As most of you know, in Soc W 506, many students do surveys of current MSW students for their 506 projects.  To assist your colleagues, please respond to as many of these projects as you’re able:

NEW PROJECTS (being sent out for the first time!  Please respond if you can!)

• Student Satisfaction Survey
• Jessica Figueroa, jfiguer@uw.edu
• Target audience: All current MSW students
• Link:  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdmrGB6njS9MOsh9wfMxM1CGjC2O0galZwF4oV7AJC0MBlBFA/viewform
• Deadline: May 11th

 

• Perceptions of Cultural Diversity of Students in the MSW Program at the UW
• Kristen Alstott , ka19@uw.edu
• Target Audience: MSW students who will graduate in 2019 (First year DAY students and 2^nd year EDP students)
• Link: https://qtrial2018q2az1.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3f4WhTBVX0Oxm3X
•   (this was sent out last week but link didn’t work correctly.)
• Deadline: noon on 5/11 for chance to win $25 Amazon gift card

 

• MSW Student Satisfaction Survey 
• Miya Yung, miyayung@uw.edu
• Target Audience: All current MSW students at UW (first year day, second year day, EDP, Advanced Standing)
• Link: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/miyayung/353275
• Deadline: 5/6/2018

 

• MSW Foundation Practicum Experience 
• Tiffany Brace, bracet@uw.edu
• MSW students currently in a Foundation Practicum
• https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/YRQZZRR
• Submit by May 4

 

• School of Social Work: Graduate Students of Color Survey 
• Tiana Brawley/ tsbrawley@gmail.com
• Target audience: School of social work graduate students of color
• Link:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe50H52G2zy92uJwZOrnpw7nOCyye225WnYeoiKWtStuzDuZQ/viewform  (if link isn’t live right away, please try again in a day or so)
• Deadline: May 11th

 

• Mindfulness and Self-Care in the UW School of Social Work Program
• Tascha R. Johnson, taschaj@uw.edu
• Target Audience: all MSW students
• Link: https://goo.gl/forms/Rhink6nhbOK8nEEm2
• Deadline: May 9th
• Current levels of self-compassion and self-care of current UW MSW students and alumni  
• Natasha Breidenbach, ndbre@uw.edu
• Target audience: MSW students and alum – all years
• Link:  https://goo.gl/forms/glPMN6MCb111tQ1k1
• Deadline: May 11th

PROJECTS (previously sent out last week, so if you did these last week, don’t do them again.)

• Read more

Next week will bring another Science Wednesday to SDRG!

May 2, 9-10 am, Cascade conference room
@SDRG
9725 3rd Ave NE, Suite 401
Seattle, WA

Angelique Day<http://socialwork.uw.edu/faculty/professors/angelique-day>, faculty in the School of Social Work, will be talking to us about the national foster/adopt/kinship parent training evaluation.

See you then!

Sabrina Oesterle, Ph.D.

Assistant Director | Social Development Research Group
Research Associate Professor | School of Social Work
University of Washington
9725 3rd Ave. NE, Suite 401, Seattle, WA 98115
phone 206.221.4917 | fax 206.543.4507
http://sdrg.org<http://www.sdrg.org/> | http://socialwork.uw.edu/

The UW Anti-Racism Alliance is holding a founding assembly to bring together students, faculty and staff from across the University committed to making the UW and Anti-racist institution.

The focus of the Alliance is to:

LEARN: about all the anti-racism efforts going on across campus

CONNECT: so we can build collective power

CREATE: a truly equitable university

HOLD ACCOUNTABLE: our leadership to fulfill our mission

Wednesday, May 9th 5:30

Health Sciences T-wing 439

Thank you for your interest in Healthy Equity Circle’s Anti-Racism Alliance. We would like to learn about existing anti-racism efforts that you know of, especially from those who are unable to attend our initial meeting in May.

We would greatly appreciate if you filled out the survey below:

https://goo.gl/forms/yM1Oq5Zeg3QWqMZC3

Your fellow students in Soc W 506 this quarter desperately need survey responses for their projects from other MSW students. Please review titles and deadlines below and respond to as many as you have time. There will be a second batch of surveys going out towards this end of this week. Your peers thank you.

PROJECTS
Social Media’s Impact On Credible News Consumption
Hadley Cronk, Hcronk@uw.edu
Target Audience: all UW MSW students
Link: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/hcronk/352784
Deadline: May 2nd

UW MSW Student Perceptions of Substance Users
Meghan Rowley , mrowley2@uw.edu
Target Audience: First year MSW students
Link: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/mrowley2/352794
Deadline: May 2nd

Perceptions of Poverty and MSW student’s Social Work Practice
Students Conducting Research:
Lily Cory lcory94@gmail.com
Alex Strout astrout@uw.edu
Target Audience: All MSW students (1st, 2nd, Advanced, EDP)
Link: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/astrout/353262
Deadline: May 2nd

LGBTQ Social Work Identity
Nick Dominique, nd11@uw.edu
Target audience: All students in any MSW program, specifically those who identify as LGBTQ
Link: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/nd11/353526
Deadline: May 4th

Perceptions of Cultural Diversity of Students in the MSW Program at the UW
Kristen Alstott , ka19@uw.edu
Target Audience: MSW students who will graduate in 2019 (First year DAY students and 2nd year EDP students)
Link (do NOT take survey until 6pm on 4/23) https://qtrial2018q2az1.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3f4WhTBVX0Oxm3X:
Deadline: noon on 5/11 for chance to win $25 Amazon gift card

Mapping Change Ideologies
Melina Di Stefano, melina.j.distefano@gmail.com
Target audience: All MSW graduate students (advanced, day, extended)
Link: Mapping Change Ideologies
Deadline: May 11th, 2018

The Housing Alliance invites you to join us at our 2018 Conference on Ending Homelessness. This year’s conference will take place on May 22 and May 23, 2018 at the Yakima Convention Center in Yakima, WA. Early bird registration is now open, and here are some important dates to remember:

• April 2, 2018: scholarship application deadline
• April 25, 2018: deadline for special hotel rates 
• April 30, 2018: early bird registration rate deadline

Register Here

The conference will bring together over 600 advocates, service providers, government officials, and stakeholders from across Washington for two days of learning, networking, and advocacy to strengthen Washington’s movement to end homelessness. Check out our full conference program here; program highlights include:

• Trainings on the intersection of homelessness and racial justice
• Discussions of policy solutions at the local, state, and federal levels
• Building the public will to end homelessness through community organizing and communication
• Sessions on the intersection of homelessness, physical health, and behavioral health
• Trainings on direct service delivery best practices

This year’s conference will also feature a Pre-Conference K-12 Student Homelessness Training on May 21, 2018. This training has a separate registration, and folks can opt to register just for this training, or both the training and the full conference.

Homelessness among K-12 students has more than doubled over the past decade in communities across Washington, and this training will bring together people working to support K-12 students experiencing homelessness for an all-day learning and networking event. This special event is ideal for education, affordable housing, homelessness, state and local government, and similar community stakeholders. Check-out the full program here; training topics will include:

• The rights of K-12 students experiencing homelessness
• Cross-sector community collaborations to end student homelessness
• Models to support unaccompanied youth who are homeless

Register Here

Have questions about the Conference on Ending Homelessness or Pre-Conference K-12 Student Homelessness Training? Visit our conference website or contact Housing Alliance staff at conference@wliha.org.

We hope you to see you in Yakima in May!

Please join us for The Reparations Tour: White Solidarity with the Black Power Blueprint in Seattle!

The Black Power Blueprint, a campaign of the Uhuru Movement, is building economic development programs for self-determination by and for the black community in St. Louis. St. Louis can become a model of a depressed African community taking shape under the African People’s Education and Defense Fund (APEDF.org) in partnership with Black Star Industries. The Seattle event is part of a national tour of 12 cities where speakers involved with the Black Power Blueprint will share the incredible institutions being built, and show how white people can play a critical role in supporting the self-determination of black working-class people to feed, clothe and house themselves.

Sunday, March 18, 2018

3:00 PM – 5:00 PM PST

Location:

University Heights Center

5031 University Way NE #109

Seattle, WA 98105

Speakers include:

Bakari Olatunji – Black Star Industries
Penny Hess – Chair, African People Solidarity Committee, author of “Overturning the Culture of Violence”
Jesse Nevel – Chair, Uhuru Solidarity Movement

2:30pm – Doors open
3:00pm – Program Begins
5:00pm – Program ends

***The Facebook page is: http://tiny.cc/ReparationsTourSeattle

***The Registration for the event is: seattle2018reparationstour.eventbrite.com

Reclaiming Common Ground: A Cross Border Social Justice Conference

NWTSJ is excited to share this upcoming event for educators. From the organizers at http://crossborderconference.weebly.com:

We are excited to have Naomi Klein and Seth Klein as our keynote speakers, a rare opportunity!

We are pleased to invite you to register for our conference. Recent history in the US and Canada records multiple attacks on public education in many forms. Public education as a common space, the foundation of a democratic society, has lost ground over the past 10 years. It’s time to reclaim the space that’s been lost to the voices of hate, bigotry and neoliberalism.  It’s time for teachers to re-engage in their important role in the process of social transformation.

Teachers from British Columbia, Oregon, and Washington will come together to connect across borders in the face of common threats.

We have just picked most of our workshops and will post the roster on our website next week. We would still like workshop submissions on feminism, undocumented students (border issues), and environmentalism, if there are activists among you who would like to submit. Please visit our event website for details and to submit proposals.

Please join in Odegaard Library’s new project: Recommended Reads for Equity.

Recommended Reads for Equity engages the UW community in critical conversations, reading, critical thinking and community building; all of which are essential to lifelong learning and engaged citizenship. Guided by the UW community, Odegaard Library will collect recommendations for books about equity, diversity, and inclusion and create opportunities to share recommendations and hold conversations and discussions as a whole campus community. The community’s recommendations will be used to build a new book collection in Odegaard Library, ultimately creating a lasting legacy of UW’s commitment to equity.

We are currently accepting recommendations through our online form. We’d love to hear your reading recommendations! Submit online at https://tinyurl.com/reads4equity. 
If you have questions or comments, please contact Odegaard staff members Emilie Vrbancic at vrbancic@uw.edu or Steve Weber at seweber@uw.edu. This project is sponsored by a UW Diversity and Inclusion Seed Grant and the University of Washington Libraries.

Dear MSW program:

Pacific University’s Master of Social Work Program is committed to social and economic justice, the prevention of conditions that limit human rights, the elimination of poverty, and the enhancement of the quality of life for all persons. As part of realizing this commitment, we are supporting the advancement of human rights and social justice through the MSW Journal of Human Rights & Social Justice.

In response to the current political climate and concurrent contemporary violations of human rights, we are inviting interdisciplinary masters level students nationally and abroad to submit to the 2018 edition. This is a great opportunity for MSW students to collectively take part in contributing knowledge toward addressing human rights and social justice issues.

If you have any questions, please email us at humanrights@pacificu.edu. For submission guidelines visit: http://humanrights.scholasticahq.com.

 

Are you interested in doing outreach within the local UW community, particularly with those experiencing homelessness?

Are you interested in working within an interprofessional group and in getting to know students within the other health sciences disciplines (Social Work, Nursing, Public Health, Medicine, Physical Therapy, Pharmacy, Dental, etc.)? 

 

Please come to University District Street Medicine’s (UDSM) recruitment event on February 20th at 5:45 P.M. UDSM seeks to help those experiencing homelessness in the University District overcome barriers to accessing healthcare.

We provide basic assessments, first aid, and information on local resources within an interdisciplinary model as we strive to build relationships of trust within our local community.

Please come to learn more about UDSM and how you can get involved as a leader or a volunteer.

 

Date: Tuesday, February 20th at 5:45 P.M.

Location: Health Sciences Building, Room number TBD.

Food/refreshments will be provided.
Please sign up by February 18th on this wejoin in sheet so we know how much food to get.

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

Greetings community change makers!

I hope that despite the current political and social climate your spirits are not broken and you are finding hope in our collective expression and resistance.   In critical times such as these, we want to extend an invitation to you and your representing organizations/communities to consider joining the Rainier Beach High School community for our 4th annual “BLOC Party” on Wednesday, March 28th from 9:00am-12:30pm.  

The “BLOC” (Building Leaders of Change) Party is a transformative “day of social justice” that includes a powerful assembly with student performances, as well as 40 community-led interactive workshops that will build our collective power and make a difference in our community! (See our 2017 BLOC Party video here!)

We are currently looking for community leaders/facilitators/activists/educators/artists to lead (1) 90 minute workshop on a topic of their choice through a social justice lens. Broad themes include: identity, justice, arts and activism, cultural history, career exploration, etc.  Will you consider conducting a workshop at this year’s BLOC Party that help will inform, inspire, and equip the young people at Rainier Beach High School in the work of justice?

To SUBMIT a workshop proposal or learn about more details click HERE.  Submissions are due Wednesday Feb. 14^th by 4pm.  Attached are sample workshops from previous years for reference here!

If you have any questions, please contact Laura Wright at lwright@wa-bloc.org/ 970.618.8134 or Ifrah Abshir at abshirifrah@gmail.com/ 206.334.3528.

Let’s pull together! (Harambee)

WA-BLOC team

Washington Building Leaders of Change | Rainier Beach High School

www.wa-bloc.org

For National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week, the UW Chapter of WashPIRG has coordinated a panel of social workers, people studying homelessness, and people currently/formerly experiencing homelessness coming to speak at the university. The panel will be on Nov. 14th, from 5-7 p.m. in Smith 211. The speakers come from DESC, Real Change News, WeCount, Street Soccer Seattle, Capitol Hill Housing, and REACH, and will speak on the “definition” of homelessness, the criminalization of homelessness and poverty, the housing affordability crisis, and intersectionality in homelessness.  The panel will include an MSW alum.

Questions?
Rosa Mai
Hunger and Homelessness Campaign Coordinator
WashPIRG – UW Chapter
206.822.7321
rosamai@uw.edu

Hello students,

I am from Health & Wellness and along with Patricia Atwater in Hall Health, we would like to provide an opportunity for students who are doing work in the areas of health, well-being, safety and social justice to get together. The purpose of the meeting is to get to know each other, hear about events and programs that are planned throughout the year and find ways to collaborate. Our proposed agenda is:

1. Introduction and a UW student leader perspective
2. Speed meeting activity
3. Student Well-Being Collaborative overview
4. Mapping the events and programs throughout the year
5. Time to connect and collaborate
6. Decide how this group can be helpful going forward

Let us know if you have any thoughts, comments, questions and please fill out this doodle to get the meeting scheduled by the end of the quarter. Food will be provided!

We look forward to meeting you all and working together this year.

Talk soon,

Melissa

Melissa Tumas, MPH

Training and Education Coordinator

Health & Wellness | Student Life

University of Washington

109 Elm Hall | Box 355600

206.221.7187

www.livewell.uw.edu

Racial Stamina & Racial Justice Work: What’s Mindfulness + Compassion Got to Do With It? 

Join us for this free public lecture, with Dr. Angela Rose Black, Founder & CEO of Mindfulness For the People, LLC. In this presentation, Dr. Black will highlight the critical intersection between racial stamina, racial justice, and the utility of mindfulness and compassion-based techniques in supporting both. Key concepts will be introduced including racial stamina, white fragility, mindfulness, and compassion. In addition, contrasting racial justice activism models will be highlighted with real-world applications.

January 18, 2018 7:30-9:00pm

Registration is required. Register for free here.

Dear Health Sciences Student Community,

Welcome new and returning students!  We would like to introduce everyone to the Health Equity Circle, a collective of health sciences students organizing around social justice issues pertaining to the health of our communities around Seattle and beyond.  We believe that our obligations as healthcare providers extend beyond the traditional American medical model, and that we must understand and address the social contexts of our patients as part of holistic patient care.  You are all invited to our first social, on October 3, 2016, from 5:30 – 6:30 pm, South Campus Center, room 224. Come hang out with us and talk about the things you care about!

Please RSVP here (https://www.wejoinin.com/sheets/brqbj) if you plan on coming! Food will be provided!!!

JOIN US FOR AN EVENING OF FILM, FOOD, MUSIC, AND SPEAKERS AS WE BUILD SOLIDARITY FOR INDIGENOUS RESISTANCE!

FROM STANDING ROCK TO THE SALISH SEA, “Building Solidarity with Indigenous Resistance!”

When: Tuesday, May 30th, 5:30-8:30 pm

Where: Lagunitas Tap Room, 1550 NW 49th St, Seattle 98107

Speakers:

Tracy Rector (Seminole) is a film director and Executive Director and co-founder of Longhouse Media, Dana Arviso (Diné) is Executive Director of the Native-led non-profit Potlatch Fund, Ryan Yellowjohn (Shoshone Bannock) is an artist, Charlotte Coté (Tseshaht/Nuu-chah-nulth) is UW Associate Professor and President of the Native-led nonprofit Potlatch Fund, John Eklof (Filipino American) is writer, educator, and community organizer.

$5.00 cover charge at the door, 21 and older.

* This event is a fundraiser for Na’ah Illahee Fund’s Ah-da-ne-hi Indigenous Women’s Giving Circle to Support First Nations Stands for Water.

Food from Off the Rez Indian Tacos

Join LGBTQ Allyship’s Housing Leadership Institute!!

Are you someone who is passionate about any of the following LGBTQ housing justice issues?

• Gentrification and displacement
• Senior housing
• Youth homelessness
• Affordable and community-owned housing
• Housing discrimination

At Allyship, we believe everyone deserves to access a safe place, space, and community that feels like home! Housing justice is an essential piece of creating a sense of home – and we know that for too many in our communities, there are real barriers to having the basic things we need to survive, live with dignity, and thrive. We can do better, which means we need to get more LGBTQ people who’ve been directly impacted by unaffordable housing, displacement, homelessness, and discrimination to inform the next generation of policies, practices, and organizing approaches that will make the communities we’re part of safer and more livable!

If you are a person who is passionate about LGBTQ housing justice, we hope you’ll sign up to join our LGBTQ Housing Leadership Institute!   

What You’ll Learn: LGBTQ Allyship believes that in order to build strong communities we must have strong leaders. Through this institute, a cohort of 15 people will be trained in the following:

• Civic engagement skills
• Anti-Oppression Values
• Allyship’s Theory of Change

You will:

• Learn from housing experts from city and state government and from organizations doing the work at ground level.
• Gain technical skills
• Become familiar with public speaking, story sharing in all forms of media, event planning, story-collecting for advocacy, advocacy skills community-led resource gathering, mobilization, community organizing skills and an analysis around the connection between racism, classism, sexism, adultism and ageism.

Sign up today!

Who We Are Looking for:

1. 10 to 15 LGBTQ grassroot progressive advocates/activists
2. Ages 18 and up welcome, affected by housing instability (candidates under age 18 will be considered on a case by case basis!)
3. A commitment of (6) 5-hour training dates plus a 3-hour orientation
4. Ability to volunteer 5 to 7 hours a month
5. Ability to attend all trainings, planning meetings and social Gatherings (some exceptions allowed)
6. An open mind and a willingness to learn to be a better ally, advocate for LGBTQ youth and elders issues and approach work from an intersectional lens

History & Funding
This is our 3rd Leadership Institute, and we are able to offer this training for free due to individual donors, and private grants from the Pride Foundation and Communities of Opportunites.

Interested?

Sign up or email Kelsen Caldwell at kelsen@allyship.org

LGBTQAllyship.org
https://www.facebook.com/LGBTQAllyship
https://twitter.com/Allyship

Thank you, Verity Credit Union, for hosting our Leadership Institute Orientation this year!

Sámi Role in Arctic Affairs: Politics, Research and Activism
20 June 2017 | 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. | UW Club, Yukon Room
 University of Washington
Space is limited – registration required
Clock hours available to K- 12 Teachers upon request. 
A light breakfast, lunch and dinner are provided

Since the 1970’s the global Indigenous movement, building on the human rights movement, has gained considerable momentum. In 2000, the United Nations founded the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues as the central coordinating body for matters related to Indigenous peoples; in 2007, the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was ratified establishing international legal norms. Indigenous peoples are now playing a significant role in influencing international affairs via new transnational networks. The Sámi are a model for such influence.

Join us on June 20th for this one-day conference. Most of the presenters are Sámi themselves, working with aspects on reclaiming Sámi identities and the struggle for the Sámi right to survival and well-being. Scholars and activists will present their work followed by an open discussion with all participants and guests. We will end the day with dinner and a discussion of future directions for Sámi studies and collaborations followed by a screening of “Sámi Blood“.

Special Guest Speakers: 

Lis-Mari Hjortfors |  Umeå University, Sámi Studies, Department of Language Studies
Margaretha Uttjek | Department of Social Work, Umeå University, Sweden
May-Britt Öhman |  Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University; the Association of Sámi Related Research in Uppsala; Deputy Member of the Swedish Sámi Parliament; member of Technoscience Research Group
Inge Frisk | Stockholm Sámi Association, member of Technoscience Research Group, Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University
Astri Dankertsen | Nord University, Norway
Troy Storfjell | Scandinavian Area Studies Program, Department of Languages and Literatures, Pacific Lutheran University
Karin Eriksson | Scandinavian Studies, University of Washington

This event is sponsored by the International Policy Institute (funded by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York) and Arctic and the International Relations initiative, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies; the Canadian Studies Center, Center for West European Studies, and Center for Global Studies; UW’s Scandinavian Studies; and UW’s Future of Ice initiative.

To request disability accommodation contact the Disability Services Office at least ten days in advance at:  206) 543-6450/V, (206) 543-6452/TTY, (206) 685-7264 (FAX), or dso@u.washington.edu.

Working for Social Justice

Thursday, May 11 @ 4:00pm – 6:00pm.

UW HUB, Room 145

The event will feature UW alumni discussing their career paths and experiences fighting for social justice. This is a great opportunity for both graduate and undergraduate students to find out about career options upon graduation.

Join the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies on our career panel:

–  Learn about career options in government, the legal sector, unions, non-profits and many more.

–  Find out about paid-internship opportunities with local labor organizations
–  Hear how graduate students can apply their skills and education in non-academic settings

–  Enjoy drinks and refreshments!
RSVPs are not required, but are requested. To RSVP, contact the Bridges Center at 206-543-7946, or e-mail hbcls@uw.edu

Interested but unable to attend? Visit the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies in Smith Hall, room M266 (mezzanine level). Appointments encouraged. More information at http://depts.washington.edu/HBCLS

Join us on Saturday May 13, 2017, for a one-day symposium centered around the topic of urban homelessness, hosted by student-led group Design Justice Seattle.

What are the missing links that designers need to address when engaging with place-making, affordability, and social justice? How can we challenge stigmas and assumptions about homelessness? What actions could be effective and what could be detrimental? At what scales, in which locations, and on whose timeline?

A morning panel will include voices from people who have experienced or are experiencing homelessness, and professionals in architecture, housing development, public health, sociology, and urban planning. Lunch will be provided courtesy of Urban@UW. An afternoon charrette will serve as a platform for those interested in shaping the conversation to develop questions, challenge stigmas, and formulate responses that inform designers of the urban built environment. The deliverable, in the form of developing a framework for a design competition on urban homelessness, will work to carry this conversation forward as a living collection of questions and considerations intent on better informing the process of equitable design.

Our aim is to close the gap between existing knowledge and our city’s future urban dynamics. We believe that better practice will result from a collaborative and interdisciplinary approach that strengthens the link between scholarship, research, and professional experience. Please join us for a day of crafting an integrated body of ideas that aims to shape Seattle’s evolution into a more livable city.

 

Links to the event Facebook page, and registration form. Hope you can make it!

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