Questions? Contact: natureandhealth@uw.edu

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