At the LGBTQ Health and Longevity Conference, we will share the results of the Washington State LGBTQ Equity & Diversity Project, hear from Karen Parker, PhD, Director, Sexual & Gender Minority Research Office, National Institutes of Health, and more!

The inaugural Generations Celebration gala represents our mission to build community support for all to live healthy and openly without fear. This gala will provide a rare opportunity for us to link lives, build bridges across LGBTQ generations and allies, and eradicate social isolation. Shellie Hart of Warm 106.9 is the emcee.

If you are unable to attend either event and would like to support an elder or someone who does not have the means to attend, please consider a tax deductible donation by contacting us at GenEvents@uw.edu or 206-543-2449.

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Looking for a low commitment way to stay engaged over the summer months? Volunteer to make breakfast at ROOTS Youth Shelter in the University District!

With the summer schedule, many of us will be short on time or out of Seattle, but ROOTS is still running and we want to keep supporting them throughout the year! We would really appreciate volunteers from across the health sciences who will be in Seattle for the summer stepping in to keep things moving.

We have availability on:

July 6th, July 20th, August 3rd, August 17th, and August 31st

Sign up for ROOTS crews here:

https://www.wejoinin.com/sheets/uplxg

Detailed information about ROOTS is attached, and please feel free to reach out to via email with any questions.

 

The Washington Career Development Association’s 4th annual PDI is only one month away! We’re very excited about this affordable and local event, which will feature Dr. Brian Hutchinson, who will lead an interactive presentation on the intersection of social justice and career development work. Career Work is Justice Work places professional career services practice (career counseling, coaching, social work, human resources, and vocational psychology) at the nexus of career intervention and social justice. Broken into 3 sections, PDI attendees will participate in the following sections:

Section 1: This interactive workshop/ discussion will explore the ideas of social justice as they are embedded in the work we do. Participants will learn about the neuroscience behind justice ideas, how these apply to the world of work, and develop a conceptual framework for applying justice principles to your practice;

Section 2: Justice Work in Action will provide participants 3 individual interventions that foster justice and critical conciseness in practice – each intervention will be demonstrated/ practiced and then reflected upon by the group; and

Section 3 will foster participants’ own development within the paradigm of justice work including one individual and one experiential group work activity.

The event will also feature breakout sessions on relevant topics including pay discrimination, working with employers to promote equitable hiring practices, and advocating for/with clients with intellectual disabilities. For more information, please visit https://mywcda.org/event-3235989

 

• PDI + Annual Membership – $125.00
  Registration fee includes annual WCDA membership.
• Student/Retiree Membership + PDI – $75.00
  This registration is for students currently enrolled in a program or course work related to career development, or retired career development professionals.

Please check out our website for more information on the WCDA.

Hope to see you there!

Homelessness in Seattle – 2019 flyer

HOMELESSNESS IN SEATTLE – MEDEX 580A (2 credits)

THIS COURSE WILL EXTEND UNDERSTANDING OF THIS COMPLEX SOCIAL JUSTICE ISSUE AND HOW THE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM CAN RESPOND TO THE NEEDS OF THOSE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS.

WHEN: Tuesdays, April 2 – June 4 from 6pm – 8pm

The SLN for the course is 21532. It meets in the Health Science Room-Our MEDEX ROOM T-T 483-85

Join Social Justice Fund NW and Progress Alliance on Wednesday, March 6, 6:30-8:30 pm for an evening workshop on political giving for people of color.

REGISTER HERE TO ATTEND

We’ll explore how people of color are giving, and why politics is one part of a multi-faceted strategy for your giving. Hear from Kirsten Harris-Talley, Program Director of Progress Alliance and former interim Seattle City Councilmember, and Nicole Vallestero Keenan-Lai Executive Director of Puget Sound Sage.

Dinner provided and childcare available upon request.

Political Giving Workshop

March 6, 2019

Washington State Labor Council

321 16th Ave S. Seattle, WA 98144

6:30-8:30 pm

REGISTER

This event is for People of Color only.* Feel free to invite friends who identify as people of color and are interested in connecting with SJF. (But please make sure they register too!)

*Why is this event for people of color (POC) only? We know that many spaces in our society (and in Seattle in particular) are overwhelmingly white, and sometimes a POC-only space can be an affirming and strengthening experience. White allies, thanks for understanding the need for this POC space. For white folks who have questions or would like to organize with other white people, please contact Rebecca Allen at rebecca@socialjusticefund.org.

Questions? Contact Mano at mano@socialjusticefund.org or Precious at precious@washingtonprogress.org.

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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Sister Spit 2019 x NW Film Forum
(Thursday, February 28, 2019) 7 PM – 9 PM @ Northwest Film Forum
1515 12th Ave, Seattle, Washington 98122
7 artists
2 hours of QTPOC brilliance

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION:

• The main floor of the Forum, including the theaters and lobby, are accessible via a ramp. We have one restroom on the main floor built to ADA standards.
• An affordable pay parking lot is available 3 blocks from the Northwest Film Forum at the Greek Orthodox Church at 13th and Howell.
• Street parking is metered from 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m., Monday – Saturday, and free all day on Sundays.

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Winter Quarter Social Justice Film Series
(Wednesday, February 27, 2019) 6:30 PM

• The Kelly ECC is back with another social justice film series for winter quarter!
• Each Wednesday evening at 6:30, we’ll be screening a film in the main lobby! We hope to see you there!

February’s Focus: Black History Month
March’s Focus: Women’s History Month
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FILM LINE-UP
• February 27: Dark Girls
• March 6: Ladies First
• March 13: Neerja

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION: 

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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

You are invited to our annual Lobby Day for Health Equity!

What is Lobby Day? Every year on President’s Day (Feb. 18), Health Equity Circle brings 50+ students (from schools of public health, nursing, medicine, law, social work, and more) to Olympia to voice support for or against the passage of specific bills that are critical to health equity in WA. During Lobby Day, small teams will meet with individual policymakers to tell their stories and influence votes. Not only is Lobby Day a chance to advance policy around social justice issues, it’s a great opportunity to gain lobbying skills, become familiar with the legislative process in WA, and meet students from across UW.

When is Lobby Day? Monday, February 18 (Presidents’ Day), 9am – 3pm, meet at 6:30am to carpool to Olympia

How do I prepare? We will be holding two training sessions on lobbying in the two weeks prior to Lobby Day, and all we ask is that you come to one of them! (Dates and times TBD)

Questions? Please direct any inquiries to hec.lobbyday@gmail.com.

How to Sign Up:  https://goo.gl/forms/qj7TRumWu0n9x8gk2

You do not need to be affiliated with Health Equity Circle to attend. Please spread the word to your classmates & colleagues!

POWERFUL CITIZENSHIP IN 2019

How will you activate your civic power this year? 

Join us for inspiring conversations on local and global themes with visiting student leaders from southern Africa! 
Roundtable Discussions on Southern Africa
Wednesday, February 23
5:30-7:30pm (arrive any time – conversations will be ongoing!)
University of Washington, Odegaard Library Room 220
Refreshments will be served

Register: https://fiutsroundtable.eventbrite.com
This event brings together participants in the Study of the U.S. Institute (SUSI) on Civic Engagement from Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa, and Zimbabwe with individuals from the Seattle area.

Discussion topics will include human rights, gender issues, public health, youth and education, and more. Learn about these young leaders’ successes, hopes, and challenges as they create initiatives to improve their home communities, and share your own experiences and ideas for resources that might be useful or inspiring to them.
More information about the FIUTS SUSI program: www.fiuts.org/susi

FIUTS (Foundation for International Understanding Through Students)
www.fiuts.org

This event is sponsored by FIUTS, the Center for Global Studies, and UW Libraries

Email ellen@fiuts.org for more information

Ellen Frierson

Manager of Education Programs

FIUTS: Foundation for International Understanding Through Students

I am reaching out because I remember in many of my undergrad courses at UW I was able to get involved in volunteering opportunities that eventually lead to jobs and then my career. I am looking for volunteers for King County’s point-in-time count (locally known as Count Us In – formally known as One Night Count) on January 25, 2019 from 2am-6am (yup, AM)!

Count Us In, is an annual visual count of individuals experiencing homelessness. The purpose of the Count Us In  is to collect data that is used to inform our system response to the needs in our community in order to make homelessness rare, brief, and one-time.

I am reaching out to the Social Work department intentionally because I know that student volunteers with help carry out the visual count as compassionately, humanely, and respectfully as possible when walking/driving in the spaces people have sought shelter when shelters are often full.

I hope students will sign up and encourage friends and family to sign up too. King County needs over 1000 volunteers to commit to an accurate count. Deployment sites will be all over from Enumclaw, Sammamish, Bothell, Vashon, University District and downtown Seattle.

Please have student register to be a volunteer at: http://allhomekc.org/king-county-point-in-time-pit-count/

If you know people with lived homelessness experience we are also looking for paid guides. I am hopeful to see some familiar faces and UW students out volunteering. Also feel free to have students reach out to me melissa.espinoza@kingcounty.gov if they know areas well and would like to be team captains the night of the count.

*2019 Anne Braden Anti-racist Organizer Training Program for white social justice activists* <Anne Braden Anti-Racist Organizer Training Program for white social justice activists>

*Location:* Oakland, CA (travel stipends,*  childcare,** and housing*** available for some participants — see below)

*Dates for in person sessions: *3 four-day weekends:

– February 22 – 25 (Friday – Monday)

– April 12 – 15 (Friday – Monday)

– May 31 – June 3 (Friday – Monday)

*Cost:* $0-$3,500. Details on sliding scale are in the application. We have a strong commitment to making this program accessible to people regardless of ability to pay, and a strong commitment to building poor and working class leadership in our movements.

*Apply now

Anne Braden Anti-Racist Organizer Training Program Application!

The deadline to apply is November 19th, 2018. *  Applications will you take some time to complete, so please plan ahead!

*Background*

Catalyst Project runs the Anne Braden Anti-racist Organizer Training Program for white social justice activists in order to strengthen racial justice vision, strategy, analysis, leadership, and organizing skills in white communities. This program is different from previous Braden programs Catalyst ran in the Bay Area because participants don’t need to live locally to attend, and instead will travel to the Bay Area for three four-day-weekends. This program is designed  to support white activists and organizers in becoming accountable, principled and strategic anti-racist change-makers.

*Program Description*

This program is part political education, part leadership development and personal transformation work, and part organizing training.  It’s not a series of “101” style workshops, but a rigorous political education and leadership development program intended to support white activists in becoming more effective, historically-grounded anti-racist organizers, leaders, and multi-racial movement builders. We are asking that applicants already be actively engaged in grassroots organizing work and commit to staying in and reflecting on that work for the course of the program. Participants should plan on spending an average of 4 hours/week of work between the in-person sessions.

*Participants in the Anne Braden Anti-Racist Training Program:*

•    – Develop an understanding of white supremacy as it interconnects with patriarchy, capitalism, heterosexism, imperialism, settler-colonialism, the gender binary system and the state
•    – Learn about histories of resistance and liberation, and about social justice movements today
•    – Learn about transformative organizing and develop anti-racist organizing skills
•    – Receive mentorship and anti-racist leadership development
•    – Learn tools for anti-racist strategy development, campaigns, leadership development, communications work, and alliance-building

*This program is a good fit for people who are trying to build these skills:*

•   – Organizing white people into more effective racial justice work, and developing other social justice leaders
•   -Building alliances with organizations led by people of color and building stronger relationships with organizers of color
•   – Moving racial justice from an “issue area” into a centralized strategy and approach to all of your organization’s work
•   – Strengthening anti-racist culture in your organization by aligning your internal policies, practices with your mission and external work
•   – Centralizing anti-racism in your campaigns, communications, and membership work
•   –  Moving from a diversity-based approach to an racial justice approach, and having a more historically grounded & systemic analysis of current  issues
•   –  Supporting and building the leadership of people of color in your staff, board and/or membership without being tokenizing
•   – Organizing in complicated political contexts, connecting with what keeps you in this work for the long haul, and being able to take more risks for collective liberation
•    – Developing racial justice politics and practice that are class-conscious, feminist, and anti-ableist.

*Who Should Apply?*

The program is designed for social justice activists and organizers with white-skin privilege who are looking to grow in their anti-racist skills, analysis, and practice. Poor and working-class folks, women, LGBT and queer folks, Jewish people, and members of grassroots social justice organizations are highly encouraged to apply. *We will prioritize applicants currently engaged in grassroots organizing in working class communities, particularly working on*:

•    – economic justice
•    – fighting war and militarization
•    – climate and/or environmental justice
•    – Indigenous sovereignty (locally and globally),
•    – migrant justice
•    – work against policing, imprisonment and surveillance
•    – electoral work that seeks to build progressive power in working class communities and communities of color, including ballot initiatives and stopping voter suppression/discrimination.

*Travel Stipends, Childcare, and Housing Support* *We will offer full and partial travel stipends for some participants in the program whose organizations will not cover their travel costs. We will prioritize these for poor and working class participants, but may be able to offer partial stipends to middle class participants who wouldn’t otherwise be able to come.

**We will offer onsite childcare for people who live in the Bay Area and stipends for people traveling from out out town who would otherwise need to pay for extra childcare.

***We will provide free community housing for anyone coming from out of town who doesn’t already have a place to stay. We cannot guarantee things like private rooms, but will work with people’s access needs.

More information and frequently asked questions on our website.

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*Who is Catalyst Project?*

Catalyst Project helps to build powerful multiracial movements that can win collective liberation. We organize in majority white sectors of social justice movements with the goal of deepening anti-racist commitment in white communities and helping to build multiracial movements for collective liberation. We do this by creating spaces for activists to collectively develop deeper political analysis, vision, strategy and organizing skills.

Our work is based in the belief that all people have a right to dignity, housing, food, healthcare, meaningful work and healthy communities. We organize with the understanding that anti-racism can be a catalyst for challenging all forms of oppression and creating fundamental change.

Dear NCORE Community Member,

We are hard at work on our 32nd National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in American Higher Education and we cannot wait for you to see what we have in store. In the meantime, we encourage you to join the conversation and submit a presentation proposal!

Presentations should pertain to the ongoing and emerging racial and ethnic social justice issues in today’s higher education institutions and beyond. Because NCORE is comprehensive in scope, we are looking for presentations that accomplish one or all of the following key objectives:

• Facilitate constructive dialogue, understanding, and action around significant issues within or between significant conference constituencies, i.e. racial/ethnic groups, gender identity groups, students, faculty, affirmative action officers, student life personnel, professionals, geographical regions, and/or different types of higher education institutions.
• Provide important insight, perspective, skills, tools, and strategies that foster action, solutions, and practical application.
• Discuss efforts to create inclusive higher education environments, programs, and curriculum or expand opportunities for the educational access and success of culturally diverse and traditionally underrepresented populations. Efforts can be specific or comprehensive and in development or fully operational.
• Highlight exemplary actions, programs, approaches, and models.
• Cultivate nuanced intersectional understanding and build solidarity to make positive institutional advances.

Please refer to the Call for Presentations on the NCORE website to see suggested areas of emphasis, additional requested topics, and proposal submission details.

Submission Deadline:

Monday, November 26, 2018 (11:59 PM (PST))

Submit your proposal HERE

Have a question? Please visit us at ncore.ou.edu or email us at ncore@ou.edu.

Rise Up! CAGJ Summer School 2018

Rise Up! CAGJ Summer School is an anti-oppression leadership development program exploring food sovereignty movements situated in our local contexts. We prioritize perspectives and voices of people of color and queer activists in the materials and discussions. By deepening our connections and building community, we hope to create a safe space to explore learning edges and encourage newer activists to rise up in leadership.

The 3-month program will delve into our campaign-related themes of African food sovereignty, Farmworker solidarity, and Northwest Native Resistance to GE Salmon through community discussions and site visits. Perspectives of people of color will be prioritized in the materials and discussions as we focus on anti-oppression and intersectional analysis. We will develop the leadership of members involved in the organizing and facilitation and hope to create a safe space to encourage newer activists to explore learning edges and rise up in leadership.

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WCPC Seminar Series on Poverty & Public Policy

“Black Men, Emerging Adulthood, and Criminal Desistance in an Urban Community”

Charles Lea

School of Social Work, UW
Monday May 7th
12:30 – 1:30 pm
Q&A until 2:00 pm
Social Work Building
Room 305A

ABSTRACT: Despite reductions in the U.S. penal population, young adult Black men who are transitioning into adulthood remain at increased risk of recidivating. While research has advanced our knowledge about factors that are positively associated with criminal desistance, less is known about the events, stages, and processes that formerly incarcerated young adult Black men perceive to support their desistance from crime. As such, with Critical Race Theory as the guiding frame, this paper examines formerly incarcerated young adult Black men’s perceptions of the transitions that facilitate their desistance from crime within the urban context.

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