How are practicing social workers thinking about police defunding, prison abolition, and mass incarceration? What stances are they taking and what pressures do they face? How do they navigate their personal commitments with systems that challenge them? And how do they maintain their resilience and capacity?

Join an interactive panel conversation with four MSWs who graduated from the UW and whose practices place them squarely within the complexities of the criminal justice system. This discussion aims to shed light on social work’s role and responsibility within a rapidly changing political environment and during a critical social justice moment for our community. This panel is sponsored by the BASW Program.

Monday, November 16th, 5:30-7pm

https://washington.zoom.us/j/91602247237

Criminal Legal Systems Panel Poster

WHEN: Friday, November 13, 2020 | 12:00-3:00pm

WHERE: Online

RSVP: https://environment.uw.edu/deievents

This event offers a space for all members of the College of the Environment and UW to reflect on issues of race, power, privilege, and allyship. Through different panels, attendees will hear from the experiences and ideas from students and BIPoC leaders around social justice topics. There will be spaces to connect and discuss how to implement some of those ideas in our campus.

NOVEMBER 3, 2020: ELECTION DAY

Hello QSC Director here, I just wanted to share some words with everyone about the upcoming election. There have been rampant anti-LGBT rhetoric ads as Election Day has approached. These posts have implied that on election day there may be acts of violence against the queer community and specifically transgender POC. While these rumors are unfounded, there is no question that the next couple weeks will be filled with anxiety, confusion, and uncertainty about the future. This is not a message to instill fear or nerves, my intention is not to fear monger. Stay safe and mindful as the next couple weeks unfold. Within this newsletter there will be mental health resources, physical safety resources, and guides for allies on how to best support our queer friends.

Self Defense Tips:

a. https://safety.lovetoknow.com/personal-safety-protection/self-defense-tip
b. https://www.insider.com/best-self-defense-tips-everyone-should-know-2018-3
c. https://campussafetyuniversity.com/physical-safety-self-defense-tips-techniques/

The Trevor Project

The Trevor Project (1-866-488-7386): They specialize in young LGBTQ people’s mental health, and they’re available 24/7.They’re a great resource if you need help or just want to talk about your life

LGBT National Youth Talkline

LGBT National Youth Talkline (1-800-246-7743): The Talkline is open daily, with trained peer counselors ready to talk about mental health, dating, coming out, sexual health, or anything you need.

National Alliance on Mental Illness Helpline

National Alliance on Mental Illness Helpline (800-950-NAMI): NAMI offers a daily hotline that you can call to talk about mental health and to find resources in your area.

Understand the adversity LGBTQ people face:

To be a good ally, it’s important to understand how LGBTQ people’s gender identity and sexuality exist in relation to other social issues. The queer community has a long history with sex work, including but not limited to survival sex, or when someone will “trade sex for basic needs, such as food, shelter, and clothing.” They also face an overwhelming amount of workplace discrimination: The Williams Institute reports that lesbian, gay, and bisexual employees are more likely to report being fired from a job or denied a position compared to their straight counterparts.

A good ally offers financial support:

Crowdfunding is one of the most popular ways to directly support LGBTQ people. Rainbow Campaign hosts campaigns by LGBTQ folks, and thousands of initiatives for queer financial support can be found on GoFundMe. Searching the phrase “transgender,” for instance, brings up more than 6,000 results.

Uplift the most marginalized in the community

A good LGBTQ ally understands how to lift up not just queer voices but black queer voices, queer sex workers’ voices, and impoverished trans people’s voices, among other identities. People of color are more likely to identify as queer than whites, and we suffer disproportionately and systematically from poverty, unemployment, and other economic issues.

Valens, Ana. “Here’s What a Good LGBTQ Ally Looks Like.” Vox, Vox, 22 June 2019, www.vox.com/identities/2019/6/22/18700875/lgbtq-good-ally

Website

Instagram

Email: asuwqsc@uw.edu

A virtual drop-in support space for any student needing to talk with others, facilitated by counselors

To join the Zoom, go to https://uw-phi.zoom.us/j/92682426611

SSW student group QT (Queer/Trans) welcomes incoming and returning students and shares resources.

• Facebook group is for LGBTQ students here at UW SSW: facebook.com/groups/UWSSWQT
• The SSW has a page that lists some helpful resources-
  www.socialwork.uw.edu/trans-student-resources

The Anti-Racist White Allyship Group (also known as ARWAG) for the SSW this year is really looking forward to co-creating a space for anti-racist action, reflection, and learning in community that brings together work that’s been led by our peers.

Meeting time
Monday, October 5th at 6pm (zoom link here).
In order to make the meetings accessible to folks with different schedules while also maintaining consistency, we’d like to know what times work best for everyone to meet. Please complete this when2meet poll on behalf of your general weekly availability for fall quarter.

First Meeting
The first meeting will involve introductions, norms, an orientation to the group, community building, and a reflection and discussion based on this 60 minute lecture and interview with Ayishat Akanbi. There is a shorter version that will be shown during the meeting for those who aren’t able to watch the full interview.

Format

• We’ll plan to meet for one hour via zoom weekly (ideally the same time weekly, based on availabilities)
• The format will be inspired by the concept of praxis: “a process whereby one applies theory to practice, attempting to change a concrete situation based on that learning, and recreating theory based on that activity” (Suarez et al. 2008)
• Meetings will alternate between a focus on theory/learning and then reflection, with a highlighted action of the month that follows a basic theme (collaboratively decided by members)
• Theory focused weeks will have an education presentation from any members who are willing to share (no more than 15-30 mins) and time for discussion
• Reflection focused weeks may follow different formats such as journaling, art
• The hope is to allow members to be active contributors and allow folks to join at any time throughout the quarter/year and have an idea what to expect

Work alongside your health science colleagues to serve the needs of our local communities.

The Health Sciences Mobile Health and Outreach Van is a pilot program that works to address critical gaps in health access, and partners with local organizations such as University District Street Medicine, Georgetown Tiny House Village, and others to provide basic preventive health and street medicine services for people experiencing homelessness, housing insecurity and other barriers to accessing healthcare. In addition, the project provides interprofessional learning opportunities for health sciences students to engage with professionals and students from other disciplines, and to connect what they are learning in the classroom to a community setting.

Service learning and community engagement are ideal mechanisms for growing teamwork skills, while connecting classroom learning with real life experiences.  Students from across the health sciences are invited to demonstrate community caring through participation in programs such as The UW Listening Project and the Mobile Health and Outreach Program. We also work closely with the UW School of Medicine (SOM) Service Learning Program. For additional opportunities to work in interprofessional teams, while serving the needs of our local communities, please visit the SOM Service Learning Website.

Develop skills for working together as an interprofessional care team to provide safe, welcoming and high quality care to LGTBQ+ patients.

Register Here
https://collaborate.uw.edu/student-portal/ipals/

The Interprofessional Active Learning Series (iPALS) is a curricular IPE offering that provides opportunities for students to learn and practice the core competencies of collaborative practice. Through the use of clinical cases, examples of system-level interventions, tools for ethical decision-making, and skills for community advocacy, students are provided the opportunity to meet and work alongside future colleagues from across 12 health profession training programs.

EduMed connects students with the best and most affordable higher education programs in the medical and allied health fields. This scholarship and resource guide is designed to help transgender students find the resources they need to make their dreams a reality. It looks at academic and career tools, discusses options for social support and networking, and outlines a few financial aid options. The scholarships listed are particularly useful because they are open to transgender students interested in earning a degree in any field, including healthcare.

Transgender Students Scholarships & Resources

Application & More Information

• Seattle: https://redcap.iths.org/surveys/?s=8CWM8H4DXF&site=1&cohortyear=2020

Applications are now open for the interprofessional elective WWAMI AHEC Scholars Program. There is not a specific deadline, but spaces are open until filled.  This program is designed for students who will be a graduate student through the next two years, so good for DAY 1 and EDP 1 and 2 students.

Watch the video! Video Link:  https://youtu.be/FqsHsra3bms

Visit the website: https://depts.washington.edu/ahec/wwami-ahec-scholars-program/

 What is it?

• An interdisciplinary educational and training program focusing on increasing the diverse, culturally competent healthcare workforce that specializes in rural and underserved areas.
• It provides you with skills and experiences to better prepare you for work in these areas.
• It especially seeks to help students from disadvantaged backgrounds, rural areas, and racial/ethnic groups that are inadequately represented in health care (but that is not a stipulation for acceptance).
• The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) will identify AHEC Scholar students as having special training and experience with rural and underserved communities.

What is the structure?

• This is a two-year inter-professional program in which you would learn about other disciplines and develop team-based learning and skills that you can take into practice.
• You can take the courses for UW elective credit if you are a UW student or no credit/no cost.
• If you complete the program, you would will receive a certificate of completion.

Who can apply?

• You can apply if you are in a health professional program that ends in a certificate or degree. (The long list of accepted disciplines is in the application.)

• • Last year in Seattle, the program had students from UW Medicine, Nursing, Dentistry, Pharmacy, PT/OT, Prosthetics and Orthotics , PA (MEDEX) and N.D. students from Bastyr, Doctorate of Nursing students from Seattle University and and Shoreline Community College Nursing joined also.
  • This past year, 100 students across Washington and Idaho were enrolled in the program.

For more information contact:
Stacey L. Morrison, MLIS, MA
Associate Director, WWAMI AHEC Program Office
uwahec@uw.edu

Free webinar on Cultural Humility: Critical Issues in LGBTQIA Patient Care, training through NAADC.

Webinar is Wednesday, 7/29/20, 12pm PST

https://www.naadac.org/cultural-humility-LGBTQIA-critical-issues-webinar?_zs=Jqu2P1&_zl=a5Bq5

Community Forum: Racism during our collective health crisis

May 5th (Tuesday)
May 13th (Wednesday)
3:00 pm – 5 pm

Registration Required (link above)

This forum is intended to address the shared pain and create a safe space to be heard and validated. Additionally, your voice is important. We would love to hear from you on how we can provide support around this issue for the UW community.

Dr. Marian S. Harris, PhD, MSW, LICSW, ACSW, will be holding a lecture followed by a brief discussion focusing on her work with marginalized populations in the criminal justice system.

It will take place at the Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center from 5-730.  The event is co-sponsored by the University of Washington School of Social Work and the University of Washington School of Social Work Office of Field Education

Free event and will start with a reception and refreshments!

On Saturday, February 22nd training for any Black and Indigenous people and people of color interested in joining the global struggle for Food Sovereignty will be held 9 am to 7 pm!

The training will include a visionary fiction workshop to imagine the world after the downfall of Big Food companies, popular education on agribusiness and its influence on our education system, and an invitation to learn more about Uprooted & Rising.

The venue is very accessible and there will be childcare for anyone that needs it. If you have questions you should not hesitate to contact estefania@realfoodchallenge.org or text/call at 210-837-3205.

If you are reading this and are interested please go ahead and register here: bit.ly/unrseattle.

Here is the facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/864540720665535/874438093009131/?notif_t=plan_mall_activity&notif_id=1581467812671206

Summer Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships (FLAS)

APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 6, 2020

The South Asia Center will be re-opening our summer graduate and undergraduate Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowship competition, with an extended deadline of 5:00 pm PST March 6.

FLAS Fellowships support students from all UW departments and schools in acquiring modern foreign languages and area studies competencies. Summer FLAS Fellowships support intensive foreign language study (no area studies coursework is required).

Languages supported by South Asia Center FLAS are Bengali (Bangla), Hindi, Persian, and Urdu. Other South Asian languages subject to approval.

The summer FLAS award for undergraduate and graduate students is $5000 tuition plus $2500 stipend.

Eligibility: applicants must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident

The South Asia Summer Language Institute (SASLI, for study at UW-Madison) is a possible option for summer language study.

The SASLI application deadline is April 1, but they ask for applications as soon as possible to ensure enrollments: https://sasli.wisc.edu/

FLAS application guidelines and more information: https://jsis.washington.edu/advise/funding/flas/

Fill out the link below if you are interested in a queer/trans winter hangout event! This could be used for networking, co-working, doing puzzles / board games, watching a movie, etc.

If that sounds like something you’d be interested in, please completed this poll by THIS THURSDAY to find a time that will work for the most people:  https://www.when2meet.com/?8767870-HvPiE  

Additionally, there has been a huge bag of makeup that has been donated from Thrive Causemetics, via Ingersoll Gender Center. This high quality vegan make-up is free for anyone who is trans, nonbinary, etc, or questioning/exploring their gender identity and present at the event!

The Evans Coalition (EPOC, PCD, EISA, NOW, and OiP) are proud to present:
The Summit on Race and Equity in Public Policy
Saturday, February 15, 2020
10:30 am to 5:00 pm
UW Husky Union Building (the HUB), Room 211-A

At the Summit, we will be joined by Dr. Ben Danielson from the Odessa Brown Children’s Clinic, and Esther Lucero, CEO of the Seattle Indian Health Board, for our keynotes in the morning and afternoon, respectively. We will also host workshops on topics that include White Allyship; How to apply intersectional, anti-racist theory and strategies to public policy; Community Organizing & Public Policy with a racial equity lens; and How to effectively and equitably involve marginalized communities in the policy process. It is going to be an amazing day!

Lunch is included with the purchase of a ticket.
Tickets can be purchased here:
http://bit.ly/2RMNuoq

UW Diversity Leadership Conference  is held on Friday, February 21, from 3-7 pm it is an afternoon skill-building and intergroup dialogue conference. The theme of this year’s conference is The Personal Is Political: Showing Up for Ourselves and Others in Solidarity.

Students who attend the workshops will learn how to navigate conversations regarding the upcoming election year and propel them forward towards meaningful opportunities on and off-campus. The conference is catered by Bay Laurel with sweet treats from Seattle Pops. Students will also have the opportunity to win raffle prizes in the form of gift cards to Trader Joe’s, Safeway, and Starbucks. 

Student Registration page to sign up and attend

If you have any questions or concerns about the conference, please do not hesitate to contact eccprgms@uw.edu . 

Be sure to apply before the priority deadline: 2/15 to be considered for scholarships!!

Social Work Spain: Social Justice in Times of Crisis

UW Center, León, Spain

August 23 – September 16

Directors: Carrie Lanza and William Vesneski

SOC WF 497 (undergraduate), SOC W 597 (graduate)

VLPA and writing credit available!

5 credits for all students

The application for the program is available, here

Concerned about tobacco use in kids?  Consider taking part in Tar Wars!

Tar Wars is a tobacco-free education program for fourth- and fifth-grade students. The program is designed to teach kids about the short-term health effects of tobacco use, the cost associated with using tobacco products, and the advertising techniques used by the tobacco industry to market their products to youth.

Please bookmark the following page as we will be updating it regularly as more schools sign up. We will also send out sign-up emails when more schools join, but it will always be this same link.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bbe4BHQidS2-oIyb9rreWyIYie7_CMzoBpp4YaXZHQo/edit?usp=sharing

On this document you will find the presentation dates and school info as well as the Tar Wars lead contact information if you have any questions. The Tar Wars leader will reach out to the volunteers who signed up to finalize transportation plans and timing a few days prior to each presentation. There is no limit on the number of volunteers each day (2-3 total is normal), and if you can only make a partial day then please communicate with the Tar Wars lead for that school.

 

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